Register of Pennsylvania Volume 14 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1835 Excerpt: ...granted to the Union Canal in 1811, has existed under different names and with various modifications since the year 1795. Though an act of assembly passed three years before, prohibited the sale of foreign lottery tickets under a severe pecuniary penalty, and the act of 1811 incorporating the Union Canal, greatly increased the forfeiture, yet the law, ever since its enactment, has been constantly infringed with ly an attempt at concealment. The continual augmentation of lottery offices in Philadelphia, illustrates the progressive character of the evil. In 1809 three offices only are recollected to have existed throughout the whole city; in 1827 the number was computed at sixty; in 1831 they were ascertained to amount to one hundred and seventy-seven; and now, in the year 1833, the number may be estimated at above two hundred. In these offices were vended, during the last year, tickets in four hundred and twenty schemes, whose prizes amount to 53,136,930 dollars, as may be seen by the subjoined tabular statement. Of these four hundred and twenty schemes, whose tickets have been constantly for sale in Philadelphia during and since the year 1832, all are expressly prohibited by law, except the twenty-six issued by the Union Canal. Thus the people of Pennsylvania have been made to contribute to the internal improvements of New York, Virginia, Connecticut, Khode Island, and North Carol.na, Maryland, and Delaware, as well as to pay a large sum to a Company of their own state, whose grant has expired. Nor are the other states in which there are large cities, exempt from similar burthens--each is tc.xed for the local convenience of the others, in proportion to the facilities presented for imposition. But Pennsylvania, by being the great mart for nearly all the lott...