✨ Immigration Regulations and Application Form
Immigration Regulations.
Superintendent’s Office,
THE General Government having invited the co-operation of this Provincial Government for such of their relatives or friends as are comprised within the classes required to make application to the Emigration Agent on the other side.
The Emigrants required by the General Government are married couples and single men not over 45 nor under 16 years, accustomed to spade work, with a proportion of mechanics. No unmarried females can be provided with passages under these regulations, except they accompany and are under the care of a near relative.
The rate of passage has been fixed, until further notice, at £14 per Statute Adult, and all ships employed in this service will be under the provisions of the “Passenger Act.”
Each Emigrant will be required to give a Promissory Note payable on demand for the whole amount of the intending Emigrant’s passage money. However, one half of the passage money will be remitted after the Emigrants sent out, the other half being cancelled provided they remain two years in the Province; but otherwise the whole amount will be enforced.
In no case will the indebtedness of any applicant be allowed to exceed £28; i.e., equal to the passage of two adults. The passage money of children must therefore be paid in cash at the time of application. Children between the ages of 1 and 12 years, will be berthed and provisioned as equal to half an adult, according to the Passenger Act; but only one-fourth of the passage number of adults will be charged.
In event of any Emigrants applied for declining to emigrate, whatever money may have been deposited with the Provincial Government will be returned, so soon as the Home Agent shall have apprised the Provincial Government thereof; but in case any Emigrant shall fail to present themselves for embarkation at the time appointed, the amount of the Promissory Note will be enforced.
Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Home Agent will have power to refuse passages where the intending Emigrants are in any way unfit, according to his judgement, to undertake the voyage.
Fees Received.
FORM OF APPLICATION.
I, the undersigned, hereby apply for the passage to Wellington, under the Immigration Regulations of 1st September, 1864, of
Name ............................
Address in full ............................
For which .......................... will become surety.
Dated this ...... day of .......... 186..
(Signature and address of applicant)
Wellington Provincial Gazette 1864, No 50
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