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Constitutional Convention Commission (Committee Hearings, Testimony)
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buildings, this building wasn't built by lottery but

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the original buildings of University of Maryland were

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built by lottery. The Cathedral, deepening of the

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Jones Falls, Washington College, First Presbyterian

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Church, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Baltimore Hospital,

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Washington Monument — I still have an authentic ticket

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on that lottery on the Washington Monument in my file.

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Lexington Market, Susquehanna Canal, German Reform

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Church, hall for the Masonic Lodge. Of course, a number

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of places of learning throughout the country were built

   

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by lotteries. Harvard, Princeton, Dartmouth, Columbia,

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Brown, Dickinson, Rutgers , St. Johns Union, William and

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Mary, Yale, University of Delaware, University of

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Pennsylvania, all original buildings built by lotteries.

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Benjamin Franklin sponsored a lottery to buy a cannon

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for Philadelphia. George Washington ran a lottery to

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finance the building of a road over the Cumberland

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Mountains .

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You see we have had some very good purposes

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served by the lottery in the past as well as having had

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certain abuses .



 

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