VPRS 14411 Register of Applications, St Arnaud, Mallee Lands (St Arnaud District Land Office)

Mallee lands were classified as those in the Mallee region of Victoria and those on the Mallee border in the Land Districts of Horsham, Kerang and St Arnaud. This series consists of Registers of Applications for a lease of or a licence to occupy Mallee lands in the St Arnaud Land District. They relate to applications for Mallee allotments under Section 15 of the Mallee Pastoral Leases Act 1883 and Section 157 of the Land Act 1890, and applications for agricultural allotments of Mallee Lands under Section 3 of the The Mallee Act 1889 (Sections 7 and 19 Mallee Lands Act 1896 and Sections 217 and 218 of the Land Act 1901. Details in these registers were sent to the Mallee Division of the Occupation Branch of VA 538 Department of Crown Lands and Survey for registration in other registers there (see VPRS 14405 and VPRS 14367).Details given are the allocated file number, the name and location of the applicant, the location of the land (often given as county rather than parish) and its area and the decision of a Local Lands Board. The remarks column was used for notations relating to the receipt and sending of correspondence and the management of the file.Sections 15 to 17 of the Mallee Pastoral Leases Act 1883 (later Section 157, Land Act 1890) set out the terms and conditions for these leases. Mallee allotments were to be for not more than twenty years, with half a year's rent being payable in advance. At the end of the lease, the land and all improvements were to revert to the Crown. Existing occupiers of the land were entitled to the lease of one Mallee allotment if they applied within one month. Otherwise, the land was to become part of that generally available. By the 1890 Land Act, the area of all allotments held by one person was not to exceed 20,000 acres.Section 3 of The Mallee Act 1889 permitted lessees of Mallee allotments to select an area of up to 320 acres out of that allotment as an agricultural allotment. The conditions were to be the same as those pertaining to agricultural allotments in the Land Act 1884. Section 19 of the Mallee Lands Act 1896 continued this provision with the maximum amount of land able to be licensed or leased as an agricultural allotment being 640 acres. The same privilege of selection of an agricultural allotment from Mallee lands was extended to non-Mallee allotment lessees in Section 7 of this same Act, with lessees able to select outside their leased areas.Unit 2 of VPRS 14411 / P waqs previously registered as Unit 3 of VPRS 457 / P Application Registers, Section 3, Mallee Act 1889.

马利地块（Mallee lands）指两类土地：一是维多利亚州马利地区内的土地，二是位于霍舍姆（Horsham）、凯朗（Kerang）和圣阿诺德（St Arnaud）土地辖区的马利边境土地。
本数据集包含圣阿诺德土地辖区内马利地块租赁或占用许可申请登记簿。
该系列登记簿涵盖两类申请：其一为依据1883年《马利畜牧租赁法》第15条及1890年《土地法》第157条提出的马利地块租赁申请；其二为依据1889年《马利法》第3条（1896年《马利土地法》第7、19条及1901年《土地法》第217、218条）提出的马利地块农业分配申请。
本登记簿中的登记信息将被移交至王室土地与测量部（Department of Crown Lands and Survey）VA 538档案的占用分支马利分部，用于在该分部的其他登记簿中完成备案（详见VPRS 14405与VPRS 14367）。
登记簿所载信息包括：分配档案编号、申请人姓名及住址、土地位置（通常以郡而非教区标注）、土地面积，以及地方土地委员会的审批结果。备注栏用于记录与函件收发及档案管理相关的标注内容。
1883年《马利畜牧租赁法》第15至17条（后于1890年《土地法》中调整为第157条）规定了此类租赁的条款与条件。马利地块的租赁期限不得超过20年，且需提前预付半年租金。租赁期满后，土地及所有地上改良设施均需归还王室。现有土地占用者若在1个月内提出申请，有权获得一块马利地块的租赁权；否则该地块将纳入公开可分配的土地范围。根据1890年《土地法》，个人持有的所有地块总面积不得超过20000英亩。
1889年《马利法》第3条允许马利地块的承租人从其所持地块中划出至多320英亩作为农业分配地块，相关条件与1884年《土地法》中农业分配地块的规定一致。1896年《马利土地法》第19条延续了这一规定，但将农业分配地块的许可或租赁最大面积调整为640英亩。该法第7条将从马利地块中选取农业分配地块的特权扩展至非马利地块承租人，承租人可在其租赁范围外选取地块。
VPRS 14411/P的第2单元此前曾以VPRS 457/P第3单元的名称登记，对应1889年《马利法》第3条的申请登记簿。