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cial to the public--and the Proprietors, in this arduous undertaking, have to cut through an entire mass of rocks for _three_ miles! Laudable and praise-worthy perseverance! Tickets for sale by GILBERT & DEAN, MAGAZINE and LOTTERY OFFICE, No. 56, _State-Street,_ where a correct list of all the prizes and blanks will be exhibited, during the drawing. _May 25, 1803._ * * * * * In the "Salem Gazette" will be found the advertisements of two of the College Lotteries. Rhode Island College is now Brown University. * * * * * _R. Island College Lottery._ THE Corporation of the College, wishing to discharge in the best manner the trusts reposed in them for the education of youth, and finding their funds inadequate to this purpose, have obtained of the General Assembly of the state of _Rhode-Island_ and _Providence Plantations_ the grant of a Lottery. As the sole object of this is the public good, it is hoped that the exertions of the Corporation will meet the wishes and secure the co-operation of all the friends of science and virtue. The College was founded entirely by the generosity of individuals. Though it has received no patronage from the legislative body, yet through the assiduous labours of its officers it has become considerably distinguished, &, it is hoped, has merited the attention of the public. It, however, is under great disadvantages for want of larger pecuniary resources. Of the necessity of these for the establishment of a complete system of liberal education, every one must be sensible who entertains a just conception of the vast extent of science.--Those who are disposed to promote the Lottery now brought forward, may be assured that the whole business will be transacted with the utmost exactitude and fidelity. Of this they cannot doubt, when they are informed that the management of it is wholly under the direction of the following respectable Committee, appointed by the Corporation, viz. JOHN BROWN, Esq. WELCOME ARNOLD, Esq. Mr. JOHN MASON, Col. WILLIAM RUSSELL, and Mr. JOHN P. IVES. The Subscribers, being appointed by the Committee as Managers of the Lottery, and having given bonds according to law, now offer to the public the following
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