Memorandum
Enquiries and Applications having been
addressed to the Colonial Department, respecting
emigration to His Majesty's Foreign Possessions, it
has been deemed convenient with a view to the information
and guidance of individuals interested in this subject,
to state that: 1stly, Persons are not provided with passages
at the public expense, to any of His Majesty's Settlements
2ndly, Persons proceeding at their own expense to North
America and to the Cape of Good Hope, and desirious of
settling there require no previous authority from His
Majesty's Secretary of State to enable them to obtain
grants of Land, the Govenors of those settlements being
fully empowered to assign Lands to applicants, proportioned
to the means which they actually possess for bringing them
into a state of cultivation. The extent of those grants must
depend upon their quality, position, and other circumstances
which can only be ascertained in the Colony.
3rdly, Persons desirous of settling in New South Wales or Van
Diemen's Land, must be provided with the sanction of His
Magesty's Secretary of State, and this can only be obtained
upon written application, accompanied by references of two
or more respectable Persons, as to the Character of the
applicant, and the extent of his capital, which must amount
to Five Hundred Pounds, at the least.
Colonial Department, London
January 1822
