5.  Lotteries for the benefit of counties.

1796. c. 78.  To authorize a lottery in the county of Shenandoah. c. 84.  To authorize a lottery in the county of Gloucester.

6.  Lotteries for the benefit of towns.

1782. c. 31.  Richmond, for a bridge over Shockoe, amount not limited.

1789. c. 75.  Alexandria, to pave its streets, L1500.

1790. c. 46. do. do.  L5000. 1796. c. 79.  Norfolk, one or more lotteries authorized., c. 81.  Petersburg, a lottery authorized.

1803. c. 12.  Woodstock, a lottery authorized c. 48.  Fredericksburg, for improving its main street. c. 73.  Harrisonburg, for improving its streets.

7.  Lotteries for religious congregations.

1785. c.lll.  Completing a church in Winchester.  For rebuilding a church in the parish of Elizabeth River.

1791. c. 69.  For the benefit of the Episcopal society.

1790. c. 46.  For building a church in Warminster, L200. in Halifax, L200. in Alexandria, L500. in Petersburg, L750. in Shepherdstown, L250.

8.  Lotteries for private societies.

1790. c. 46.  For the Amicable Society in Richmond, L1000.

1791. c. 70.  For building a Freemason’s hall in Charlotte, L750.

9.  Lotteries for the benefit of private individuals. [To raise money for them.]

1796. c. 80.  For the sufferers by fire in the town of Lexington.

1781. c. 6.  For completing titles under Byrd’s lottery.

1790. c. 46.  To erect a paper-mill in Staunton, L300.  To raise L2000 for Nathaniel Twining.

1791. c. 13.  To raise L4000 for William Tatham, to enable him to
complete his geographical work.  To enable---------to complete a literary
work.*

* I found such an act, but not noting it at the time, I have not been able to find it again.  But there is such an one.

We have seen, then, that every vocation in life is subject to the influence of chance; that so far from being rendered immoral by the admixture of that ingredient, were they abandoned on that account, man could no longer subsist; that, among them, every one has a natural right to choose that which he thinks most likely to give him comfortable subsistence; but that while the greater number of these pursuits are productive of something which adds to the necessaries and comforts of life, others again, such as cards, dice, &ic, are entirely unproductive, doing good to none, injury to many, yet so easy, and so seducing in practice to men of a certain constitution of mind, that they cannot resist the temptation, be the consequences what they may; that in this case, as in those of insanity, idiocy, infancy, &c, it is the duty of society to take them under its protection, even against their own acts, and to restrain their right of choice of these pursuits, by suppressing them entirely; that there are others, as lotteries particularly, which, although liable to chance also, are useful for many