CALIFORNIA IMMIGRATION ASSOCIATION.

Otago Witness, Issue 909, 20 March 1869, Page 17

CALIFORNIA IMMIGRATION ASSOCIATION.

(Alta California. )

The California Immigration Association perfected a permanent organization at the Cosmopolitan Hotel last evening, by the election of officers and the adoption of a constitution.

There was a large attendance at the parlors of the Cosmopolitan Hotel last evening. Colonel John Middleton was called to the chair, the llev. O. P. Fitzgerald was elected Secretary jiro tern.

Hon. Frank Tilford, from the committee appointed for that purpose, reported a constituiion, the principal features of -which are comprised in the articles appended : Article 11. The grand object of the Association is to aid and promote imnr'gration to California, by securing homes and lands to immigrants arriving within our border with the intention of settling in the State. All immigrants, regardless of nativity or nationality, shall be deemed equally entitled to the aid of this organization.

Article 111. The association proposes to accomplish the object in the foregoing article, by acquiring and disseminating information as to the adaptation of different localities to the various products of California, their facilities of access to market, salubrity of climate, title and price of land, and, generally, such intelligence as will enable the immigrant to select, at the least cost and with the greatest certainty, the location best adapted to the employment in which he may desire to en(raf?e. *****

Article V. Members shall be divided into two classes : Honorary and Regular. The initiation fee of the honorary class shall be one hundred dollars, and the regular class ten dollars, and every member shajl pay into the treasury, monthly, one dollar.

Article VI. The affairs of this association shall be conducted by a President, three Vice- Presidents, Secretary, Treasurer, a Board of 21 Directors, and such other officers and agents as the Board of Directors may appoint.

The Secretary is to have an office at the rooms of the Association, where maps and statements received, containing information, will be kept and be accessible to those desiring information.

The Board of Directors will hold their regular meetings on the second Tuesday of every month.

The annual meetings for the election of officers will be held on the first Monday of September of each year.