Guardians to child immigrants amendment (1849) (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

ANN() DUODECIMO

VICTORIA?, REGINA

No. 16

An Ordinance to extend the provisions of an Ordinance to Regulate the Apprenticeship and otherwise to provide for the Guardianship and Control of a certain class of Juvenile Immigrants to other classes than those specially mentioned therein.

[Assented to 9th May, 1849.

Preamble

HEREAS it is expedient to provide for the care, superintendence

Wor hereafter may be from time to time sent to the Colony of Westernand apprenticeship of such poor children as already have been

Australia either at the expense of Her Majesty's Government or of parishes or of charitable institutions or societies in the United Kingdom or other parts of the British Empire, to be established and provided for in the said Colony as should seem most for their benefit and future advantage ; and whereas for such object it is expedient that His Excellency the Governor of the said Colony shall have power and authority to cause all such children as aforesaid to be put out as apprentices at fit and proper ages respectively to such masters and mistresses and to such trades as to the said Governor should seem proper ; and whereas an Ordinance of the Legislative Council of the Colony was passed in the sixth year of the reign of Her present Majesty intituled An Act to Regulate the Apprenticeship and other- wise to provide for the Guardianship and Control of a certain class of

G Vie„ No. 8,

Juvenile Immigrants ; ' and whereas the said Ordinance appears to be

made applicable

to other juvenile

suitable in every respect also to the class of children first herein above

immigrants

mentioned : Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Western Australia and its Dependencies, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, that all the clauses, powers and provisions of the said Ordinance shall be deemed and taken to be applicable to the class of immigrants herein first alluded to as if the

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same had been specially referred to and mentioned therein ; and that the Guardian of Government Juvenile Immigrants mentioned in the said Ordinance shall henceforth, without any change of his official designation, be deemed the official guardian of the said class of immi- grants herein first alluded to ; and that the form of deed of apprentice- ship given in the Schedule to the said Ordinance annexed shall be used for the apprenticeship of the class herein first alluded to ; substituting references to this Ordinance for the references to the said Ordinance contained in the said form as set forth in the said Schedule.

CHARLES FITZGERALD,

GOVERNOR AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF.