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Persons to whom such conveyances or assignments shall be made, shall be deemed creditors on such tills,
when there shall be a surplus of 1000l. received, the numbers of the securities and the sums shall be written on tickets, put into a box, and drawn as herein.
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XXXVIII. And be it enacted and declared by the authority aforesaid, That all persons to whom such conveyances or assignments shall be made, their executors, administrators, or assigns, shall be in proportion to the sums mentioned therein respectively, creditors on such tolls and duties, and shall be paid thereout by the said commissioners, or their successors, or any five or more of them, or by the persons so appointed by them, the annuity mentioned in such assignment or conveyance, and from and after the payment of the annuities therein mentioned, and as often as any surplus or exceeding of the said tolls or duties hereby appointed, shall be received by the said commissioners, or their successors, or any five or more of them, that such surplus or exceeding Shall amount to the sum of one thousand pounds, then the said commissioners, or their successors, or any five or more of them, shall cause the numbers of such securities, or so much thereof as shall remain unpaid, and the sums therein contained to be written on several tickets or pieces of parchment, and to be rolled and sewed up, and put into a box or urn, and well mixed together, and an indifferent person shall publickly, between the hours of twelve at noon and two in the afternoon of the day to be by the said commissioners, or their successors, or any five or more of them, publickly advertized in the news-papers of said city, at least twenty days before, at the council-chamber of said city, draw out of such box or urn, so many of the said tickets or pieces of parchment, as the films therein contained Shall amount to the sum of one thousand pounds.
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