SUBSTANTIAL INDUCEMENTS TO IMMIGRANTS.

Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1236, 11 December 1874, Page 2

SUBSTANTIAL INDUCEMENTS TO IMMIGRANTS.

The New Zealand Herald save, referring to Mexican immigrants :—" We imagine that we in New Zealand are liberal in our offers of inducements to immigrants. So we are—perhaps too liberal, but we cannot be compared in the same breath with Mexico. In fact, if anybody will emigrate to Mexico,' they can have anything they wish to ask for, from their bread and butter for twelve months to their local selfgovernment. The Mexican Congress has passed a new law to encourage immigration, and has appropriated oOO.OOOdoIs to assist immigrants this year. They are to be carried at the expense of the Republic from the place of their residence abroad to the point of their destination; provisions will be furnished them during their . Vo Pge; they will receive OOdols for their.support during the first year, and if they are dissatisfied at the end of the second year the Republic will pay their way back to their native country. When fifty families or more settle in one colony, they may constitute a municipal corporation, elect their own officials, and adopt ordinances for their local Government not inconsistent with the State or Federal laws. Their lands are to be free from taxes (except municipal taxes) for five years, and all their provisions, tools, anil material for houses, shall bo imported free of duty, and any vessei bringing more than ten immigrants shall be free from tonnage, lighthouse, ar.chorage, and pibtjige duties. All immigrants are declared citizens from the moment of their arrival, and they enjoy all the political and civil rights of" native citizens. Public lands will be set apart for them and each man who desires to till the soil wdl receive not less that 110 acres nor more than 1100 acres, which he can cultivate without charge for ten years, and at the expiration of that period may purchase, either paying the full juice down, or one-tenth annually for ten years more. Sites suitable for towns will be surveyed, and a lot will be offered to every immigrant, who, however, is not restricted to land now wild, but may settle in any of the towns, cities, or agricultural or miningdistricts. The law implies that the immigrant may follow any mechanical or laboring occupation, and we presume it intends to give the same liberty to professions; but these are not mentioned."