days after the drawing shall be completed; and all other Prizes in sixty days, and payment will be made in bills generally current in Boston.  Prizes must be demanded in one year from the end of the drawing of the Class.

This Class will commence drawing in Boston, on the 12th
December next.

Tickets to be returned on or before the 2d December.

BENJAMIN WELD,
WILLIAM A. KENT,
ANDREW SIGOURNEY,

Boston, Nov. 8, 1814. Managers.

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After lotteries had been drawn, notices frequently appeared in the papers announcing the names of the lucky prize-winners.  For instance, a Boston paper of 1790 says:  “The highest Prize (L3,000) in the New York Lottery was drawn by 2 deserving Servant girls of New York;” and in Sept. 21, 1793:  “The highest prize in the 4th Class of the State Lottery ($1,000) was drawn by Mr. Benjamin Blodgett, of this town;” and the “Salem Gazette” of 1815 says:  “Luther Martin, Esq., has drawn $15,000, the Highest prize in the Baltimore Hospital Lottery;” and it adds:  “Those who envy the good Fortune of Mr. Martin will call on Cushing & Appleton for Tickets in the Harvard College Lottery.”  In November, 1790, the “Salem Gazette” says that the call for tickets in the Massachusetts Semi-annual Lottery “has been so great in the other States that the Managers expect to draw much sooner than the time which was at first mentioned;” also that the tickets in the Marblehead Lottery are meeting with a rapid sale; and concludes that “this does not indicate a scarcity of Cash.”

Here are some curious advertisements:—­

From the “Columbian Centinel,” Boston, May 22, 1790.

WILLIAMSTOWN FREE SCHOOL LOTTERY.

We are authorised to assure the Publick, and we do assure them—­that the 7th Class of this Lottery will not only commence drawing on Monday next, but will positively be completed on Tuesday morning—­and a list of Prizes will be published in the CENTINEL the same week.

The metropolis of Massachusetts hath ever been celebrated for the attention it hath paid to the education of its youth.  In the elder world, a FRANKLIN hath been a living testimony of it, as well as in the younger.  But not confined to the youth of the town is this benevolent disposition—­it extends to the remotest parts of the Commonwealth; and hath been abundantly manifested in the liberal encouragement given to the Williamstown Free-School Lottery.  The Class to be drawn on Monday next, will perhaps, be the last opportunity our citizens may have to gratify their humane wishes—­which they will not let pass unimproved, especially as great pecuniary profit may attend the gratification.

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“Salem Gazette,” Nov. 24, 1812.

GALVANISM.