THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

5. No person above the age of 50 years, unless a
   member of a large family, 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 in-
   troduction of skilled labour in connection with
   capital for the establishment of woollen, linen,
   paper, or other manufactures, free passages will be
   given, of the conditions of which the Agent-General
   in London will from time to time be advised.

Regulations for the introduction of Immigrants into
the Province of Otago on the nomination of per-
sons resident therein.

1. Persons residing within the Province may obtain
   orders for passages from the United Kingdom to
   Otago for their friends or relatives on payment of
   £5 per statute adult; children over one year old,
   £2 10s.; and under one year, free; such payment
   to be made, accompanied by a written application
   in the following form, to the Provincial Treasurer,
   Dunedin; the Receivers of Land Revenue at In-
   vercargill, and of Gold Revenue at Queenstown,
   Arrowtown, Cromwell, Clyde, Alexandra, Naseby,
   St. Bathans, Roxburgh, Lawrence, Switzers, Hyde,
   Macraes; and the Collector of Customs at Oamaru,
   who will forward the applications from time to time
   to the Provincial Immigration Office at Dunedin.

2. Form of Application :-

I, the undersigned, hereby apply for a nominated
passage to Otago, under the Regulations of 25th
August, 1871, for

Name
Age
Calling
Address in full

for which I hereby pay the sum of £
being equal to adults at £5 per adult; and
hereby agree to receive the said Immigrants im-
mediately on arrival in the Province.

Dated at this day of
[Signature and address of Applicant.]

3. In the event of any Immigrant applied for as
   aforesaid declining to emigrate, whatever money
   may have been deposited with the Government will
   be returned, so soon as the Agent-General of the
   Colony, or the British Agent of the Province, shall
   have apprised the Government thereof. In the
   event, however, of any Immigrants applied for as
   aforesaid accepting the offer of a passage in a
   particular ship, and failing to present themselves at
   the time and place appointed for embarkation, the
   money deposited as aforesaid shall be forfeited.

4. The Agent-General of the Colony or the Agent
   of the Province in Scotland, acting under his
   direction, as the case may be, shall have power to
   refuse passages to any persons nominated as afore-
   said, in the event of the physical health or moral
   character of the person so nominated not being satis-
   factory to such Agents, in which case the money
   deposited shall be returned.

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 twenty-fifth day of
August, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.

W. GISBORNE.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

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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 the Honorable Arthur
Penrose Seymour, the Superintendent of the Pro-
vince of Marlborough, 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 manner 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 IMMI-
GRANTS INTO THE PROVINCE OF MARLBOROUGH,
ON THE NOMINATION OF PERSONS RESIDENT
THEREIN.

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 applica-
   tion. 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 payment 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 Marl-
   borough will have to be defrayed by the Immigrants
   themselves.

3. As a rule, no unmarried females can be provided
   with passages under these Regulations, except they
   accompany and are under the care of some specified
   relative or friend. Passages for unmarried females
   not so accompanied 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 particular 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 "Passenger Act."

6. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary,
   the Agent-General in England 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.