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the bridge from Alexandria, Virginia, toward 5
Manassas, which served the Union forces well in p
the War between the States. Thomas Jefferson ’
intended to dispose of his library by lottery
if the Federal government did not buy it. Wil-
liam Henry Harrison headed the first lottery of
the Northwest Territory, that of 1807 for the
benefit of Vincennes College. Henry Clay lent
his name to the Grand Masonic Lodge lottery in .
Lexington in l81b.(3)
_ After the formation of the Union many States
legalized lotteries. But because of the ease`
with which duplicity and fraud could be--and
was--practiced in their administration, they
fell into bad odor. They reached the peak of  
their popularity in the United States in the 2
early Eighteen—thirties, when in nine States,
420 lottery drawings yielded $$3,136,930, New ,
York alone drawing $10,000,000. Then, in 1833, ,
New York passed an act suppressing lotteries; *
the same year saw the beginning of a movement 1
against them in Pennsylvania through an organ-
ized society whose activities were copied later
in other states.
Kentucky inherited a statute against lot- Q
teries from Virginia; but the custom was to l
make a grant of special privilege to anyone who
wanted it. The first year of statehood, 1792, 7
saw the extension of such a grant to John
Smith, Jasper Carsner, Martin Castle, and Jacob
Kiser, representatives of the Dutch Presby— ’
terian Society, to draw a lottery for raising I
$500 to build a church. When the movement to
y do away with lotteries began, Kentucky was
lukewarm to it, though lotteries were chartered ’
less frequently--or perhaps it would be more
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