Section 2

Section 2. Be it enacted, by the Representatives of the Freemen of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, and by the authority of the same, That from and after the time assigned for opening the said Land-Office, as aforesaid, until the end of the tenth day thereafter, being the eleventh day of the month, the Secretary of the Land-Office, upon the whole of the purchase money being deposited in the hands of the Receiver-General of the Land-Office, and not otherwise, and upon acquittance for the same being shown to the said Secretary, he shall receive and file all applications made to him for lands within the said late purchase, not exceeding one thousand acres in one application, numbering them, respectively, from number one, after the common progression, to the last which shall be received within the same ten days; and every such application shall set forth, in words at length, and not in figures only, the number of acres asked by each applicant respectively; after which the said Secretary shall proceed to enter all such applications, and to make a fair and accurate list thereof, and, upon each application so entered, shall issue a warrant for such quantity as is contained in the application respectively, provided the same does not exceed one thousand acres, to the person entitled to the same, giving preference and priority of number to him to whom such preference and priority shall fall upon a fair lottery, to be made by the said secretary as hereinafter directed; and so to the next in order, until a warrant be issued upon every of the said applications, according to their preference and order, to be adjusted as aforesaid: And the said lottery shall be formed and conducted in manner following, that is to say; the name of the first applicant, together with the number of acres applied for by such person, shall be written on an oblong piece of paper, as nearly as may be of the breadth of two inches, and of the length of three inches, and the said piece of paper or ticket shall be closely rolled up and bound, and then put within a lottery wheel; and in the like manner the name of the second applicant, and so of the third and the rest of the same tickets, in their order, till every of the applications so received, as aforesaid, being first severally rolled of equal size and shape, shall be put within the same wheel; and then other tickets, on each whereof shall be written a distinct number, beginning with number one, and proceeding, by the common arithmetical progression, till on the last thereof there be written the last or highest number of the said applications; which last mentioned papers or tickets, being first rolled up and bound in equal size and form with each other, shall be put within another lottery wheel; and after the said two kinds of tickets shall be disposed of, as above directed, within their respective wheels, the same wheels shall be turned about so many times, as to shake and intermix the respective tickets in each wheel; which being done, the same tickets shall be deliberately and singly drawn, one out of each wheel at a time, in the manner of a lottery; and the number first drawn out of the last mentioned wheel shall be considered as the number of the application to be drawn at the same time out of the other wheel, and as such shall be marked in the aforesaid list, over against the same application, and so of the second and third drawn, and of the rest thereof, until all of the said tickets be drawn as aforesaid: And the warrants to be issued on the said applications shall severally be numbered according to the decision of the said lottery, and shall bear date on the day in which the drawing thereof shall be finished: And all applications to the said Land-Office, which shall be made after the expiration of the said ten days, for lands within the said late purchase, being made as above directed, shall have priority according to the order in which they shall severally come to the hands of the said Secretary, and shall be numbered accordingly, and not otherwise; and all warrants for land within the said late purchase, as well those, the priority of which shall depend upon the said lottery, as others, shall be made out in their proper order as aforesaid, upon payment of the legal fees, by the person who shall produce the acquittance of the said Receiver-General for the purchase money, as soon as conveniently may be, without any needless delay, and without partiality.