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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Rare Volume

Rules of the Paisley New Zealand Emigration Society

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Rules of the Paisley New Zealand Emigration Society.

I. This Society shall be called "The Paisley New Zealand Emigration Society," And Its object is declared to be, to persevere in the employment of all proper means, to procure from Government free passages for its members, with a grant of land for their location, with the view of founding a Scotch Colony in New Zealand.

II. All working men desirous of going out with their families, and settling in New Zealand under Government regulatioans, and not disqualified on account of bad character, shall be eligible as members of the Society. The admission of members to be by a poll vote of the Society; it being in the power, however, of any single member, on this as well as all other points, to call for the ballot; and should the conduct of any member be declared refractory by 9-10ths of the members present at any meeting, he shall be liable to expulsion.

III. Individuals not belonging to the labouring classes shall be eligible as honorary members of the Society, and shall be entitled to attend the meetings, and take part in the proceedings, and to vote the same as the other members.

IV. Meetings of the Society shall be held in the Philosophical Hall, or other suitable place, every Saturday evening; and those meetings shall be public, and reporters of the public press may attend; hut none but members shall be entitled to speak or vote.

V. The affairs of the Society shall be managed by a committee of six honorary and twelve ordinary members, from whom shall be chosen a Chairman, Vice-Chairman, Secretary, Treasurer, and Committee of Finance.

VI. The Funds of the Society shall be collected by public subscription, and by voluntary contribution of its members, and of the public at each meeting—it being understood that no member shall ever contribute leas than one penny at each meeting; and two members of the committee shall be appointed to superintend the collections at the door every meeting.

VII. The Funds of the Society shall be paid, as they are collected from time to time, into the Glasgow Union Bank, Paisley, in name of the treasurer; and shall not be drawn therefrom, except by an order from the Finance Committee; and the Secretary and Treasurer shall keep proper books, in which shall be inserted all minutes of meetings, and all sums received and paid on account of the Society.

VIII. As it is desirable that persons of capital should go out to New Zealand, at the same time that working men are sent out, so that the proper relation betwixt capital and labour may be preserved—all such persone are invited to intimate their intention to the Society, and to become honorary members. The Society, however, is perfectly satisfied that employers will be more in want of labourers, than labourers, will be of employers, in New Zealand.

IX. The Society, being sensible of the great importance of securing the means of moral and religious instruction, in the event of Government acceding to their request, application shall be made, in the proper quarter, for the appointment of and prevision for a clergyman and schoolmaster to go along with them.

J. Neilson, Printer.