✨ Immigration and British Agent Ordinance
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
[PROVINCE OF OTAGO.]
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereto annexed are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
W. CARGILL, Superintendent.
Vol. II.] SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1854. [No. 17.
IMMIGRATION AND BRITISH AGENT ORDINANCE.
In the Eighteenth Year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria.
Session II., No. 4.
ANALYSIS.
Preamble.
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Agents to be appointed.
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Regulations for Immigration to be made for guidance of Agent.
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Petitions, Addresses, &c., to be forwarded through Agent.
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Correspondence with Agent.
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Agent to enter into Contracts, &c., under instructions.
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Agent to appoint Successor in certain cases.
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Agent to appoint Sub-Agents.
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James Crawford, jun., John Auld, and William Walter Cargill, Esquires, to be first Agents.
AN ORDINANCE for promoting Immigration to the Province of Otago, and for appointing Agents in the United Kingdom for that and other purposes.
WHEREAS it is expedient that provision should be made for the Immigration from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland into the Province of Otago in New Zealand of labourers and other persons desirous of settling in the said Province, and for rendering assistance out of the public funds of the Province to such persons as may be unable to defray the whole cost of their passage thereto, and for the protection and advancement of other interests of the said Province,
BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the Superintendent of the said Province, with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof, as follows:—
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There shall be an Agent or Agents in Great Britain for the Province of Otago, to be from time to time appointed and nominated by Ordinances of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the said Province, for promoting Immigration to this Province, for protecting and advancing in Great Britain the political or other interests of the said Province, and generally for carrying into effect whatever instructions may be given to them in pursuance of the provisions of this Ordinance.
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The Superintendent shall from time to time, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, make regulations for the conducting and management of Immigration; and he is hereby authorised to make such arrangements with the Agent or Agents to be appointed as aforesaid, as may be necessary for conducting the same, and may, with advice as aforesaid, alter or rescind such regulations or arrangements, or any of them, and make others instead thereof. And all such regulations and arrangements shall be laid before the Provincial Council within ten days after the issue thereof; or if the Council be not then sitting, within ten days after the opening of the next Session of the same.
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All Petitions, Addresses, Memorials, or other Communications, which shall be addressed by the Provincial Council or by the Superintendent to Her Majesty the Queen, or to Her Majesty’s Ministers, or to either House of Parliament, or to any other person or persons whatsoever, on behalf of the said Province.
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Otago Provincial Gazette 1854, No 17
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- James Crawford (Esquire), Appointed as first Agent
- John Auld (Esquire), Appointed as first Agent
- William Walter Cargill (Esquire), Appointed as first Agent
- W. Cargill, Superintendent