VPRS 13780 Rent Rolls, Hamilton, Sections 47 and 49 Land Act 1869 and Other Sections Land Acts from1884 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 Within the Department of Crown Lands itself and the Occupation Branch these Registers were superseded by the Rent Rolls.Details given in the rent rolls are the name of the licensee or lessee, the details of the location and size of the land, details of the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 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 65 of the Land Act 1884 (and Section 103, Land Act 1901) provided for the annual licensing of auriferous (gold-bearing) lands. Areas licensed were to be of no more than 20 acres with only one license being allowed for each individual. There was to be no sale of these lands. This section was amended by Section 90 of the Land Act 1898 providing for the appraisal of these lands. If the value of the land was appraised to be more than the rent already paid on them, the subsequent rental was to be no more than two shillings and sixpence per annum with no annual license fee.Section 67 of the Land Act 1884 allowed for the annual licensing of no more than 1000 acres for grazing on auriferous lands. This was allowed to continue for five years and with the right to mine the land remaining. Under Section 91 of the Land Act 1898, (later Section 105, Land Act 1901) this term was extended to 21 years and the right to fence the land extended to licensees with the land able to be treated as rateable property.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 13780 / P1 was previously registered as Units 109, 115 and 111 of VPRS 631 / P Rent Rolls.

所有王室土地（Crown lands）占用许可及王室土地租赁均需按照立法或依立法授权制定的规章所规定的金额与周期缴纳租金。租金可通过邮寄或亲自缴至王室土地与测量部（Department of Crown Lands and Survey，VA 538）墨尔本办事处，亦可缴至为每个教区和土地区指定的当地收款员与出纳员（Receivers and Paymasters）——该缴费渠道自约1874年土地占用分支部门成立后开始施行。收款员与出纳员通常由当地法院书记员（Clerks of Courts）兼任。
在1869年《土地法（Land Act）》颁布施行之前，租金缴纳情况均记录于《持照人与承租人登记册（Registers of Licensees and Lessees）》中。该登记册在1869年《土地法》第33条相关业务中仍继续使用，并存放在当地收款员与出纳员的办事处。而在王室土地部本部及土地占用分支部门，此类登记册已被租金登记簿（Rent Rolls）取代。
租金登记簿所记载的信息包括持照人或承租人姓名、土地位置与面积详情、各项费用缴纳记录，以及定期租金支付的日期与金额。备注栏涵盖土地后续购置、租赁/许可转让给其他持有人及受让人后续缴费、占用方撤销、废止或放弃土地使用权等相关情形。
特定日期到期的租金缴费通知，可通过公告或刊登于《政府公报（Government Gazette）》的缴费清单发布，后者可帮助当地官员知晓其辖区内的到期租金。当租金缴至当地官员处后，缴费情况会被记入当地档案，并将汇总报表报送至本部。此类档案的示例可参见档案编号VPRS 809《已收牧业租金（Pastoral Rents Received）报表》。土地占用分支部门会雇佣租金登记员，其唯一职责为更新、维护租金登记簿，并编制可证明已缴租金可抵扣土地购置价款的凭证。自约1877年起，土地占用分支部门下属的每个“地区土地办事处（District Land Office）”均配备一名租金登记员。
与申请登记册一致，租金登记簿亦按照特定《土地法》的条款进行分类编排。针对1869年《土地法》第19、20条，1898年《土地法》第29条及1901年《土地法》第35条等核心条款，租金登记簿仅记录对应条款项下的缴费记录；《土地法》其他条款项下的义务缴费，则可合并记入同一登记簿。各土地区均单独设立租金登记簿。
1869年《土地法》第47条（与1862年《土地法》第53条一致）允许颁发许可，用于使用未依据1869年法案第二部分取得租赁或许可的王室土地。许可使用范围包括开采木材、石料等原材料，在砖窑等设施中加工农副产品，用于渔民住宅搭建，安装水泵并收集压舱物，以及依据法案第45条可租赁土地的其他合法用途。该法第7条款允许在不属于任何牧场或公共用地的土地上放牧牲畜。
1869年《土地法》第49条允许颁发为期一年的含金土地（auriferous land）占用许可。单块许可土地面积不得超过20英亩，且个人仅可持有一份该类许可。收费标准由相关规章制定。
1884年《土地法》第65条（及1901年《土地法》第103条）规定对含金土地实施年度许可管理。许可区域面积不得超过20英亩，且个人仅可持有一份许可。此类土地不得进行售卖。该条款经1898年《土地法》第90条修订，新增土地估价条款：若土地估价高于已缴租金，则后续年租金不得超过2先令6便士，且无需缴纳年度许可费。
1884年《土地法》第67条允许对含金土地上不超过1000英亩的区域颁发年度放牧许可，许可有效期为五年，且保留土地采矿权。依据1898年《土地法》第91条（后演变为1901年《土地法》第105条），该许可期限延长至21年，许可持有人可获得围栏土地的权利，土地可被列为应计税财产。
1884年《土地法》第93条与第91条（对应1890年《土地法》第99条、1901年《土地法》第145条）规定，可因多种用途颁发王室土地许可或租赁，涵盖乡村商业活动、原材料外运等，但不得用于农业或放牧。许可可按年续期，费用标准由规章制定。依据1884年法案颁发的此类用途租赁，单块土地面积不得超过3英亩，年租金为5英镑。
1884年《土地法》第119条规定，为未以其他方式持有的王室土地颁发放牧许可。该条款后续分别演变为1890年《土地法》第123条与1901年《土地法》第187条。
1901年《土地法》第147条允许在任何王室土地（包括依农业许可、租赁或放牧租赁持有的土地）上，颁发为期一年、面积不超过1英亩的养蜂场（bee-keeping establishments）许可。
自1907年末起，王室土地与测量部开始将档案记录系统升级为卡片式管理，至1917年，租金登记簿已主要以卡片形式留存。档案编号VPRS 13780 / P1此前被登记为VPRS 631 / P《租金登记簿》的第109、115及111组。