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1. The rate of passage has been fixed,
   until further notice, at £16 per statute
   adult—i.e, for each person of twelve years
   old and upwards.

2. Each applicant will be required to
   pay one-half of the above amount at the
   time of making the application. Children
   between the ages of one and twelve years
   will be berthed and provisioned as equal
   to half an adult, but only one-half of the pay-
   ment for an adult will be charged, or £4
   each. Infants in arms, under one year
   free. This rate being from London to
   Marlborough only, the cost of reaching
   London and proceeding up the country
   after arrival in Marlborough will have to be
   defrayed by the Immigrants themselves.

3. As a rule, no unmarried females can
   be provided with passages under the Regulations, except they accompany and are under
   the care of some specified relative or friend.
   Passages for unmarried females not so accom-
   pained can only be granted subject to
   the Agent-General in London being able
   to make suitable provision for oversight
   during the voyage.

4. In the event of any Immigrants applied
   for declining to immigrate, whatever
   money may have been deposited with the
   Government will be returned so soon as the
   Agent-General in London shall have
   apprised the Government thereof; but in
   the event of any Immigrants applied for
   accepting the offer of a passage in a parti-
   cular ship, and so, by failing to present
   themselves for embarkation at the time and
   place appointed by the Agent-General in
   London for the sailing of such ship, be left
   behind, the passage money and passages
   will be forfeited.

5. All the ships employed in this service
   will be under the provisions of the “Pas-
   senger Act.”

6. Notwithstanding anything herein to
   the contrary, the Agent-General in Eng-
   land will have power to refuse passages
   where the intending Immigrants are in ill
   health or in any way unfitted, according to
   his judgment, to undertake the voyage.

7. Applications for passages are to be
   addressed to the Provincial Secretary, Blen-
   heim, in the following form, viz:—

I, the undersigned, hereby apply for the
passage to Marlborough, under the Regula-
tions of 4th September, 1871, of

Name
Age
Calling
Address in full ..............................

for which I herewith pay the sum of
being equal to
adults at £8 per
adult, and hereby agree to receive the Immi-
grants above named immediately on their
arrival in Marlborough.

Dated at this day of 1871.
(Signature and address of Applicant.)

Given under the hand of His Excel-
lency Sir George Ferguson
Bowen Knight Grand Cross of the
Most Distinguished Order of Saint
Michael and Saint George, Governor
and Commander-in-Chief, in and
over Her Majesty’s Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies, and
Vice Admiral of the same; and
issued at Wellington this fourth day
of September in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-one.

W. GISBORNE.

PROCLAMATION.

BY His Honor ARTHUR PENROSE SEYMOUR,
Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of
Marlborough, in the Colony of New Zealand.

WHEREAS, by an Act of the General As-
sembly of New Zealand, intituled “The
Provincial Reserved Bills Act, 1858,” it is en-
acted that whenever any Bill shall have passed
the Provincial Council of any Province, and shall
have been reserved for the signification of the
Governor’s pleasure thereon, such Bill shall not
have any force or authority within the said Pro-
vince, until the Superintendent shall signify either
by speech or message to the Provincial Council, or
by proclamation in the Government Gazette of
the said Province, that such Bill has been laid
before the Governor, and that the Governor has
assented to the same.

And whereas the following Bills intituled respec-
tively—

“The Superintendent’s Lands Alienation Act,
1871,” and
“The Scab Act, 1871,”

were passed by the Provincial Council of the
Province of Marlborough, but were reserved for
the signification of the Governor’s pleasure there-
on:

Now, therefore, I, ARTHUR PENROSE SEYMOUR,
the Superintendent of the said Province of Marl-
borough, do hereby proclaim and declare that the
above-mentioned Bills, having been duly laid
before His Excellency the Governor, and the
Governor having assented to the same, will be under
the provisions of the said recited Act of the
General Assembly, in full force and authority
within the Province of Marlborough from the date
of the publication of this Proclamation.

Given under my hand at Wellington, and
issued under the seal of the Province of
Marlborough, at Blenheim, this fourteenth
day of September, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-one.

A. P. SEYMOUR,
Superintendent.

By His Honor’s command,
JAMES S. BARKER WEBB,
Provincial Secretary.

ERRATA.

In the Gazette No. 218, for “District of Pe-
lrous Valley, section 26,” read “District of Upper
Pelorus Valley, Part 2 of section 26.”

Printed for the Provincial Government
by T. W. Millington, Redwood-street, Blenheim,
Government Printer for the time being to such Government.