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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

and marked No. 1; and the breadth of the said road
line is sixty-six feet, excepting part of the Weraroa
Road at Wairoa, where it is seventy-nine feet (more
or less), Bedford Street, through the township of
Carlyle, where it is ninety-nine feet (more or less),
and part of Taranaki Road before described, where it
is seventy-nine feet (more or less), and the estimated
length of the said road is fifty miles.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

WHEREAS by "The Immigration and Public
Works Act, 1870," it is among other things
enacted that the Governor may, at the request of
the Superintendent of any Province, from time to
time make regulations (as therein mentioned) for the
conduct of immigration under the said Act into such
Province, and for the nomination of Immigrants by
persons resident therein, and for the distribution of
funds provided by the said Act for Immigration pur-
poses, and for the introduction into and settlement
in such Province of Immigrants, and for selling as
special settlements for any such Immigrants any lands
which he may acquire from any Province under the
provisions therein contained, or any lands acquired
under "The New Zealand Settlements Act, 1863," or
the Acts amending the same, and for laying out and
allotting any lands so acquired amongst any such
Immigrants: And whereas William Fitzherbert, Esq.,
the Superintendent of the Province of Wellington,
hath requested me, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the
Governor of New Zealand, to make regulations
under the provisions of the said Act as and in man-
ner hereinafter set forth:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the
Governor of New Zealand, by virtue and in exercise
of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by
the forty-first section of "The Immigration and
Public Works Act, 1870," and of all other powers
and authorities enabling me in that behalf, and in
compliance with the request of the said Superinten-
dent, do hereby make the following Regulations, that
is to say :-

REGULATIONS FOR THE INTRODUCTION OF ASSISTED
IMMIGRANTS INTO THE PROVINCE OF WELLING-
TON.

ANY person residing in Europe desirous of obtaining
an assisted passage to the Province of Wellington in
vessels under contract to proceed to that Province,
may receive assistance as follows:-

1. The Government will grant passages on pay-
   ment to the Agent-General in London, before em-
   barkation, of the sum of five pounds for each adult of
   twelve years old and upwards; but where the in-
   tending immigrant is unable to pay the five pounds
   above mentioned, the Agent-General will have power
   to commute the cash payment into the giving a
   promissory note for seven pounds per adult; prefer-
   ence will, however, always be given to those who can
   pay the largest portion in cash. The promissory
   notes will be made payable on demand in the form
   printed below; but unless the immigrant dispute the
   debt or shall attempt to leave the Province, payment
   will only be required by such instalments as may be
   requisite to pay off the whole amount within twelve
   months after arrival.

(Stamp.)
FORM OF PROMISSORY NOTE.

[Place of making and date.]
£............
On demand I promise to pay to Her Majesty Queen Victoria,
in the Colony of New Zealand, the sum of pounds
shillings for value received.
[Signature of Maker] A.B.
Note. To be stamped and executed according to the English
law.

2. Children between one and twelve years, half
   price. Babies under twelve months, free.

3. Assisted passages will be afforded only to per-
   sons of the labouring class.

4. No person will be allowed any assistance unless
   he or she shall have been approved by the Agent-
   General in England.

5. No single man above the age of 45 years, no
   person above the age of 50 years unless a member of
   a large family, and no person above 60 under any
   circumstances, will be allowed assistance.

6. All persons receiving assistance must be of
   sound mind, good health, and good character.

7. Free passages will be provided for single women
   accustomed to domestic service who can bring satis-
   factory proof of good character, and who are between
   the ages of 15 and 35.

8. In certain other cases, with a view to the intro-
   duction of skilled labour in connection with capital
   for the establishment of woollen, linen, paper, or
   other manufactories, free passages will be given, of
   the conditions of which the Agent-General in Eng-
   land will from time to time be advised.

Given under the hand of His Excellency 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 third day of August,
in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-one.

W. GISBORNE.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

WHEREAS by the eighth of the Regulations
made under "The Lunatics Act, 1868," by
Order in Council on the fourth day of May, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy, and published
in the Gazette on the fifth day of the said month of
May, it is provided that every Registrar of the
Supreme Court shall, on the third Wednesday in the
months of March, June, September, and December
in every year, after the deduction of such moneys as
may be retained or expended by such Registrar
under the powers by law vested in him, pay or trans-
fer all surplus moneys in his hands on account of
any lunatic patient or his estate, or standing to the
credit of any such account as aforesaid, into the
Public Account; and the same shall be placed by the
Colonial Treasurer to the credit of the Public Trust
Fund, and be there kept as a separate account:

And whereas it may in some cases be expedient
that Registrars should be authorized to retain, at
the end of each of the quarters of the year specified
in the said Regulations, to the credit of their trust
accounts under the said Regulations, such amounts as
may be expected to be required for the discharge of
claims coming in course of payment shortly after
the commencement of the ensuing quarter:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in
exercise and pursuance of all powers and authorities
enabling him in this behalf, and by and with the
advice and consent of the Executive Council of New
Zealand, doth hereby make the following Regulation,
as additional to and to be read with and as part of
the said recited Regulations:-

REGULATION.

IX. If at any time within any of the said quarters
of a year, any Registrar shall be aware that payment
of any claims or demands against any lunatic's estate
will require to be made within the next quarter, and
if he shall make a report to that effect to the Colonial
Treasurer, and show that from the trifling amount of
such claims or demands or for any other reason it is
expedient that the Registrar should retain at his trust