[1] The third charter to the Virginia Company, granted March 12, 1612,
contained four clauses, sections xvi-xix, regarding the conduct of
lotteries (Brown's _Genesis of the United States_, ii, 552).
[2] The Privy Council, upon complaint of the House of Commons, took
action regarding the suspension of lotteries in Virginia on March
4, 1621 (_Acts of Privy Council, Colonial_, i, 39). For the general
subject of lotteries in Virginia, see Bruce, _Economic History of
Virginia_, ii, 275; Kingsbury, _Records of Virginia Company_, i,
93; Brown, _Genesis of the United States_, index; and Brown, _First
Republic in America_, index. In the last reference, p. 394, this
proclamation is incorrectly dated March 18. The proclamation is
reproduced in fac-simile in _Three Proclamations concerning the Lottery
for Virginia_, published by the John Carter Brown Library, Providence,
R. I., 1907, in which volume are also reproduced a broadside of 1613
issued by the Council for Virginia regarding the drawing of the lottery
and "A Declaration for the certaine time of drawing the great standing
Lottery," printed February 22, 1615 [-16].
1622, November 6.
[Prohibiting Disorderly Trading to New England.]