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Enclosure in No. 23. [Extract from the A"ew Zealand Gazette, No. 65, December 12, 1872.] REGULATIONS FOE THE INTRODUCTION OF IMMIGRANTS. G. F. Bowen, Governor. ORDER IS COUNCIL. At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this fourth day of December, 1872. Present: His Excellency the Governor in Council. Whereas under and by virtue of the powers and authorities vested in him for that purpose by " The Immigation and Public Works Act, 1870," and " The Immigration and Public Works Act Amendment Act, 1871," the Governor did, on or about the first day of March last past, make certain Regulations for the introduction of Immigrants from Europe into the Colony of New Zealand on the nomination of persons resident therein : And whereas by the paid first-mentioned Act it is, amongst other things, enacted that the Governor in Council may from time to time make Regulations for the conduct of Immigration to New Zealand, and for the nomination of Immigrants by persons residing therein, as in the said Act mentioned, and no action shall be taken upon any such Regulation until the same has been laid before Parliament: And whereas by " The Immigration and Public Works Act Amendment Act, 1871," so much of the 40th section of the said first-mentioned Act as provides that no action is to be taken under the Rcgulatious made under the said section until such Regulations have been laid before Parliament, is thereby repealed : And whereas it is expedient that other Regulations should be made in lieu of those so made by the Governor as aforesaid : Now therefore, His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in him for that purpose by " The Immigration and Public Works Act, 1870," and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Colony, doth hereby make the Regulations set forth in the Schedule hereto, for the conduct of immigration to New Zealand, and for the nomination of Immigrants by persons resident therein: such Regulations to take effect from and after the fifteenth day of December instant, in lieu of those so made on the first day of March last: Provided, however, that nothing herein contained, or in the Regulations hereby made, shall prejudice or affect anything lawfully done or any right acquired or duty imposed by or under the said Regulations of the first day of March last. SCHEDULE. Regulations for the Conduct op Immigration to New Zealand, on the Nomination op Immigrants by Persons resident therein. 1. The Immigration Regulations and Forms of Application may be obtained at any Post Office or Immigration Office in the Colony; but applications and payments for passages are only to be made to Money Order Post Offices or to the Immigration Officer at the capital town of each Province or County. 2. Any person resident in the Colony, desirous of nominating relatives or friends in Europe for passages to New Zealand, may do so by paying at any Honey Order Post Office, or to the Immigration Officers aforesaid, the sum of £4 for each adult (except single women) between 50 and 12 years of age, and £2 for each child under 12 years of age. Infants under 1 year, free. In certain cases, bills will be taken in lieu of cash payments, and passages will be provided for persons over 50 years of age. (See clause 0.) AVidows with families are, as a rule, not eligible, and applications for passages in their behalf are only fo be made to the Immigration Officers aforesaid. (Sec clause 6.) 3. Free passages will be granted to girls of 12 years of age and upwards accompanying their parents, and to single women between the ages of 1G and 35, provided they are able to produce proof of good character to the satisfaction of the Agent-General in London; and a gratuity of 10s. will be paid by the Agent-General to heads of families emigrating under these Regulations for every such single woman, not being a member of the family, brought out under their protection. 4. Every adult emigrant will be required, before embarkation, to pay to the Agent-General 20s. (and children in proportion) for bedding, blankets, and mess uteusils. 5. In the event of any emigrant applied for declining to emigrate, whatever money or bills may have been deposited with the Government will be returned to the applicant so soon as the AgentGeneral shall have apprised the Government thereof; but in the event of any emigrant applied for accepting the offer of a passage in a particular ship, and then, by failing to present himself for embarkation at the time and port appointed by the Agent-General for the sailing of such ship, be left behind, the passage money will be forfeited. 6. The Immigration Officer at the capital town in each Province or County (aud he only) will receive applications as under: — (1.) From persons who may wish to give bills for the passage money of their relatives or friends, instead of paying cash, as provided for in clause 1. The amount of the bills to be taken, will be 50 per cent, over the amount above fixed to be paid in cash, and the bills will become due 30 days after tho arrival of the immigrants sent for, and may be paid by instalments, the terms and periods of which must be arranged with the Immigration Officer. (2.) From persons whose friends are over 50 years of age. (3.) From persons whose friends are widows with children. 7. The above rates being only for the passage from the port of embarkation to the Colony, the cost of conveyance to such port, and to the residence of their friends after arrival in the Colony, must be defrayed by the emigrants themselves. 8. All tho ships employed in this service will be under the provisions of the Passenger Act.