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Otago Witness, Issue 178, 6 January 1855, Page 4

lay ; — Because, on the present occasion, of having the means of averting the confusion arising from separate Agencies independent of each other, in place of one Agency wholly responsible to the Province, and having power as heretofore to appoint its Sub-Agents and Correspondents in the United Kingdom s—Because5 — Because of j my conviction that it will be one of the first acts of a new and enlarged Council to expunge from this Ordinance a principle so fraught with confusion and with damage to the Province in respect of the home responsibilities to be exacted on Us behalf ; — And finally, because of present satisfaction to Otago settlers in being enabled to get out their friends as assisted passengers. W. Cargill, Superintendent. (Extract.) RULES to be observed by the Agents for Otago in regard to Emigration. SELECTION. The Agents shall cavefully satisfy themselves that the parties are of sound mind and body, healthy, skilful in their callings, of industrious habits, and gond moral character. The Certificates of their possessing these qualifications to be trans, mitted along with them. Parties producing letters from kinsfolk or friends in Otago, and whose names are also upon the list sent home, if found qualified as above, to have a j preference over all other applicants. | A preference also to be given to married couples I with families if otherwise qualified as above. In general, selection to be made in such way as that there shall be an equal number of both sexes. Young unmarried females, not members of families, to be placed under the guardianship of the heads of a family or a matron. Each party of Emigrants to bo selected, with a view to the supply of the kinds of labour in demand in the settlement, as the Agents shall be advifed, EXTENT OF AID. Parties having sufficient funds of their own shall not be entitled to aid from the Immigration Fund. And parties aided shall give obligation to repay the sum advanced on their account by such yearly j instalments, in number and amount, as shall be i arranged between them and the Agents. j snips. ! The Ships to be chartered from Porls most convenient for the bulk of the passengers; to be uni- j formly First Class ; and in victualling, accommodation, and otherwise, to be at least equal to other I passenger ships between London and New Zealand, j Superintendent's Office, Dunedin, 28th December 1854. I TVTOTICE is hereby given, that in virtue of j i-^ the Otago " Immigration and British Agent Ordinance," Session 11., No. 4, and the Rules made thereon by the Superintendent and Executive Council, Parties wishing to get out their Friends are to apply to me in writing in the annexed form. W. Cargill, Superintendent. FORM OF APPLICATION. Date To His Honor the Superintendent of the Province of Otago. Sir, — I hereby apply for the under-mentioned persons to be brought out to Otago as assisted passengers, and I hereby bind and oblige myself to guarantee the repayment of the cost of their Passages, to such extent, and within the time for each instalment of the same, as shall have been agreed upon between the said Passengers and the home Agents for the Province. Name and Sex 1 .... Age (so far as known oz* believed) Trade, or class of labour Residence (stating the county, and parish or town) Signed A. B. Residence. Witnesses to the signature of A. B. CD,, of E.F.,of PROCLAMATION. By His Honor William Cargill, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Otago. TtfTHEREAS by the " Public Roads Ordi- » T nance," passed in the first Session of the Provincial Council of the Province of Otago, No. 10, Sectiou 8, it is enacted " That the Superintendent shall divide the whole Province into Districts, and shall distinctly lay down the boundaries of each District by a Proclamation in the Gazette and in the newspapers :" And ■whereas, by Proclamation dated the 19th day of July 1854, and published in the Gazette of date the 22nd day of July i 1854, and in the " Otago Witness" of date the 29th day of July 1854, the boundaries of the Town District and Clutha District of said Province were distinctly laid down, and a Notice published, requiring the inhabitants _of said Districts respectively to meet at the time and place mentioned in said Notice, to elect Trustees in terms of the foresaid Ordinance ; but the said meetings, from divers causes, were not held : And whereas another Proclamation containing a notice was issued and published in the Gazette No. 12, and in the " Otago Witness" No. 168, of new proclaiming the said Town District, and requiring the inhabitants thereof to meet and elect Trustees as aforesaid,