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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 Trea-
aury, 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.