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<HEAD><HI>ARTICLES</HI> E&s;tabli&s;hed by <HI>Alexander Hamilton,</HI> formerly Merchant in <HI>Rouen</HI> in <HI>France,</HI> now in <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and his Part|ners, in the Erecting in the &s;aid City, a profitable Adven|ture for the Fortunat, of Fifty Thou&s;and Tickets, of Half a Crown each.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub"><DATE><HI>December</HI> 9. 1698.</DATE></HEAD>
<P>IN Imitation of that Adventure of 25 Thou&s;and <HI>lib &s;terl.</HI> con&s;i&s;ting of 50 Thou|&s;and Tickets, at 10 <HI>&s;hillings Sterl.</HI> each, lately erected and fini&s;hed at <HI>London,</HI> by E&s;quire <HI>Neal</HI> the Groom-Porter with &s;o great Applau&s;e; but without the po&s;|&s;ibility of more than an fourth Part of his profit becau&s;e the Sum here propo&s;ed, is but 25 Thou&s;and Crowns, con&s;i&s;ting of 50 Thou&s;and Tickets, at half a Crown each: con&s;idering the Charges and Pains in managing, are much the &s;ame <HI>Alexander Ha|milton</HI> and his Partners, at the &s;pecial Reque&s;t and De&s;ire of many eminent Per&s;ons &s;o fond of the Matter, (that they return Money to <HI>London</HI> to Inve&s;t in tho&s;e Tickets, which would never be done, if it might be on the &s;ame terms done here) do in the &s;ame manner&punc; propo&s;e the giving out 50 Thou&s;and Tickets, at <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI><ABBR>&s;h.</ABBR></HI> 6. <HI><ABBR>d.</ABBR> per</HI> Ticket, which he will begin to do on <HI>Thur&s;day</HI> the 14 In&s;tant, at the Old Po&s;t-Office, on the north &s;ide of the Street a <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 words"> the Cro&s;s&punc; where the Ad|venturers &s;hall be attended every Work day, from 8 in the Morning to 4 a Clock at Night: And its hoped all the Tickets may be di&s;tributed again&s;t the Fir&s;t of <HI>March</HI> 1694. At which time, it is here propo&s;ed to begin to draw at <HI>Alexander Crombies</HI> Great-room, oppo&s;ite to the Entry to the Parliament Clo&s;s, and to continue dayly and publickly with the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of the Over&s;eers, till ended.</P>
<P>And if in the above mentioned time the whole number of Tickets be not compleated, the draught &s;hall yet be made for tho&s;e that have put in, and the Benefits proportioned to the number of Tickets, of which (by the Over&s;eers) a diligent Calculate &s;hall be made.</P>
<P>Otherways, the day of Drawing &s;hall be adjourned for &s;ome &s;hort time, as the Over&s;eers &s;hall think fit, which &s;hall be publi&s;hed by a Placard.</P>
<P>Now to an&s;wer the 25 Thou&s;and Crown<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;o to be taken, for 50 Thou&s;and Tickets to be given out at <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI><ABBR>&s;h.</ABBR></HI> 6. <HI><ABBR>d.</ABBR> &s;terl.</HI> a piece. There will be 250 benefited Tick|ets, to make up the &s;aid 25 Thou&s;and Crowns, abating 10 <HI>per Cent.</HI> only, to be allow|ed for the trouble and Charge; and as &s;oon as the 50 Thou&s;and Tickets are given out and compleated, the Over&s;eers after-named &s;hall Meet, and call for the Books, and &s;ee all the Money &s;o placed, as to be ready to be payed on demand, to &s;uch per&s;ons or their lawful Repre&s;entatives, as &s;hall pre&s;ent the benefited Tickets.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>The Benefited Tickets are to be</HI> To be payed in ready Money, when required, without any Rebate what&s;oever.</HEAD>
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<CELL>1 Ticket of</CELL>
<CELL>3000 Crown<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"></CELL>
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<CELL>1 of</CELL>
<CELL>2500</CELL>
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<CELL>1 of</CELL>
<CELL>2000</CELL>
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<CELL>1 of</CELL>
<CELL>1500.</CELL>
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<CELL>1 of</CELL>
<CELL>1000.</CELL>
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<CELL>1 of</CELL>
<CELL>500.</CELL>
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<CELL>1 of</CELL>
<CELL>300.</CELL>
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<CELL>1 of</CELL>
<CELL>200.</CELL>
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<CELL>2 of 150 Crowns each</CELL>
<CELL>300</CELL>
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<CELL>50 of 100 Crowns each</CELL>
<CELL>5000.</CELL>
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<CELL>40 of 50 Crowns each</CELL>
<CELL>2000.</CELL>
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<CELL>50 of 40 Crowns each</CELL>
<CELL>2000.</CELL>
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<CELL>100 of 20 Crowns each</CELL>
<CELL>2000.</CELL>
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<CELL>And to the fir&s;t Ticket, whether benefited or not, that &s;hall be drawn be&s;ides the Benefite that may come out with it.</CELL>
<CELL>100.</CELL>
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<CELL>And to the fir&s;t Per&s;on who&s;e Ticket &s;hall be drawn next after all the Benefited Tickets are taken out.</CELL>
<CELL>100.</CELL>
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<P>And if it &s;hould happen that the la&s;t Benefited Ticket &s;hould be the la&s;t drawn, the &s;aid 100 Crowns &s;hall be payed, be&s;ides what may come by the &s;aid benefited Ticket.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>ANd to farther explain the Practical part of this matter,</HI> Nota, <HI>Books will be purpo&s;ly Printed, with Red Rules, containing the whole Number of Tickets, and of the&s;e, three of each &s;ort (as here under-de&s;cribed) ju&s;t Marked and Numbered alike.</HI></HEAD>
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<CELL>NO. 1. With the Adventurers Name, or any other Mark he de&s;ires to be put.</CELL>
<CELL>NO. 1.</CELL>
<CELL>NO. 1.</CELL>
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<CELL>NO. 2.</CELL>
<CELL>NO. 2.</CELL>
<CELL>NO. 2.</CELL>
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<P>From which Books, the outtermo&s;t Ticket &s;igned by <HI>Alexander Hamilton</HI> the Undertaker, &s;hall be fir&s;t cut, and given to the Per&s;on that &s;o pays the half Crown for it; the next, which will be ju&s;t like the Ticket given out, is to be cut, and put into a &s;trong Box, whence it is to be drawn: then the third, ju&s;t
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the &s;ame with the other two, will remain &s;till in the &s;aid Book. So that to whoe|ver Chance gives a Ticket that Intitles him to a Benefit, mu&s;t bring or &s;end the &s;aid Ticket to the place where the &s;ame &s;hall be drawn, and there it mu&s;t an&s;wer (to prevent all mi&s;takes) the Ticket of the &s;ame Number drawn, which will likewi&s;e an&s;wer that that's left in the Book, and it &s;o appearing to do, the Benefit forthwith to be delivered.</P>
<P>And now the better to demon&s;trat how this is to be drawn and done.</P>
<P><HI>Note;</HI> All Tickets in the &s;econd place to cut out of the Book as afore&s;aid, ju&s;t numbred and marked like tho&s;e given out, are in pre&s;ence of the Managers and Over&s;eers after-named, to be put up into a large Gla&s;s, to be Sealed and Lockt up in a &s;trong Box, and there Jumbled together, and kept &s;o Lockt up, till its drawn. And the Blanks with the 250 benefited Tickets, making together 50 Thou&s;and; In like manner, in the pre&s;ence of the &s;aid Managers, are to be put into another &s;uch Gla&s;s, to be al&s;o Sealed up and Lockt in another &s;trong Box, and there &s;o to remain till drawn out, which is to be done thus.</P>
<P>An Oval Table is to be &s;et in <HI>Alexander Crombies</HI> Great Room afore&s;aid; round which, the Managers and Clerks in Order are to &s;it. And at one end &s;hall be placed the Box wherein are the Tickets &s;o numbred and markt as afore&s;aid; and at the other end of the Table, the other &s;uch Box wherein are the benefited Tickets and Blanks; out of both which, one by one (by &s;ome Strangers) they are all to be drawn.</P>
<P>The numbred Tickets as afore&s;aid, being put in one Gla&s;s, and the Blanks and Benefited in another; The &s;aid Gla&s;&s;es &s;ealed up: Ju&s;t before the Tickets are going to be drawn, &s;hall be taken out of the &s;trong Boxes, and &s;hewed to the Company pre&s;ent, with the Numbred Tickets, Blanks, and benefited Tickets in them; And be then &s;haked and jumbled together, that there may be no placing of either, which Gla&s;&s;es, &s;hall again afterwards be placed in the &s;trong Boxes, from whence all &s;hall be drawn.</P>
<P><HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> From among the Tickets &s;o Numbred and Marked&punc; One &s;hall be drawn, and before it be opened, or known what Number it is, another &s;hall be drawn for it, out of the Blank and benefited Tickets; And if it prove a Blank, it &s;hal be noted down on a Book, kept for that purpo&s;e, to the end every per&s;on at his plea&s;ure, may know if his Ticket be yet drawn: But if it does prove a benefi|ted Ticket, that and the Numbred Ticket &s;hall be both filled up together, (but &s;hall be fir&s;t Noted by the Clerk, with the &s;aid numbered Ticket, at the &s;ame time drawn, in a Book kept a-part for that purpo&s;e) which Note &s;hall be un|derwrit by two of the Over&s;eers then pre&s;ent; the &s;aid Book to be kept, and &s;hewed in publick and private, and Printed, as &s;oon as all the Tickets are drawn out, that all Per&s;ons may &s;ee, to what Number each Benefit doth belong, and &s;o accordingly come for the &s;ame: And all this, to prevent mi&s;takes as afore|&s;aid, and that no po&s;&s;ible &s;u&s;picion may remain, of any foul Play in this thing.</P>
<P>In &s;hort, whoever is any way po&s;&s;e&s;t of any one of the&s;e numbered Tickets, &s;o Signed by <HI>Alexander Hamilton</HI> the Undertaker afore&s;aid, will this way be certain, that another &s;uch Ticket, &s;o numbered and marked, as that he is po&s;&s;e&s;t of, &s;hall for him be put in, and drawn, at this adventure, in pre&s;ence of the Man|nagers: Where, whether ab&s;ent or pre&s;ent, he will have an equal &s;hare with the re&s;t, for the Benefits propo&s;ed; and be &s;ure, that what Sum of Money &s;oever, good Fortune this way &s;hall de&s;ign him, on production of his Ticket, that Intitles him to it, &s;hall forthwith be paid at demand, free from all charge, or any de|duction whatever.</P>
<P><PB N="4" REF="3">And that all po&s;&s;ible fairne&s;s in &s;eeing the numbered benefited and blank Tickets, duely put in, and duely drawn out, as they ought, and very other thing right done, which ought to be done in this ca&s;e: The Vi&s;count of <HI>Terbat,</HI> Lord Regi&s;ter, and the Lord <HI>Beilhaven,</HI> both Lords of Their Maje&s;ties Privy Council, Sir <HI>Thomas Living&s;taun</HI> Major-General of Their Ma|je&s;ties Forces, and Commander in Chief in <HI>Scotland; Patrick Halyburton</HI> and <HI>William M<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">inzies,</HI> pre&s;ent Magi&s;trats of the City; Collonel <HI>Richard Cunning|hame,</HI> Sir <HI>James Dick</HI> of <HI>Prie&s;t-field,</HI> and <HI>Edward Marjaribanks,</HI> Merchants in the City: All Per&s;ons, who have no intere&s;t in Co-partnery, or otherways, with the Undertaker &punc; Have been reque&s;ted, and have undertaken to be Over|&s;eers, Directors, and Managers of the whole Affair, in which, there is nothing to be ordered, or done, without the Concurrence of three at lea&s;t of the Per&s;ons before-named; &s;o that there will be no room left, to doubt of ju&s;tne&s;s and fair|ne&s;s, throughout the whole mannaging of it; And nothing ever like this was, at &s;o &s;mall advantage, propo&s;ed.</P>
<P>And la&s;tly, That tho&s;e to whom Fortune di&s;pen&s;es the&s;e benefited Tickets, whether ab&s;ent, or pre&s;ent, may be certainly &s;ure to have the Money <HI>in &s;pecie,</HI> as herein above-expre&s;t. The &s;aid <HI>Alexander Hamilton</HI> the Undertaker, with <HI>Archibald Hamilton</HI> and <HI>James Grahame</HI> Merchants, as Sureties for him, have Sub&s;cribed a Bond to that purpo&s;e; and Con&s;igned it in the Hands of the Over|&s;eers above-named, to ly depo&s;itate for the behove of the Adventurers.</P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE>the &s;eventh Day of <HI>December</HI> 1693.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>UPon a Petition given in by <HI>Alexander Hamilton,</HI> Undertaker afore&s;aid, To the Right Honourable the Lords of Their Maje&s;ties Privy Council, Their Lord&s;hips, by their Act of the date fore&s;aid, have Di&s;charged any other Per&s;on or Per|&s;ons then the &s;aid <HI>Alexander Hamilton,</HI> to undertake the above Bank, or profitable Adventure for the Fortunat, for the &s;pace of Six Months after the Date of the &s;aid Act of Privy Council.</P>
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