VPRS 13692 Rent Rolls, Kerang, Section 29 Land Act 1898 and Section 35 Land Act 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 Within the Department of Crown Lands itself and the Occupation Branch these Registers were superseded by the Rent Rolls.Details given in the rent rolls are the name of the licensee or lessee, the details of the location and size of the land, details of the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 29 of the Land Act 1898 (later Section 35 under the consolidated Land Act 1901) succeeded Section 32 Land Act 1884 as the means whereby grazing areas could be leased from the Crown. Land was able to be leased for any term until 29 December 1920 when the land would revert to the Crown. Land was divided into classes for the purpose of the lease. Two hundred acres of first-class land might be leased, 640 acres of second-class land, 1280 acres of third-class land and 1920 acres of fourth-class land. A permanent agricultural allotment could be selected from leaseholds of first and second-class land and a grazing allotment from third and fourth -class land.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 13692 / P1 was previously registered as Unit 233 of VPRS 631 / P Rent Rolls.

所有王室领地（Crown lands）占用许可及王室领地租赁均需按立法规定或立法授权制定的规章所载明的金额与期限支付租金。租金可通过邮寄方式支付，或亲自交至王室土地与测量部（Department of Crown Lands and Survey，VA 538）墨尔本办事处，亦可交至为各教区及土地分区指定的地方收款与出纳员（Receivers and Paymasters）（约1874年占用处（Occupation Branch）成立后）。收款与出纳员通常由地方法院书记员兼任。

《1869年土地法》通过前，租金支付情况记录于《许可人与承租人登记簿》中。该记录方式在《1869年土地法》第33条项下及地方收款与出纳员办事处继续沿用。在王室土地部内部及占用处，这些登记簿被租金册（Rent Rolls）取代。

租金册中记载的详情包括许可人或承租人姓名、土地位置与面积详情、费用支付详情，以及定期租金支付的日期与金额。备注部分包含土地后续购买详情、租赁或许可权向其他持有人的转让及受让人后续支付情况、任何取消或撤销事项，以及占用者弃置土地的实例。

特定日期到期租金的通知通过公告或《政府公报》（Government Gazette）刊登的清单发布。后者使地方官员能够了解其辖区内到期的租金情况。租金交至这些官员后，支付情况会记录在地方档案中，并将报表提交至该部门。此类记录的示例可见于VPRS 809《已收牧场地租报表》。

在占用处，雇佣了专门负责更新与维护租金册的职员（称为租金册管理员），并在支付款项可抵作土地购买价款时，准备记录该支付情况的证明文件。约自1877年起，占用处下属各分区土地办事处（District Land Office）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》的条款分类编排。对于《1869年土地法》第19条与第20条、《1898年土地法》第29条及《1901年土地法》第35条等主要条款，租金册仅记录与该条款相关的支付情况。《土地法》其他条款项下义务的支付情况可合并记录于同一租金册中。各土地分区的支付情况单独立卷。

《1898年土地法》第29条（后在《1901年统一土地法》中改为第35条）取代《1884年土地法》第32条，成为从王室租赁牧场地的依据。土地租赁期限不限，但需于1920年12月29日归还王室。为租赁目的，土地被划分为不同等级：一级土地可租赁200英亩，二级土地640英亩，三级土地1280英亩，四级土地1920英亩。可从一级及二级土地租赁权中选择永久性农业地块，从三级及四级土地租赁权中选择牧场地块。

自1907年末起，王室土地与测量部开始将记录系统转为卡片式，到1917年，租金册已主要以卡片形式存在。VPRS 13692/P1此前曾注册为VPRS 631/P《租金册》的第233单元。