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CHAPTER X. 



Betting. 



LOTTERIES DOUBLE LOTTERIES* PARI MUTUELS RACE POOLS. 



Lotteries. The number of tickets and their prices in 

 lotteries vary, though at the principal meetings they are 

 generally fixed at Rs. 100 and Rs. 10 respectively. 



The Honorary Secretary of the races, or other person 

 appointed to manage the lotteries, should, on commenc- 

 ing, first write down the tickets taken by single indivi- 

 duals, and then those taken conjointly ; the practice being 

 to throw with dice for tickets, the loser paying for them, 

 though both he and the winner of the toss equally share 

 the amount obtained for any horse, which any of their 

 tickets may draw. Not until all the tickets, that can be 

 disposed of conjointly, are written down, should sweeps 

 be allowed to take place, as they are a last resource to 

 fill up a lottery paper : for somehow or other, people 

 will rarely take tickets, either on their own account or 

 conjointly, after sweeps have commenced. A lottery 

 should be made out on a large sheet of foolscap. Gener- 

 ally on the first and part of the second page the tickets 

 are written down. At the end of the second page there 

 is a form for recording the result of the drawing, and on 

 the third, one for showing the debit and credit of each 

 person may be given. 



I will now give an illustrative lottery paper for a race 



