"But in the proposed Plan, the Insurance Offices would have only six days and a half to one in their favour the first day; so that they must begin with a much higher premium than the generality of the common people can advance, which premium must each day be very considerably increased.--These considerations would undoubtedly operate as an absolute prohibition, on far the greatest part of Lottery Insurers; beside which, the great probability of numbers insured being drawn each day, would deter even the Office Keepers from venturing to insure so deeply, or extensively, as they have been accustomed to do. "Should it be objected, that if Insurance is thus abridged, or prohibited, tickets will not sell, and the Lottery, as a source of Revenue, must be abandoned: the following expedient may, it is apprehended, effectually obviate such an objection.-- "Let Tickets, which cannot now be legally divided below a sixteenth, be divisible down to a _Sixty-fourth_ share, properly stamped; which regulation, while it would greatly benefit and encourage Licensed Offices, would equally discountenance illegal Gamblers; and whilst it permitted to the lower orders of the Community a fair chance of an adventure in the Lottery on moderate terms, would co-operate with the restrictions on Insurance to advance the intrinsic value, as well as the price of tickets, which every illegal _Scheme_ evidently tends to depreciate." The preceding Plan appeared in the Appendix to the fifth edition of this Treatise; in consequence of which the Author received the following observations and which therefore he presents as-- PLAN II. "The Suggestions as far as they extend and relate to the shortening the duration of the drawing are highly useful, but they fall short of the object, and the Plan, if executed, would nearly prevent the sale of tickets, and totally so that of shares, and consequently abolish Lotteries altogether;--a consummation devoutly to be wished by every friend to the public, but under the pecuniary influences, which perhaps too much affect political considerations, little to be expected. "It will be necessary to exhibit only a plain Statement of the proportionate chances in the wheel during the 7-1/2 days of drawing on the Scheme of 50,000 Tickets, viz.-- _Prizes._ _Blanks._ 1st. Day 15,000 to 35,000 2-1/3 to a Prize 2d. --- 13,000 -- 35,000 3d. --- 11,000 -- 35,000 4th. --- 9,000 -- 35,000 5th. --- 7,000 -- 35,000 6th. --- 5,000 -- 35,000 7th. --- 3,000 -- 35,000 last. --- 1,000 -- 35,000 35 to a Prize.