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1 51/11955 - 17th Decr 1851 Thos Abra Respecting payment of passages of his Family

Bubbagullion. Peels River 10th December /51 -

Sir, Being desirous of procuring a passage from England for my two sons, daughter in law and grand child to these shores I have the honor to request you will be pleased to inform me at your earliest con= venience what I shall have to pay for each and to whom I am to pay the money. -

I have the honor to be Sir, Your most obed Serv't Thomas Abra per Norfolk 1837

The Honorable The Col'l Secretary &c &c &c

[marginalia] John Abra. 30 years Edw'd Abra. 28 years Eliza Abra. 23 years - child - -

Mr V 17 -

The sum will be £8 each for the 3 Adults and £4 for the Child [Appln in the?] Regulations may perhaps be sent to Thomas Abra - 19 Dec'r

Yes. 20

See amended Regulations reducing the amounts to be paid [Appln?] sent to Thomas Abra

Thos Abra 13 Jany 1852

IMMIGRATION REMITTTANCES.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Sydney, 20th March, 1850. IMMIGRATION REMITTANCES.

His Excellency the GOVERNOR has been pleased to direct the re-publication, for general information of the notice of 22nd December, 1848, which established regulations for facilitating the remittance of money by residents in this Colony, to pay for the emigration of their friends or relatives. 2. In re-publishing the above mentioned notice, the regulations of the Land and Immigration Commissioners, on the subject of providing passages for Emigrants, subjoined thereto as Schedule B, have been omitted, and an extract of the latest regulations issued by them, which have been received in the Colony, substituted instead. 3. His Excellency has further been pleased, with the advice of the Executive Council, to direct it to be intimated, that none but persons coming under class 1, of the Commissioners' regulations, and below the age of 40 years , will be entitled to obtain a passage to this Colony, under the 8th clause of the notice of 22nd December, 1848, above referred to. By His Excellency's Command, E. DEAS THOMSON.

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Colonial Secretary's Office, Sydney, 22nd December, 1848. IMMIGRATION REMITTANCES.

His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has been pleased to direct the publication of the following notice, setting forth the measures which will be adopted in pursuance of instructions from the Right Honorable the Secretary of State, for facilitating the remittance of any sums of money which persons settled in the Colony may desire to send to their relatives or friends, or others in the United Kingdom, for the purpose of enabling them to emigrate to this Country. 1.--In the Country Districts the Clerks of Petty Sessions throughout the Colony will be directed to receive, on every Public Court day during the sitting of the Court, but at no other time or place, any sums which residents in the District may desire to remit to the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners for the purpose of being applied to the provision of steerage passages to this Colony for their friends or relatives or others . In Sydney and Melbourne such sums will be received at the Treasury, where they can be paid in at any time during the usual Office hours. 2. The Clerks of Petty Sessions on receiving any sums under this notice, will enter in the printed form annexed, (Schedale A) the name and address of the depositor, the name, age, calling, and residence of the person or persons in the United Kingdom for whose benefit the money is to be applied , and the names and residences of such persons of note as the depositors may refer to for the purpose of answering any enquiries which the Land and Emigration Commissioners may have to make; and will write at the foot of the same, receipts for the amounts paid into their hands. These forms will, in each case be filled up in triplicate , and the three copies having been certified by one or more of the Magistrates present, one of them will be handed to the depositor, another will be forwarded to the Colonial Treasurer, with the list mentioned in the following clause , and the third will be retained as a record in the office of the Clerk of Petty Sessions. 3. --The Clerks of Petty Sessions will be required to forward to the Colonial Treasurer, in Sydney, or to the Sub-Treasurer, at Melbourne, on the Ist and 16th days of every month, all sums received by them under this notice during the preceding half-month , with a list of the names and addresses of the persons by whom the payments were made, and of those in the United Kingdom for whose benefit the money is to be applied. The amounts thus forwarded will be then paid into the Military Chest of this Colony by order of His Excellency the Governor, who will forward to the Right Honorable the Secretary of State, certificates of the payments , and copies of the lists. 4.-- Tho sums paid into the Military Chest will be placed, by order of the Lords of the Treaaury, at the credit of the Land and Emigration Commissioners, who will apply the money in providing passages to the Colony for the parties named in the lists.

3 2 5.--In cases in which it may be expected that the parties intended to emigrate, may be enabled themselves to raise from their own resources , or by the assistance of others, a portion of their passage money, their friends in the Colony may not consider it necessary to remit a sum sufficiont to pay the whole cost of the passage. In all such instances, it must be understood that the Commissioners will only undertake to apply to the best advantage, for the benefit of the parties, such sums as may be furnished to them, either by remittances from the Colony, or by contributions in the Mother Country, and not to provide passages in cases where the money placed in their hands is insufficient for the purpose.

6. In any case in which the amount remitted may exceed that required for the payment of the intending Emigrant's passage, the balance will either be paid to the Emigrant or returned to the person who made the remittance, according to the directions which may be given by the latter, but in order to prevent this arrangement being used fur the purpose of making remittances unconnected with Emigration, it is necessary to state, that the Commissioners will not undertake to make payments of money in England, to any persons but those for whom they have provided passages to this Colony.

7.For the information of persons who may desire to make remittances under this regulation, it is hereby notified, that the cost of steerage passages to this Colony, under the Commissioners contracts, will not be likely to exceed fourteen pounds for persons above the age of fourteen years. For persons under the age of fourteon years half price only is charged . The cost of outfit for the voyage is estimated as follows, in the latest publication of the Commissioners which has reached the Colony.

For a Single Man........about £4 10 0 For a Single Woman........"... £5 0 0 For a Married Couple......"... £9 0 0

The cost of an outfit for children varies with their size. Generally speaking, three children under 7, or two between that age and 14, may be clothed for about £5; but a well grown girl or boy of 13 years of age will cost nearly as much as an adult.

8. - As it must be expected that the limited funds at the disposal of the Government will oblige the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners to reject for a time many eligible applicants for free passages to this Colony, His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has further directed it to be notified, that residents in this Country may secure a preference for such of their own relatives or friends as may be in every respect qualified under the Commissioners' general regulations for free passages, by contributing and remitting, in the manner above provided for, the undermentioned sums, viz.:

For each person of the ago of 14 vears and upwards......... £8 0 0 For each person between the ages of 1 and 14 years......... £4 0 0

The remainder of the cost of the passage, which will amount to about one-third, will be defrayed by the Government. The subjoined notice (Schedule B) will show the descriptions of persons who are eligible for free passages under the Commissioners' regulations, and who will be entitled to the benefit of the rule laid down in this clause.

9. The balance of the passage money will also be granted, subject to the conditions below stated, to persons depositing the undermentioned sums towards the payment of the passages to this Colony of able bodied labourers or tradesmen and their families, who though ineligible for free passages under the general regulations, may be considered of such a description as to justify a limited contribution from the Land Revenue towards their introduction.

For each person of the age of 14 years and upwards.......... £10 For each person between the ages of 1 and 14 years.......... £ 5

But no deposits will be received under this clause without a written authority from the Government to be produced by the depositor at the time of tendering his money , and the allowance of the balance of the passage money,, will in every instance depend upon the approval of the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners, after the enquiry which they will make in each case respecting the persons nominated . (For forms of application under this Clause see Schedule C and D annexed.) The above regulations are to take effect at the commencement of the ensuing year .

By His Excellency's Command, E. DEAS THOMSON.

3 SCHEDULE A. No. ........ DISTRICT OF EMIGRATION REMITTANCE.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PERSON	OR	PERSONS	FOR WHOSE BENEFIT	THE REMITTANCE IS MADE.
Christian name and Surname at full length	Age.	Trade or Calling.	Where living in Great Britain or Ireland.	Name and Address of some person of note to whom reference can be made respecting the intended Emigrants.
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in this District, in the presence of A.B. and C.D., Justices in Petty Sessions assembled, [or of A.B., acting singly, as the case may be,} the sum of .......... pounds ......... , (£ ....... ,) to be remitted to the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners for the purpose of being applied in the provision of passages to this Colony for the above described persons. Clerk of Petty Sessions, Certifed to be correct, .................. J.P. .................. J.P.

SCHEDULE B. EXTRACT OF REGULATIONS. To be obserred in the selection of Labourers for a Passage to New South Wales, and South Australia; and also the conditions on which the Passage, when granted, must be understood to be accepted. (May, 1849.) DESCRIPTION OP EMIGRANTS. 1. The Emigrants must consist principally of married couples, not above forty years of age. All the adults must be capable of Labour, and must be going out to work for wages. The candidates most acceptable are young married couples without ehildren. 2. The separation of husbands and wives, and of parents from children under 16, will in no case be allowed. 3. Except in special cases, single women under 18 are not eligible, unless they are emigrating with their parents, or under the immediate care of some near married relatives. 4. Young men under 18, not accompanying their parents, are admissible only on payment of the sum in third class of the scale in article 13. 5. No Emigrants, whether adults or children, can be accepted unless they have been vaccinated, or have had the small-pox. 6. Persons intending to buy land in the Colony , or to invest capital in trade there, are not eligible for a passage. 7. Persons in the habitual receipt of parish relief cannot be taken. Temporary inmates of workhouses, or persons not in the habitual receipt of parish relief, will be charged under the third class. 8. No applicant will be accepted without decisive certificates of good character, and of efficiency in his professed trade or calling.

APPLICATTON AND APPROVAI. 9. Applications must be made in the form annexed, which must be duly filled up and attested, as explained in the form itself, and then forwarded to this office, with certificates of birth and marriage of the applicants. It must, however, be distinctly understood, that the filling up of the form confers no claim to a passage ; and that the Commissioners do not pledge themselves to accept any candidates, though apparently within the regulations, unlese they are deemed desirable for the Colony, and can be accepted, consistently with the Board's arrangements, at the time the application is under consideration. 10. If approved of, the Emigrants will receive a passage as soon as the arrangements of the Commissioners will admit. But no preparation must on any account be made by the applicants, either by withdrawing from employment or otherwise, until the decision of the Board has been communicated to them . Those who fail to attend to this warning will do so at their own risk, and will have no claim whatever on the Commissioners. 11. After the applicants have received their deposit circulars, and made the payments required by article 13, they will, as soon as practicable, receive notice of the ship in which they are to embark, and of the time and place of joining her. The selecting Agents of the Board have no authority to promise passages in any case. 12 -Should it be found that any of the signatures attached to the certificates are not genuine, or that any other deception is attempted, the application will be rejected; or should any Emigrant, on personal examination at the port of embarkation , in depot, or on board, be discovered to have made any misstatement whatever with regard to age, trade or calling, health , &c., such person will not be allowed to proceed in the ship. To prevent disappointment, therefore, applicants should be very careful to have their trade or calling and ages correctly stated in their application form.

*The persons eligible for assisted passages, are classified by the Commissioners as follows - the rate of assistance being largest for class No. 1:- Class 1. Agricultural labourers, shepherds, herdsmen, and female domestic and farm servants. ..."... 2. Country mechanics, such as blacksmiths, bricklayers, carpenters, masons, miners, wheelwrights, gardeners, and females of the working class, not being domestic or farm servants. ..."... 3. Other persons of the labouring class, if deemed by the Commissioners desirable for the Colony.

4 SUBSEQUENT PROCEEDINGS. 16. The expense of reaching the port of embarkation must be paid by the Emigrants. If, after arrival, they, or any of their family, are found not to be in a fit state of health to embark, or to have any mental or bodily defect likely to impair their usefulness as labourers, they will be refused admission on board the ship, or if embarked, will be landed again, without having any claim on the Commissioners. 17. If any Emigrants fail to attend at the appointed time and place for embarkation, or to proceed in the ship , they will forfeit out of any money that may have been paid, the sum of £2 for each person of 14 and upwards, and £1 for each child under that age, unless they give to the Commissioners timely notice, and a satisfactory explanation of their inability to proceed. Emigrants thus making default will not be eligible a second time for a passage. 18. Provisions, medical attendance, and cooking utensils, will be provided by the Commissioners; also new mattresses, bolsters, blankets, and counterpanes, canvas bags to contain linen, &c., knives and forks, spoons, metal plates, and drinking mugs, which articles will be given to the Emigrants after arrival in the Colony, provided they behave well on the vovage. 19. The Emigrants must bring their own clothing , which will be inspected at the Port by an Officer of the Commissioners; and all parties are particularly desired to observe that they will not be allowed to embark unless they provide themselves with a sufficient supply for the voyage. The lowest quantity that can be admitted for each person is as follows :-

For MALES.	For FEMALES.
Six Shirts	Six Shirts
Six pairs Stockings	Two Flannel Petticoats
Two ditto Shoes	Six pairs Stockings
Two complete suits of exterior Clothing	Two ditto Shoes
.	Two gowns.

They must also bring their own sheets and towels, and a supply of soap. As a general rule, it may be stated that the more abundant the stock of clothing, the better for health and comfort during the passage. The usual length of the voyage to the Australian Colonies is about four months , and at whatever season of the year it may be made, the Emigrants have to pass through very hot and very cold weather , and should therefore be prepared for both. 20. It is desirable that Emigrants should take out with them the necessary tools of their trades ; bulky agricultural implements, however, cannot be admitted, on account of their inconvenient size and weight; neither can furniture be received on board; mattresses and feather beds are especially prohibited. 21. The whole quantity of baggage for each adult Emigrant must not measure more than 20 cubic or solid feet, nor exceed half a ton weight. It must be divided into two or three boxes, the contents of which must be closely packed, so as to save space in the ship. Large packages and extra baggage will not be taken unless paid for, and then only in case there be room in the ship. 22. Each family will be allowed to take only its own luggage. Any violation of this rule will subject the party to a forfeiture of his passage. 23. On arrival in the Colony. the Emigrants will be at perfect liberty to engage themselves to any one willing to employ them, and to make their own bargain for wages . No re-payment in service or otherwise is required from them for the passage out . The only return expected is a strict observance, on board, of the Regulations framed with a view to their health and comfort during the voyage, and general good conduct and industrious habits in the Colony. 24.- Letters and Applications should be addressed, Post-paid, to Stephen Walcott, Esquire, Secretary to the Board of Emigration, No. 9, Park-street, Westminster. By Order of the Board, (Signed) STEPHEN WALCOTT, Secretary.

SCHEDULE C. FORM OF APPLICATION TO BE USED WHEN PASSAGES ARE DESIRED FOR PARTICULAR INDIVIDUALS. (To be addressed to The Honorable the Colonial Secretary, at Sydney, or to His Honor the Superintendent, at Port Phillip.) SIR, I do myself the honor to request, that I may be authorised to deposit the sum of Pounds, under the provisions of the ninth clause of the Government Notice of the 22nd December, 1848 , so that I may be entitled to obtain passages to this Colony for the undermentioned persons without any further payment, should the said persons be approved by the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners.

Christian Name and Surname at full length of the persons for whom passages are desired.	Age.	Trade or Calling.	Where Living.	Name and Addresses of persons of note to whom reference can be made by the Commissioners respecting the persons wanted.
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I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most obedient Servant,