IMMIGRATION

                Superintendent's Office              
              Southland, 13th march, 1863            

THE   Government   of   Southland   being   about  to
issue   instructions  to   the  Home  Agents  to  lay
on a vessel from the Clyde direct for the Bluff, with
immigrants,  the attention of  parties  interested in
the Province is directed to the following sub-section
4,  of clause 1st,  of  Instructions  to  Immigration
Agents:-                                             
 "4.  Any   persons  residing  in  the   Province  of
Southland, desirous of assisting their Friends in the
United  Kingdom  to  immigrate  to the Province,  may
obtain for them  assisted passages  hither by drawing
a Bill for  the full amount  of the  passage-money to
the order of the  Provincial  Treasurer of Southland,
accepted by a substancial householder,  also resident
in the Province,  and approved of by the  Superinten-
dent as sufficient security for the same.  The drawer
of any  such Bill  will then  receive an order to the
Immigration  Agent,  authorising  him  to  give  free
passage to the  Province of Southland  to any  person
or  persons  named  therein;  and  any  residents  in
Southland will be able to assist their friends to im-
migrate to the  Province by  undertaking to repay the
whole  of  the  passage-money  in  the  manner  above
provided."                                           
 Bills will be made out  at the  rate of  £15 10s per
statute adult.                                       
 Application  must be made at this  office before the
12th day of April next.                              
                          By order,                  
                                          H.A. GILLER
                          Clerk of the Superintendent


Transcribed by Corey Woodw@rd