Fifteen Per Cent Deduction from Bank Prize Payments
A deduction of fifteen percent will be taken from prizes and paid at the bank within fifty days after the drawing is finished.
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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jun 21, 1739
Page
3
A deduction of fifteen percent will be taken from prizes and paid at the bank within fifty days after the drawing is finished.
A Maldon Essex notice outlines two race purses on Potman Marsh on Wednesday July 18. First a twenty guinea purse for horses never having won twenty pounds, four laps around the course, with heats. Second, a forty guinea purse for galloways never having won twenty pounds, four laps, with weights, entries due a week before, penalties for distance, and decisions by Bailiffs.
Notices describe Wells Races postponed to the 18th and 19th with prior conditions unchanged, plus a detailed program at Hounslow Heath from July 11 to 14 featuring purses from Twenty to Thirty Pounds, weights, three heats, and entry fees. Also advertised are cockfighting at Three Pigeons, Winchester and Grantham races being delayed, a gold necklace reward, and several horse theft and prison escape notices with rewards.
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