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$toy facial eotuntment jwtfees. Proyincial|Secretarv'B Office, '} Ciirifltchurch, April 17,1862. HIS HONOR the Superintendent ~ directs it to be notified that, with the advice qf the Executive Council, he has adopted the following Immigration Regulations, and urther diiects them to be published, for general nformation. . . i.: . . T. W. MAUDE, Provincial Secretary. IMMIGRATION REqUI-ATIONS. All persons desirous of obtaining assisted pas sages to the Province of Canterbury, in vessels under contract with the Provincial Government, may receive assistance as follows:— 1. The Government will afford assistance equal in amount to the euiri paid in cash by the passenger. If there shall beany balance, the Government will advance , the sum, taking from the passenger promissory notes for the amount advanced, payable to the Treasurer of the Province. Such notes will be. made payable on demand, but unices the passenger dispute the debt, or shall attempt to leave the Province,, payment ..williOnJy be,required in stuns of five pounds at a time, at periods of three months,,, uatil the whole debt. is discharged. The first jKiyrnent to be made six months after landing. 2. Any person resident in the province desirous of assisting their friends in England or elsewhere to obtain assisted passages to the. colony,, may <loso-by paying half the amount of passage money to the Provincial Treasurer, or by drawing a bill to the order of the Provincial Treasurer to the extent of two-thirds of the passage money, accepted by a substantial householder also | resident,in,.the i province, to be. approved of by the Superintendent as sufficient security for the same ; this Bill ihay then be transmitted to the person who is desirous of;, emigrating to the Oolony,' and being by 'presented to« the j Emigration Agents will be. received in heu of cash payment, as hereinafter provided; the Bill will be re-transmitted by the agent,- to he colony,;; and njiisi; be paid immediately on presetitatibfi. ,s I; ...■■■.-. . ; 3. Assisted passages will be afforded to bond fide labouring men, inechauies, and female',domestic servants;.but persons of all.classes, willbe able to assist their friends to emigrate to the colony by undertalcing the payment of tlie whole of the passage} money in the wanner above provided. 4. JNo person will be*aDQ.we<i/any assistance unless he shall have .been approved, of by the Agent in England. No single man aboveihe age of ,40.years ; no person above the age o| feO, t "unless .a; memoer of a large family; and l no, above 60 years, under any ' circumstances, will allowed assistance. 5. When Bins are tendered ; in payriieut as cash in England, the amount of assistance given by tlje ,/jGlo^erument,, be one-half of the amoUnt of such persons therefore wishing to give Meir. frieods Jn, England tlie utmost amotiptpf,aßsi|tance must, give bills for twor thirds, of the whole amount of. th,e passage money. 6.' The. rate^of i^assage^/money, inclusive of incidental expenses ,to the colony is,'fixed until at and all "bills will be pre : ]>aredi in accoixlance" with that rate. ' ' 7. ( Apiih'cations for assis,ted passages will,'. Tie receix|q..,^Ctlie,',' Office, in Christat tjue Office, } in Lyi^oljbqn*; ; ; '. j .•.;'•'•;■' '■ '■•,'■ R BTOtD- O ! F : * 1? 0 aO. ■AUr-'l w.'H; :,io-A:-. \;.::..r.<!:i...:> -, .; ; •;.: r A t "PRJ!E<i-tp offer £1000 for, the diecoyeiy pi a j(soitt|^e)[d : wiinin tiie Province of Canterbury, eubject to the following conditions: 1., TVt the locality where gold may be discovered, shall; be reasonably accessible -from Christchurch. 2, That j the payment of the said ,s\uu of ,£IODQ Bhal(ho siihj?ct tp, the approval of ; ;ih.Q Provincial Council, and the decision . 'of Mr. JJaaaii j the jProvinojal Gepjiogist, ,as to :the paying capabilities aud the . extent of the field. t *■ l ' T. VT. MAtTDE, . ' ' ' ' Provincial Secretary. » . i i ). i * i. i . CHitigTOHtTROH HOSPITAL. A LIBRARY is fpr the use of the patient*; and' persons desirous of givinghooks are requited'fo forward the came I to the. Provincial Secretary, Ohrietchurch, by wionx they will be gladly r r*ceivedi • £-■■'"■>■''■'■■' > : - 1 '•' '•/■ ■•■■•■■■■••■': ;; T. >I W.'MAtTTjiK, • ' Provincial Secretary. JunelSj 1862, PUBLIC NOTIGE. THE Executive Council meets every Tuesdiiy, at 11 o'clock a. m., for the transaction of ordinary business, and all matters which persons may desire to bring under its consideration, must be forwarded in. writing to the Provincial Secretary's Office, on the Saturday previous to each meeting. ;•;.:,.. T. W. MAUDE, Provincial Secretary. Provincial Secretary's Office, ~ ; Chrietohurch, June 10, 1862: tfOTicir" r TPHE Provincial Government Oflßces A : will be open as heretofore on Wednesdays to the usual hour of business. , THOS. W. MAUDE, iPiix)vUicial Secretary. Provincial Secretary VOffice, April 9, 1862.
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Press, Volume III, Issue 74, 11 October 1862, Page 8
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