VPRS 13629 Rent Rolls, Alexandra, Sections 47 and 49 Land Act 1869 and Other Sections Land Acts from 1884 to 1901

All licenses for the occupation of Crown lands and leases of Crown lands required the payment of rent in amounts and at intervals as stated by legislation or regulations made under the authority of legislation. Rents could be paid either by post or personally to the Melbourne office of the Department of Crown Lands and Survey (VA 538) or to local Receivers and Paymasters as designated for each parish and Land District (subsequent to the formation of the Occupation Branch in c 1874). Receivers and Paymasters were often local Clerks of Courts.Previous to the passage of the Land Act of 1869, the payment of rents had been recorded in Registers of Licensees and Lessees. These continued for Section 33 of the Land Act 1869 and at the offices of local Receivers and Paymasters. Within the Department of Crown Lands itself and the Occupation Branch these Registers were superseded by the Rent Rolls.Details given in the rent rolls are the name of the licensee or lessee, the details of the location and size of the land, details of the payments of fees and of the date and amount of regular periodic payments of rent. Remarks include details of subsequent purchase of the land, of any transfers of leases or licenses to other holders and the subsequent payments made by those persons, any cancellation or revocation or instances of abandonment of the land by the occupier.Notifications of rents due at a particular date were circulated by notice or by lists published in the Government Gazette. The latter allowed local officers to be aware of the rents due in their areas. When the rents were paid to these officers, the payments were recorded in the local records and returns forwarded to the Department. Examples of these records may be seen in VPRS 809 Returns of Pastoral Rents Received. At the Occupation Branch, clerks (the rent rollers) were employed whose sole duties were the updating and maintenance of the rent rolls and preparation of certificates documenting payments where these were to be credited against the purchase price of land. Originally from about 1877, a rent roll clerk was attached to each "District Land Office" within the Occupation Branch.Rent rolls, like registers of applications, were arranged according to sections of a specific Land Act. For major provisions such as Sections 19 and 20 Land Act 1869 or Section 29 Land Act 1898 and Section 35 Land Act 1901, the rent roll recorded only payments relating to that section . Payments for obligations under other sections of the Land Acts could be included together in one roll. Separate rolls were kept for payments made in each Land District.Section 47 of the Land Act 1869 allowed, as did Section 53 of the Land Act 1862, for a license to be granted for the use of Crown lands not under lease or license under Part II of the 1869 Act. Uses were for the extraction of raw materials such as timber and stone, the processing of rural products in such facilities as brick kilns, to occupy fishermen's' residences, to erect pumps and collect ballast and for any other purpose for which land might be leased under Section 45 of the Act. Clause 7 allowed the depasturing of animals on land not forming part of any run or common.Section 49 of the Land Act 1869 allowed the granting of a license for the occupation of auriferous (gold-bearing) land for a period of one year at a time. The amount of land was to be no more than 20 acres with an individual being permitted to hold one licence only. The fees were to be set by regulation.Section 93 and Section 91 of the Land Act 1884 (Section 99 Land Act 1890 and Section 145 Land Act 1901) provided for the licensing or leasing of Crown lands for a multitude of purposes such as rural businesses, the removal of raw materials and other purposes none of which were to be agricultural or grazing. Licenses were renewable annually at a fee to be set. Leases under the 1884 Act for these purposes were to be of no more than three acres at an annual rental of five pounds.Section 119 Land Act 1884 provided for the issuing of grazing licenses for Crown lands not otherwise held. This provision continued as Section 123 Land Act 1890 and Section 187 Land Act 1901.Section 147 of the Land Act 1901 allowed the licensing of bee-keeping establishments of not more than one acre for one year on any Crown land including that held under an agricultural license or lease or a grazing lease.From late 1907 the Department of Crown Lands and Survey began changing to cards for its recordkeeping systems with the rent roll being reported as mainly on cards by 1917.VPRS 13629 / P1 was previously registered as Unit 2 of VPRS 631 / P Rent Rolls and Unit 60 of VPRS 446 / P / P Application Registers, Land Act 1884.

所有王室土地占用许可证及王室土地租赁协议均要求按立法规定或立法授权制定的规章所载明的金额和期限支付租金。租金可通过邮寄方式支付，或亲自前往王室土地与测量部（VA 538）墨尔本办公室支付，亦可向各教区及土地区指定的当地收款与出纳员支付（自1874年左右占用分支成立后）。收款与出纳员通常为当地法院书记员。1869年《土地法案》通过前，租金支付情况记录于《持照人及承租人登记簿》中。该登记簿在1869年《土地法案》第33条项下及当地收款与出纳员办公室继续使用，但在王室土地部内部及占用分支中，已被租金册取代。租金册中载明的细节包括持照人或承租人姓名、土地位置及面积详情、费用支付详情以及定期租金支付的日期与金额。备注部分涵盖土地后续购买情况、租赁或许可证向其他持有人的转让及受让人后续支付情况、占用者对土地的任何取消、撤销或弃置情形。特定日期到期租金的通知通过公告或《政府公报》刊载的清单予以发布。后者使地方官员得以知晓其辖区内到期的租金。租金支付给这些官员后，相关记录会记入地方档案，并将回执提交至该部。此类记录的示例可见于VPRS 809《牧场租金收入回执》。在占用分支中，雇有专门职员（租金册管理员），其唯一职责为更新与维护租金册，并制备证明文件记录可抵作土地购买价款的支付情况。约自1877年起，占用分支内的每个“地区土地办公室”均配备一名租金册管理员。租金册与申请登记簿类似，均按特定《土地法案》的条款分类编排。对于1869年《土地法案》第19条、第20条，1898年《土地法案》第29条及1901年《土地法案》第35条等主要条款，租金册仅记录与该条款相关的支付。《土地法案》其他条款项下义务的支付可合并记入同一租金册。各土地区的支付情况单独保存租金册。1869年《土地法案》第47条与1862年《土地法案》第53条均允许为使用未根据1869年法案第二部分租赁或取得许可证的王室土地而授予许可证。使用用途包括开采木材、石材等原材料，在砖窑等设施中加工农产品，占用渔民住所，安装水泵及收集压舱物，以及该法案第45条项下可租赁土地的任何其他用途。第7款允许在不属于任何牧场或公地的土地上放牧牲畜。1869年《土地法案》第49条允许授予含金土地（auriferous land）占用许可证，每次期限为一年。土地面积不得超过20英亩，且个人仅可持有一份许可证。费用由规章规定。1884年《土地法案》第93条与第91条（对应1890年《土地法案》第99条及1901年《土地法案》第145条）规定，可为多种用途（如农村商业、原材料开采及其他非农业或放牧用途）对王室土地进行许可或租赁。许可证每年可续期，费用另行规定。根据1884年法案，此类用途的租赁土地面积不得超过3英亩，年租金为5英镑。1884年《土地法案》第119条规定，可为未被其他方式占用的王室土地颁发放牧许可证。该条款延续至1890年《土地法案》第123条及1901年《土地法案》第187条。1901年《土地法案》第147条允许在任何王室土地（包括持农业许可证、租赁或放牧租赁的土地）上授予养蜂场许可证，面积不超过1英亩，期限为一年。自1907年末起，王室土地与测量部开始将其记录系统转换为卡片形式，至1917年，租金册据报已主要采用卡片形式。VPRS 13629/P1先前注册为VPRS 631/P租金册的第2单元，以及VPRS 446/P/P《1884年土地法案申请登记簿》的第60单元。