AGENT-GENERAL, LONDON

13

D.— No. Li

Enclosure in No. 10. Articles of Agreement entered into this seventeenth day of February, 1872, between Sir Geoege Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Atichael and St. George, as Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, for and on behalf of the said Colony, by Isaac Earl Featherston, Agent-General of New Zealand, of the one part, and Louis Knoee and Compant, of the free City of Hamburg, of the other part: Whkeebt the said Louis Knorr and Company, for the consideration hereinafter mentioned, agree with said Government as follows : —To procure and convey from Hamburg to any safe port of New Zealand, a number of emigrants, equal to two thousand statute adults or equal to such, to be shipped within two years from, the present date, the said Louis Knorr and Company having the right to ship the whole number of two thousand emigrants as soon as may be convenient to themselves ; the number to be shipped within the first twelve months from the present date to be, however, not less than one thousand adults. The port of destination is to be named by the said Agent-General one month previous to the fixed day of sailing of each separate ship, and the number of emigrants for each port not to be less than about three hundred adults. The day of sailing of each separate ship is to be fixed by the said Louis Knorr and Co., but no ship is to be dispatched except between the months of April and October, both inclusive. One month's notice of the fixed day of sailing of each vessel is to be given by Louis Knorr and Co. to the said Agent-General. The -^emigrants shall consist of unmarried females between the ages of sixteen and thirty-five years, of young married couples with not more than from one to three children under twelve years of age (for any children in excess full passage money is to be paid by the emigrants), and of not more than ten per cent, of the whole number shipped in each vessel of unmarried men not over {ortj-&ve years of age. All the emigrants must produce certificates of good moral character from the magistrate or clergyman of the parish in which they reside, and of the religious denomination to which they belong; they must be selected from the rural districts, and the men must have been employed as agricultural labourers. All the emigrants must be in good health, of sound constitution, and must have been vaccinated. No person is eligible when above forty-five years of age. All emigrants will be required to pay the cost of their outfit, for bedding and mess utensils, which will not exceed ten thalers, and which will be supplied by the said Louis Knorr and Co. No emigrant shall be allowed to embark unless they have provided themselves with suitable and sufficient clothing for the voyage, as customary in Germany. The vessels used for the conveyance of such emigrants shall be first-class (at Lloyd's or French Veritas) fast sailing vessels. The space allowed to each statue adult, as before defined, on board ship shall be fifteen superficial feet, English. The between decks shall be divided for passengers in three compartments only, namely, for single men, married couples, and single women; and there shall be at least ouo separate hatchway and ladder-way from each compartment to the upper deck. The unmarried emigrants of the one sex shall bo separated from those of the other sex by proper bulkheads aud the hospitals. The supply of the distilling apparatus or, in lieu thereof, one quarter-hogshead of water extra per adult, the lifeboats, fire-engines, and the fittings and general arrangements of the several ships in which the emigrants shall be conveyed, shall in all respects be in conformity with the Acts of the British. Parliament relating to the conveyance of passengers or emigrants, and shall be such as shall be approved of in writing by the said Agent-General or the officer appointed by him. In all other respects, the laws and customs of the States of the German Empire shall be substituted for the English laws and customs, so far as may be deemed expedient by the Commissioner of the German Empire for the inspection of passenger ships, Captain Weickmann, of the Imperial German Navy. The said Louis Knorr and Co. will during the voyages, and at their own cost, provide each statute adult, upon the days and at the times specified in the following scale, with provisions of the descriptions and quantities following, that is to say:— For each statute adult, on every Sunday during the voyage, half a pound of preserved beef, and half a pound of flour for pudding, with four ounces of raisins. On Monday, half a pound of salt pork and half a pound of peas or sauerkraut; on every Tuesday, half a pound of salt beef and half a pound of barley or lentils ; on every Wednesday, herring or half a pound of salt fish and half a pound of lentils or of haricot beans; on every Thursday, half a pound of preserved mutton and half a pound of flour for pudding, with four ounces of prunes ; on every Friday, half a pound of salt pork and half a pound of peas for soup ; on every Saturday, half a pound of salted beef, and half a pound of rice with treacle. Every day three quarts of water, besides such as may be required for cooking purposes, besides weekly for every passenger three pounds of potatoes, five pounds of white biscuits, five-twelfths of a pound of butter, two ounces of coffee, one ounce of tea, six ounces of sugar, four ounces of treacle, six ounces of lime juice, and the necessary vinegar, salt, and pepper. And will supply each ship with a stock of provisions of the different descriptions sufficient for a voyage of 154 days, allowing for each statute adult upon the said scale. The said Louis Knorr and Co. will also at the like cost provide every ship with the medical comforts of the descriptions and in the quantities following, that is to say:—For every hundred statute adults carried by such ship, twenty-eight pounds of Carolina rice, twenty pounds of oatmeal, ten pounds of arrowroot, thirty pounds of barley, twenty-five pounds of sago, ten pounds of tapioca, two pounds of Liebeg's meat extract or two hundred and fifty portions preserved meat soup, forty pounds of preserved meat, twenty pounds of preserved beef and mutton in one pound tins, two hundred pounds of loaf sugar (Melis), thirty-six bottles of claret, eighteen bottles of sherry, twelve bottles of gin, twenty dozen bottles Bavarian beer, five gallons of vinegar, ten pounds of preserved milk, one hundred pounds of soap, three pounds of hops, one hundred pounds of quicklime. The said Louis Knorr and Co. will also at the like cost supply each ship with one chest containing the medicines and drugs usually found in a ship's medicine chest, the surgeon appointed to every ship providing his own instruments. The said ships, with their fittings and arrangements, and all the provisions, medical comforts, and 4