✨ Immigration 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, JANUARY 27, 1855. [No. 18.
IMMIGRATION-APPROPRIATION AND DEBENTURES ORDINANCE.
In the Eighteenth Year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria.
Session II., No. 5.
Analysis.
Preamble.
- Appropriation of £4,500 for Immigration.
- Superintendent may issue Debentures for Money required for Immigration.
- Such Debentures, with interest, to be a charge upon the Provincial Revenue.
An Ordinance to Appropriate a Sum for Immigration, and to empower the Superintendent to issue Debentures for the Money required.
WHEREAS it is expedient to provide for Immigration from the United Kingdom into the Province of Otago: And whereas the Public Revenues of the said Province may not be sufficient to meet the whole amount desirable to be issued and applied for Immigration;
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 and may be issued and applied out of the Revenues of the said Province the sum of Four Thousand Five Hundred Pounds, for the purposes of Immigration from the United Kingdom into the Province of Otago, subject to such regulations for the conducting and management thereof as may be made in conformity with the Immigration and British Agent Ordinance, No. 4 of the present Session of the Provincial Council.
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It shall be lawful for the Superintendent of the said Province to issue Debentures on account of the said Province, for any sum or sums of money which may be required to make up any deficiency in the Revenues of the said Province, to meet the amount authorised to be issued and applied for Immigration as aforesaid.
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All and singular such Debentures shall be signed by the Superintendent of the said Province, and otherwise duly authenticated, and shall, together with all interest, if any accruing thereon (which interest shall not exceed the rate of eight pounds sterling per centum per annum), be a charge upon, and shall be discharged out of, the Revenues of the said Province.
Passed the Provincial Council this seventeenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.
ROBT. CHAPMAN,
Clerk of Council.
Assented to on behalf of the Governor, at Dunedin, the nineteenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.
W. CARGILL,
Superintendent.
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Otago Provincial Gazette 1855, No 18
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- W. Cargill, Superintendent
- ROBT. CHAPMAN, Clerk of Council