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Wellington Independent, Volume XV, Issue 1331, 11 March 1859, Page 1

Province of Wellington, Immigration Registry Office. NOTICE TO IMMIGRANTS.: -nf-IR PROVINCIAL Government of "■JtJ- Wellington will, in pursuance of tlio Resolution of the Provincial Council, bo prepared to convey to each Immigrant (introduced undor thoir Regulations) as soon as he shall have redeemed his Promissory Note, or Notes, a quantity of land equal in value (at the rate of lOs. an acrej to one-fourth of the amount of his Passage Money. For example:— every Immigrant on redemption of his Promissory Note or Notes, will be entitled to receive teu acres of land for every Twenty Pounds he shall have paid on account of the passage of himself and family. These Grants of laud will be either made out of blocks specially reserved for Immigration purposes in Small Farm and Agricultural Settlements, or in the immediate vicinity of Roads in process of construction or the Immigrant may select the quantity 'i/hich he shall be declared entitled out of any lauds open to purchase as rural. Iv order to facilitate the location of Immigrants desirous of immediately settling upon land and of being employed on the Public Works, Reserves will be ■made wherever practicable, along or near each line of road, aud will be laid off in Ten acre sections, which the Immigrants will be permitted at once to occupy, receiving a conveyance of the same as soon as they shall have paid the whole of their Passage Money. Parties desirous of availing themselves hi lais privilege in the block at present being Surveyed in the Grey Town Settlement, are requested to make immediate application to the undersigned, who will give any further information that may be .required. ■ '■•■•? aS ". : . . Jrfor.DS-woivrß", • i' Registrar of Immigration. August 11th, J 857. '-..: GUARANTEED IMMIGRANTS. Immigration Office, Wellington, Ist Jan., 1858. SETTLERS desirous of obtaining pas : sages from Great Britain to Wellington, for their Relatives or .Friends, are requested to make application in wntirig iO ;u\s office, purtieuitinsuiq tue names, probaole ages, and piace ot residence of the proposed emigrants. Regulations. 1. Repayment of the Passage Money to be secured by Promissory Note, signed by "the applicant, and one other party approved by Government, payable on demand, and of which payment will be required by reasonable instalments, except in case of applicant or surety leaving the colony, when immediate payment will be required, or provision must be made for the same. 2. As a further security, and to protect the parties on whose application the Emigrant is brought out, the Emigrant himself, (or.head of a family where there are women and children) will before embarking, be required to give Promissory Notes, payable on demand, which will be forwarded to the Local Government. 3. In case of any Emigrant applied for, accepting the offer of a Passage, but not presenting himself for embarkation at the time and place appointed by the Shipping Agents in England, and so being left behind, one hall of the passage money will be forfeited, and must be paid to the Provincial Government on demand, by the Applicants iv the Colony, for which the first-mentioned Promissory Notes will be a security. 4. An allowance, according to Act of Parliament, will be made by tho Shipping Agents iv London, in caso of the ■ Ships not sailing to tho day. 5. Emigrants and thoir personal baggage will be' landed free of expense. 6.—Rate of Passage Money. Statute Adults, (comprising all persons from 12 years of age and upwards, not more than £20 per head Botween I and 12, not more than £10 perhead Under 1 year, no charge .. 7. Personal buggage iv tho following proportions. Adults % tou Not Adults, but above 1 year old ton 8. All ships einpJoyed in. this service being under the provisions.of tho "Passenger Act," every means will be used to seouro tho comfort and welfare of the Passengers. v JOr[N KNOWLES, I . • Immigration Clork.