✨ Immigration Regulations
Immigration Regulations.
Superintendent’s Office,
Wellington, 1st September 1864.
THE General Government having instructed the Superintendent of Wellington to make arrangements for a particular class of Emigration from Great Britain and Ireland to this Province, settlers who wish to obtain passages for such of their relatives or friends as are comprised within that class, are requested to make application in the form printed 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 applicant will be required to give a Promissory Note payable on demand, signed by himself and a sufficient surety, for the whole amount of the intending Emigrants passage. If, however, one half of such Promissory Note is paid (without demand) within twelve months after the arrival of the Emigrants sent for, the other half will be 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 money of an adult will be charged, or £3 10s. each.
In the 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 the event of any Emigrants applied for accepting the offer of a passage in a particular ship, and so, by failing to present themselves for embarkation at the time and place appointed by the Home Agent for the sailing of such ship, be left behind, the passages will be forfeited.
Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Home Agent 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.
JOHN KNOWLES,
Immigration Clerk.
[FORM OF APPLICATION]
I, the undersigned, hereby apply for the passage to Wellington, under the Immigration Regulations of 1st September, 1864, of
Name _____
Age _____
Calling _____
Address in full _____
For which _____
of _____ will become surety.
Dated the __ of __ 1864
(Signature and address of applicant.)
Printed under the authority of the Government of the Province of Wellington by Thomas M’Kenzie and James Muir, Printers for the time being to such Government.
Wellington Provincial Gazette 1865, No 1
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🛂 Immigration Regulations for Wellington Province
🛂 Immigration1 September 1864
Emigration, Wellington, Passage Rates, Regulations, Promissory Note
- John Knowles, Immigration Clerk