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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

being a member of the family, brought out under
their protection.
4. Every adult emigrant will be required, before
embarkation, to pay to the Agent-General 20s. (and
children in proportion), for bedding, blankets, and
mess utensils.
5. In the event of any emigrant applied for declin-
ing to emigrate, whatever money or bills may have
been deposited with the Government will be returned
to the applicant so soon as the Agent-General shall
have apprised the Government thereof; but in the
event of any emigrant applied for accepting the offer
of a passage in a particular ship, and then, by failing
to present himself for embarkation at the time and
port appointed by the Agent-General for the sailing
of such ship, be left behind, the passage money will
be forfeited.
6. The Immigration Officer at the capital town in
each Province or County (and he only) will receive
applications as under:-
(1.) From persons who may wish to give bills
for the passage money of their relatives or
friends, instead of paying cash, as provided
for in clause 1. The amount of the bills to be
taken will be 50 per cent. over the amount
above fixed to be paid in cash, and the bills
will become due 30 days after the arrival of
the immigrants sent for, and may be paid by
instalments, the terms and periods of which
must be arranged with the Immigration
Officer.
(2.) From persons whose friends are over 50-
years of age.
(3.) From persons whose friends are widows
with children.
7. The above rates being only for the passage from
the port of embarkation to the Colony, the cost of
conveyance to such port, and to the residence of their
friends after arrival in the Colony, must be defrayed
by the emigrants themselves.
8. All the ships employed in this service will be
under the provisions of the Passenger Act.
9. It is to be distinctly understood that, notwith-
standing applications may have been granted at
Money Order Post Offices, the Immigration Officers
aforesaid are empowered to object to any of the emi-
grants so nominated being sent out, either from
unsuitability of occupation or from any other cause;
and the Agent-General in London will have power to
refuse passages where the intending emigrants are in
ill-health, or in any way unfitted, according to his
judgment, to undertake the voyage.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Masters and Mates of Vessels to hold Certificates
of Competency.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
eleventh day of December, 1872.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly
intituled "The Merchant Shipping Acts
Adoption Act, 1869," it is, among other things,
enacted that the Third Part of the Act of the
Imperial Parliament called "The Merchant Shipping
Act, 1854" (in the now reciting Act referred to as
"the principal Act"), with the exception of certain
parts thereof, should, from and after the coming into
operation of the now reciting Act, be applied, so far
as the same is applicable, to all British ships regis-
tered at, trading with, or being at any place within
the jurisdiction of New Zealand, and to the owners,
masters, and crews of such ships: And by the now
reciting Act it is further enacted that the provisions
contained in sections numbered from 131 to 140,
both inclusive, in the Third Part of the said principal
Act, relating to the examination and certificates of
Masters and Mates, shall not come into operation
until such times as shall be hereafter appointed by
the Governor in Council: And whereas it is expe-
dient that the provisions contained in the said
sections should come into operation on the date
hereinafter appointed for that purpose:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise
of the authority vested in me by the hereinbefore in
part recited Act, and by and with the advice and
consent of the Executive Council of the said Colony,
do hereby order that the provisions contained in
sections numbered from 131 to 140, both inclusive,
in the Third Part of "The Merchant Shipping Act,
1854," shall come into operation upon the first day
of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
three.

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, Gover-
nor 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 eleventh day of Decem-
ber, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-two.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Powers under the Public Health Act delegated to
J. Macandrew, Esq.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

WHEREAS by "The Public Health Act, 1872,"
it is, among other things, enacted that the
Governor may from time to time, as he thinks fit,
order that all or any of the powers, functions, duties,
authorities, or acts, vested in, conferred on, or
authorized or required to be performed by the
Governor within any Province, district, port, or
place in the Colony, by or under the fifty-third and
seventy-seventh sections of the said Act, shall be
exercised, performed, or done by the Superintendent
of such Province, with the advice of the Executive
Council of such Province (if any), as in the said Act
mentioned; subject, however, to any limitations or
restrictions as he may think fit:

Now therefore, His Excellency Sir George Fergu-
son Bowen, the Governor of the Colony of New
Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and
authority enabling him under the hereinbefore in part
recited Act, doth hereby order that all the powers,
functions, duties, authorities, or acts, vested in, con-
ferred on, or authorized or required to be done by
him as such Governor as aforesaid, within the Pro-
vince of Otago, under the fifty-third and seventy-
seventh sections of the said Act, shall be exercised
performed, or done by

JAMES MACANDREW, Esq.,
the Superintendent of the said Province, as and in
manner by the said Act required: Provided that
this order shall only remain in force so long as the
said James Macandrew shall be and remain such
Superintendent as aforesaid, or until other provision