VPRS 13832 Rent Roll, Sale, Pastoral Leases Section 16 Land Act 1898

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 Within the Department of Crown Lands itself and the Occupation Branch these Registers were superseded by the Rent Rolls.Details given in the rent rolls are the name of the licensee or lessee, the details of the location and size of the land, details of the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 16 of the Land Act stated that pastoral leases, under the terms and conditions provided for in Sections 22 to 25 of the Land Act 1890, could be granted to expire no later than 29 December 1909. Not more than one such lease was to be granted to an individual.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 13832 / P1 was previously registered as Unit 194 of VPRS 631 / P Rent Rolls.

所有官有土地占用许可及官有土地租赁协议，均需严格依照立法文件或立法授权制定的规章所规定的金额与周期缴纳租金。租金缴纳渠道分为两种：可通过邮寄，或亲自前往官地勘查部（Department of Crown Lands and Survey）墨尔本办事处（档案编号VA 538）缴纳；亦可缴纳至各教区及土地辖区指定的地方收款出纳员，该指定机制自1874年左右土地占用科（Occupation Branch）成立后正式施行。地方收款出纳员通常由当地法院书记员兼任。1869年《土地法》颁布前，租金缴纳情况均记录于《持证人与承租人登记册》中。该登记册在1869年《土地法》第33条相关业务中仍继续沿用，并留存于地方收款出纳员办事处。而在官地勘查部本部及土地占用科内，此类登记册已被租金登记簿（Rent Rolls）取代。《租金登记簿》记载的信息包括：持证人或承租人姓名、土地位置与面积详情、各类费用缴纳记录，以及定期租金的缴纳日期与金额。备注栏涵盖以下内容：土地后续买卖情况、租赁或许可转让给第三方的详情及受让人后续缴纳的租金、土地被占用方撤销、废止或遗弃的相关案例。特定日期应缴租金的通知可通过纸质公告或《政府公报（Government Gazette）》刊载的清单发布。后者可帮助地方官员及时掌握辖区内的应缴租金情况。租金缴纳至上述人员处后，相关记录会留存于地方档案，并将缴纳回执报送至本部。此类档案的示例可参见档案编号VPRS 809的《已收牧业租金回执》（Returns of Pastoral Rents Received）。土地占用科内设有专职办事员，其工作职责仅为更新、维护《租金登记簿》，以及开具可用于抵扣土地购置款的缴纳凭证。自1877年左右起，土地占用科下辖的每个“地区土地办事处”均配备一名租金登记员。《租金登记簿》与申请登记册一样，均按照特定《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》仅记录与该条款相关的缴纳款项；而《土地法》其他条款项下的义务缴纳款项，则可合并记录于同一登记簿。每个土地辖区的缴纳款项均单独设立登记簿。《土地法》第16条规定，依照1890年《土地法》第22至25条规定授予的牧业租赁，有效期不得晚于1909年12月29日终止；且同一自然人仅可获得一份此类租赁。1907年末起，官地勘查部开始将档案记录系统转换为卡片式管理；至1917年时，《租金登记簿》已主要以卡片形式留存。档案编号VPRS 13832 / P1原登记为VPRS 631 / P《租金登记簿》的第194单元。