, 1869-04-06

Tor introducing the immigrant into the ISianG,
but within such limits in regard to the amount
thus to be paid, as may be fixed by the Gov
eminent after previous deliberation with the
Colonial Council" and stated, that the rules
in force until further in reference to the max
imum limits of the amounts to be paid to the
Immigrationfund by the party employing an
immigrant for the 2nd or 3rd year, and to the
manner in whichesuch amounts are to be dis
posed of, are laid down in the motives TO the
Provisional Ordinance which preceded the
aforesaid Ordinance of End July 1866, and in
the Governments Letter, of 4th September
1865 to the Colonial Council, in the contents
OF which letter the Council agreed. According
to those rules the maximum TO be paid by any
one employing an immigrant for the End or
the 3rd year is Sc for any immigrant above Ia
years of age at the time of his arrival, and 81
for any immigrant between IL and ID years at
the time of arrival. With reference to the
manner in which these sums are to be disposed
of, the Immigrationfund will first have to be
refunded that portion of its outlay for the intro
duction of the immigrant, which exceeds one
fourth part of all the expenses for his introduce
ton the remainder of the sum will fall to the
first employer, who had betrayed the expenses
for the introduction of the immigrant with con-
tribution from the Immigrationfund. If, for
Instance, the total expense for the introduction
of an immigrant were 1924, of which the Immi-
grationfund had contributed ] part or IS, and
the fist employer SIG, the amount paid for the
End year will be used thus the Immigation-
fund will receive So and the remainder 81 will
be paid to the first employer but the whole
sum paid for the Bird year, Sc, will fall to the
first employer. But if the total expense for
the introduction of ar immigrant were only SIG,
of which the lmmigrationfund had contributed
the half, or SIS, that fund will receive the
whole amount paid for the End year, $4 the
first employer will get the amount paid for the
3rd year, 81. The obligation to pay the stipu-
lated sums for the 2nd or 3rd year rests not
only on the party who takes an immigrant in
his service, but also on the one retaining an
immigrant in his service in those years, but of
course he will not be requested to pay that por-
ton of the amount which is to fall to himself.
He was happy to have the opportunity OF hav-
ing these calculations, because an erroneous
opinion of the matter seems to be generally
prevailing among the estates proprietors, the
result of which was that the assignments that
had been issued for those portions Of the
amount that were to be paid by certain parties,
have remained unsettled. The circumstance,
that the Immigrationfund, instead of contribu-
ting only ] part Of all the expenses subject to
future repayment as was originally intended,
has subsequently engag ed to contribute up to
the half Of the expenses, not more, however,
than So for an adult and Sc for a non-adult i'm
migrant besides the port-charges on the vessel,
or a portion of them), has naturally led to the
result, that the re-payments to the Immigra-
tionfund have in all cases where the total ex-
penses were below $24 (and this has fortunately
here of late been almost always the case) been
proportionately larger, in order that the contri-
button from the Immigrationfund could be re-
duced to ! of all the expenses. The repayments
for the first year, amounted to about $1,000,