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PAPERS RELATING TO IMMIGRATION.

substantial householder also resident in that Province, to be approved by and deposited with the Superintendent as sufficient security for the same. A copy of this bill or the receipt for the cash payment is to be transmitted to the person who is desirous of immigrating into the Province, and being by him presented to the Agent-General in England, will be received by him in lieu of a cash payment in full. The copy of the bill is returned by the Agent-General to the Colony upon the embarkation of the person nominated, and the bill itself becomes due and payment is enforced thirty days after the arrival of the person for whose passage it was drawn and deposited. But if the person nominated declines to make use of the copy of the bill or receipt thus sent him, he should at once inform the Agent-General, so that the bill may be cancelled, or, if a cash payment has been made, that the money may be refunded on the return of the receipt to the Colony. Foem or Biix. (Stamp.) [Place of making and date.'] £ ■§ ■ , Three days after sight pay to Her Jlajesty Queen 31^ : Ivs Victoria, in the Colony of >*ew Zealand, the sum of pounds shillings, for value "- £ •_ received. To Mr. C. D., •§>| W6.|>l' [Signature of Drawer] A.B. Grocer, Christchurch. mJ 2 &5 Note. —Stamp duty to the proper amount. Impressed stamp forms should always be used, so as to avoid any question as to cancellation. 2. The rate of passage money to the Province is fixed, until further notice, at £15, and cash payments are made or bills prepared in accordance with that rate. 3. Nominated passages will be afforded only to persons of such trades or callings as may from time to time be determined by the Provincial Immigration Ofliccr, acting under the instructions of the Government; but persons of all classes will be able to assist their friends to emigrate to the Colony by undertaking the payment of the whole of the passage money. 4. Free passages will be provided for single women accustomed to domestic service who can bring satisfactory proof of good character, and who are between the ages of 15 and 35. 5. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Agent-General in England will have power to refuse passages where the intending immigrants are in ill health or in any way unfitted, according to his judgment, to undertake the voyage. 6. Applications for nominated passages of families and single men, and for nominated free passages of single women under clause 4, as above, are to be addressed to the Immigration Office, Christchurch or Timaru, in the following form, viz.:— I, the undersigned, hereby apply for a nominated passage to Christchurch [or Timaru], under the regulations of sth July, 1871, for Name Age Calling Address in full for which I herewith pay the sum of £ , being equal to adults at £6 per adult, and hereby agree to receive the emigrants above named immediately on their arrival in Christchurch [or Timaru. Dated this day of , 1871. (Signature and address of Applicant.) Note. —This form is subject to adaptation to meet the cases where bills are given or free passages applied for. Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same; and issued at Wellington, this fifth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one. W. Gisboene.

No. 64. Memorandum No. 6 for the Agent-General, London. The enclosed correspondence relative to nominated and assisted immigration to Canterbury will inform you of the footing on which it is now placed. The only point to which it is necessary to draw special attention is the execution of the promissory notes by intending immigrants. You will be good enough to take legal advice as to the necessary formalities of witnessing, &c. As the enclosed applications and bills have been sent for transmission under the system that has obtained hitherto, they are transmitted to avoid delay. Public Works Office, Wellington, 7th July, 1871. W. Gisboejte.

No. 65. Memobandum No. 7 for the Agent-General, London. The following telegram from His Honor the Superintendent of Canterbury, requesting that the number of single women immigrants to that Province may be increased, is forwarded for your information.: —