VPRS 13269 Register of Lessees, Portland, Section 12 Amending Land Act 1865

Section 12 of the Amending Land Act 1865 allowed persons to make application for the outright purchase or selection or for a lease of land in declared, surveyed and proclaimed agricultural areas for the purposes of residence and cultivation. The lease could be granted for a term of seven years at a rent of two shillings per acre per annum with the lease to be executed within three months of application.. Rent was to be paid half-yearly with a half-years rent in advance. The lessee was to reside upon the land for at least three years and make improvements to it. If these terms were met, after that three years, there was a right of purchase of the land at he price of one pound per acre. Allotments, as determined by the Board of Land and Works, were to be between 40 and 640 acres with no individual being able to select more than 640 acres per year.Applications were to be made in the form set down in the Schedules to the Act in person at a land office and be accompanied by a half-years rent in advance. The priority of the order of applications was to be determined by lot. Any refusal of an application was to be notified within thirty days in the Government Gazette with the reasons for refusal or disallowance being given.Applications were to be made in person at a land office and be accompanied by the purchase price of the whole lot or the purchase price for half and one years rent in advance for the other half. Applications were to be entered into a register, which was to be open to public inspection, by the land officer (see VPRS 13096/P1 and VPRS 1284/P). The priority of the order of applications was to be determined by lot. Any refusal of an application was to be notified within thirty days in the Government Gazette with the reasons for refusal or disallowance being given.For the recording of the progressive payment of rents, Registers of Lessees were created and maintained by the officials in Melbourne responsible for the records relating to these sections of the Act. Initially, these were based on the location of the offices of the Receivers of Revenue (a departmental officer or another designated Crown officer such as a Clerk of Courts). Lessees would pay rent to the local Receiver of Revenue convenient to their location, returns of payments would be forwarded to the office of the Department of Crown Lands and Survey in Melbourne where they would be recorded in the appropriate register. With the formation of the Occupation Branch and the conduct of business according to the District Offices established, these registers were then allocated to a specific District Office within the Occupation Branch. Records within these registers may be for properties which, after 1874, were located in parishes which had been allocated to different District Offices.The Register of Lessees recorded the date of the lease or its reference number, the county and parish, the extent of the land being the allotment and section and area and for each year, the number of the report (regarding observance of the conditions of the lease) and the amount of rent to be paid in half-yearly instalments. A remarks column contains notations regarding the subsequent purchase of the land, the transfer to another lessee or to a section of the Land Act 1869 (usually Section 33) or any cancellation, transfer or revocation of the lease. Other Registers also contain notations regarding the location of the Land Office where the land had been originally selected or the Act and Section under which it had been originally leased. These notations are often accompanied by a correspondence number or a reference to an entry in the Government Gazette.VPRS 13269/P1 was previously registered as Unit 14 of VPRS 1295/P Leases Book.

《1865年土地修订法案》（Amending Land Act 1865）第12条允许个人申请永久购地、选地，或租赁已公告、勘测并划定的农业区域内的土地，用于居住与耕作。租赁期限可定为7年，租金为每英亩每年2先令，且申请人须在申请获批后的3个月内完成租赁手续。租金须每半年支付一次，并预付半年租金。承租人应在土地上至少居住3年，并对土地进行改良。若满足上述条件，3年期满后，承租人有权以每英亩1英镑的价格购得该土地。土地与工程委员会（Board of Land and Works）划定的分配地块面积须介于40英亩至640英亩之间，且个人每年选地面积不得超过640英亩。

申请人须亲自前往土地办公室，提交法案附表中规定格式的申请，并预付半年租金。申请顺序的优先级将通过抽签决定。若申请被驳回，须在30日内于《政府公报》（Government Gazette）上发布通知，并说明驳回或不予批准的理由。申请人须亲自前往土地办公室提交申请，若全额购地则需支付全部地块的购地款；若仅支付一半购地款，则需预付另一半地块的1年租金。土地办事员须将申请录入向公众开放的登记簿（详见VPRS 13096/P1与VPRS 1284/P）。申请顺序的优先级将通过抽签决定。若申请被驳回，须在30日内于《政府公报》上发布通知，并说明驳回或不予批准的理由。

为记录租金的分期缴纳情况，墨尔本负责该法案相关档案的官员创建并维护了承租人登记簿（Registers of Lessees）。最初，这些登记簿以税收接收官（Receivers of Revenue，部门官员或其他指定王室官员，如法院书记员）的办公地点为依据进行划分。承租人须向居住地附近的当地税收接收官缴纳租金，缴款凭证须转交至墨尔本的王室土地与勘测部（Department of Crown Lands and Survey）办公室，由其在相应登记簿中完成记录。随着占用事务科（Occupation Branch）的成立，并根据设立的地区办事处开展业务，这些登记簿随后被分配至占用事务科内的特定地区办事处。1874年之后，部分登记簿中的记录可能对应位于已分配至不同地区办事处的地籍教区内的土地。

承租人登记簿记录了租赁日期或其参考编号、所在郡与地籍教区、地块的范围（含分配编号、区段与面积），以及每一年的租赁合规报告编号与半年度分期应缴租金金额。备注栏包含以下相关标注：土地后续购得情况、转让给其他承租人、适用《1869年土地法案》（通常为第33条）的情况，或租赁的任何撤销、转让与废止记录。其他登记簿还包含土地最初选地所在的土地办公室位置，或土地最初租赁依据的法案与条款的相关标注。此类标注通常附带函件编号，或指向《政府公报》中某条记录的引用信息。

VPRS 13269/P1 原登记为 VPRS 1295/P 租赁簿的第14单元。