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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

settlements for any such Immigrants any lands which
he may acquire from any Province under the pro-
visions 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 Thomas Bannatyne Gillies,
Esq., the Superintendent of the Province of Auckland,
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 com-
pliance with the request of the said Superintendent,
do hereby make the following Regulations, that is to
say:-

REGULATIONS FOR THE INTRODUCTION OF ASSISTED
IMMIGRANTS INTO THE PROVINCE OF AUCKLAND.

ANY person residing in Europe desirous of obtaining
an assisted passage to the Province of Auckland in
vessels under contract to proceed to any port of that
Province, may receive assistance on the following
terms:-

1. The Government will afford to small farmers
   and agricultural labourers assistance equal in amount
   to one-half the passage money.

2. Assisted passages will be granted to such
   persons only as shall be approved by the Agent-
   General of the Colony in England, acting under
   instructions from the Colonial Government.

3. No single man above the age of 50 years, and
   no person above 60 years of age, shall under any
   circumstances receive an assisted passage.

4. All persons desirous of obtaining assisted
   passages must satisfy the Agent-General that they
   are in good health and bear good characters.

5. Free passages will be provided for single women
   between the ages of 15 and 35, accustomed to
   domestic service, who shall produce satisfactory
   proof of good character.

6. In certain other cases free passages may be
   granted upon conditions, of which the Agent-General
   in England will from time to time be advised.

REGULATIONS FOR THE INTRODUCTION OF IMMI-
GRANTS INTO THE PROVINCE OF AUCKLAND
UPON THE NOMINATION OF PERSONS RESIDENT
THEREIN.

1. Any person resident in the Province of Auck-
   land desirous of nominating friends in Europe for
   passages to that Province, may do so on payment at
   the time of making such application of £7 10s. in
   respect of each adult male, of £5 in respect of each
   adult female, and of £3 for each child between the
   ages of 1 and 12 years. These rates include the
   passage from the port of embarkation to Auckland
   only; the cost of reaching such port must be
   deffrayed by the immigrants themselves.

2. Free passages may be granted upon application
   by friends in the Province to single women between
   the ages of 15 and 35, accustomed to domestic
   service, and able to produce satisfactory proof of
   good character to the Agent-General in London.

3. In the event of any immigrants applied for
   declining to immigrate whatever money may have
   been deposited on their account with the Govern-
   ment will be returned so soon as the Agent-General
   shall have apprised the Government of such refusal.
   But in the event of any immigrants applied for
   and failing to embark at the time and place appointed

by the Agent-General in England for the sailing of
such ship, or inform him in good time of their
inability to do so, their passage money will be
forfeited.

4. All the ships employed in this service shall be
   under the provisions of the Passenger Act.

5. In all cases the Agent-General shall have the
   power to refuse passages where the intending immi-
   grants are in ill health, or unfitted, in his judgment,
   to undertake the voyage, provided that in such cases
   all deposits shall be repaid.

6. Applications for passages must be addressed to
   the Provincial Secretary, Auckland, in the following
   form, viz.:-

I, the undersigned, hereby apply for the passage to
Auckland under the Regulations of
1871, of
day of

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

for which I herewith pay the sum of £
, being
equal to adults at £7 10s. per adult male, £5
per adult female, and £3 for each child under 12
years of age, and hereby agree to receive the said
immigrants immediately on their arrival in Auckland.

Dated at
, this
day of
, 1871.

[Signature and Address of Applicant.]

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
seventh day of October, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-one.

W. GISBORNE.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

IN exercise of the powers and authorities vested in
me by "The Diseased Cattle Act Amendment
Act, 1865," I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the
Governor of New Zealand, do hereby assent to the
regulations and prohibitory declarations contained in
a Proclamation issued by Arthur Penrose Seymour,
Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Marl-
borough, dated the eighteenth day of September,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, and
published in the New Zealand Gazette on the sixth
day of October, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-one.

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, at the Government
House at Wellington, this ninth day
of October, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 10th October, 1871.

IT is hereby notified that, in conformity with clause
three of "The Otago Municipal Corporation
Empowering Act, 1865," the name of the under-men-