our
repeated engagements of the twenty-sixth of last month, and that you
will listen to no treaty in which I am not comprehended."]

[Footnote 438: Note 3 M, p. 438. It was enacted, That every person
subscribing for five hundred pounds, should be entitled to four hundred
and fifty in annuities, and fifty pounds in lottery tickets, and so in
proportion for a greater or lesser sum; that the lottery should
consist of tickets of the value of ten pounds each, in a proportion not
exceeding eight blanks to a prize; the blanks to be of the value of six
pounds each; the blanks and prizes to bear an interest after the rate
of three pounds per cent., to commence from the first day of January, in
the year one thousand seven hundred and fifty-nine; and that the sum of
four millions five hundred thousand pounds, to be raised by annuities,
should bear an interest after the rate of three pounds ten shillings
percent, from the fifth day of July in the present year; which annuities
should stand reduced to three pounds per cent, after the expiration
of twenty-four years, and afterwards he redeemable in the whole, or in
part, by sums not less than five hundred thousand pounds, at one
time: six months' notice having been first given of such payments
respectively; that any subscriber might, on or before the twenty-ninth
day of April, make a deposit of ten pounds per cent, on such sums as he
should choose to subscribe towards raising these five millions, with the
cashiers of the bank, as a security for his future payments on the days
appointed for that purpose; that the several sums so received by the
cashiers should be paid into the receipt of the exchequer, to be applied
from time to time to such services as should then have been voted by the
house of commons in this session of parliament, and not otherwise;
that any subscriber, paying the whole or any part of his subscription
previous to the clays appointed for the respective payments, should be
allowed a discount at the rate of three per cent, from the days of such
respective payments to the respective times on which such payments were
directed to be made, and that all persons who should make their full
payments on the said lottery, should receive their tickets as soon as
they could be conveniently made out.]

[Footnote 440: Note 3 N, p. 440. Among those rendered perpetual, we
find an act of the 13th and 14th of Charles II. for preventing theft and
rapine. An act of the 9th of George