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4. No person will be allowed any assistance unless he or she shall have been approved by the Agent-General in London, or by the agent of the Province in Scotland acting under his direction.

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 satisfactory proof of good character, and who are between the ages of 15 and 35.

8. In certain other cases, with a view to the introduction of skilled labor 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 persons 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 Invercargill, 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 immediately 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 aforesaid, in the event of the physical health or moral character of the person so nominated not being satisfactory 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 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.

Printed under the authority of the Provincial Government of Otago, by MILLS, DICK & CO., of Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand, Printers to the said Provincial Government for the time being.