VPRS 13690 Rent Roll, Kerang, Section 32 Land Act 1884.

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 Within the Department of Crown Lands itself and the Occupation Branch these Registers were superseded by the Rent Rolls.Details given in the rent rolls are the name of the licensee or lessee, the details of the location and size of the land, details of the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 32 of the Land Act 1884 (as confirmed in the consolidated Land Act 1890) allowed for the leasing of Crown land for grazing purposes. Lands thus leased could not be purchased and were to revert to the Crown after the expiration of fourteen years. No person was to hold more than one lease and no one lease was to exceed 1000 acres. Land was to be appraised for the purpose of setting a rental of between twopence and fourpence per acre witth the right to levy an additional rental of five pounds per cent per annum based on the capital value of improvements made on the leasehold. Special conditions of occupation were to be the control of vermin and noxious weeds, to keep any improvements in repair, to fence the land and to not cut any timber. The Crown was able to resume the land at any time for certain specific purposes listed in the Act or if the lease conditions were not complied with or at the conclusion of the fourteen years with compensation to be paid to the lessee for any improvements made.An agricultural allotment of not more than 320 acres could be excised from such a leasehold under the same conditions as was set out in Section 42 of the Act. Persons who had selected that amount of land under previous land Acts were not eligible for this provision. Those who had selected less than the 320 acres could select the amount of land necessary to make it up to 320 acres. A license to occupy would then be issued for land thus selected.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 13690 / P1 was previously registered as Unit 200 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立法授权制定的法规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土地与测量署（Department of Crown Lands and Survey，编号VA 538）墨尔本办事处，亦可缴至为每个教区和土地区指定的地方收款与出纳员（Receivers and Paymasters）——该指定机制始于1874年左右租赁管理科（Occupation Branch）成立之后。收款与出纳员通常由当地法院书记员（Clerks of Courts）兼任。
在1869年《土地法案》（Land Act 1869）通过之前，租金缴纳情况均记录于被许可方与承租方登记簿中。该登记簿在1869年《土地法案》第33条相关事项中仍被沿用，并存放于地方收款与出纳员办事处。而在土地署本部及租赁管理科内，此类登记簿已被租金台账（Rent Rolls）取代。
租金台账所记录的信息包括：被许可方或承租方姓名、土地位置与面积详情、费用缴纳详情，以及定期租金支付的日期与金额。备注栏内容涵盖土地后续购置、租赁或许可证转让至其他持有人及该受让人后续缴纳款项的详情、土地被占用方取消、撤销或弃置的相关情况。
特定日期到期租金的缴款通知可通过公告或刊载于《政府公报》（Government Gazette）的清单进行发布。后者可让地方官员知晓其辖区内的到期租金情况。当租金缴至上述官员处时，缴款情况会被记录于地方档案，并将回执报送至土地署。此类档案的示例可参见档案编号VPRS 809的《已收畜牧租金回执》（Returns of Pastoral Rents Received）。
在租赁管理科内，聘用了专职职员（即租金台账管理员），其唯一职责为更新和维护租金台账，并编制用于证明缴款情况的证书，此类缴款可用于抵扣土地购置价款。自1877年左右起，租赁管理科内每个“地区土地办事处”均配备一名租金台账管理员。
租金台账与申请登记簿一样，均按照特定《土地法案》的条款进行编排。针对1869年《土地法案》（Land Act 1869）第19、20条、1898年《土地法案》（Land Act 1898）第29条以及1901年《土地法案》（Land Act 1901）第35条这类主要条款，租金台账仅记录与该条款相关的缴款情况。而依据《土地法案》其他条款产生的缴款义务，则可合并记录于同一台账。每个土地区均单独设立台账以记录其缴款情况。
1884年《土地法案》（Land Act 1884）第32条（经1890年合并版《土地法案》确认）允许将王室土地出租用于放牧用途。此类租赁土地不得转让，且在租期届满14年后需归还王室。任何人不得持有多于一份租赁协议，且单份租赁协议的面积不得超过1000英亩。土地估值需按每英亩2便士至4便士的标准设定租金，并可依据租赁地块改良设施的资本价值，按年加收资本价值5%的额外租金。占用的特殊条件包括：管控有害动物与杂草、维护所有改良设施、围栏土地且不得砍伐木材。王室可出于法案列明的特定目的、或在租赁方违反租赁条款时、或在14年租期届满时随时收回土地，届时需向承租方就其改良设施支付相应补偿。
可依据本法案第42条规定的相同条件，从此类租赁地块中划出不超过320英亩的农业分配地块。依据此前土地法案选定该面积土地的人员，不得享受此项条款。此前选定土地面积不足320英亩的人员，可补充选定差额面积以达到320英亩，随后将为该选定土地颁发占用许可证。
自1907年末起，土地与测量署开始将其档案记录系统改为卡片式台账，截至1917年，租金台账已基本转为卡片形式。
档案编号VPRS 13690 / P1此前登记为VPRS 631 / P《租金台账》（Rent Rolls）的第200单元。