otteries 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 purposes, and are
therefore retained and placed under the discretion of the legislature,
to be permitted or refused according to the circumstances of every
special case, of which they are to judge: that between the years 1782
and 1820, a space of thirty-eight years only, we have observed seventy
case's, where the permission of them has been found useful by the
legislature, some of which are in progress at this time. These cases
relate to the emolument of the whole State, to local benefits of
education, of navigation, of roads, of counties, towns, religious
assemblies, private societies, and of individuals under particular
circumstances which may claim indulgence or favor. The latter is the
case now submitted to the legislature, and the question is, whether the
individual soliciting