VPRS 15037 Register of Licensees, Echuca, Section 47 Land Act 1869 (Echuca District Survey Office)

The Echuca District Survey office was sent an initial list of licensees under Section 47 Land Act 1869 which were to be placed in the register so later payments could be recorded. As new licensees were published in the Government Gazette, they were to be added to the register.Details given are the number of the license, the date, the name of the licensee, the location of the land and its extent, the purpose for which it was to be used, the rate of payment per year and the record of these payments.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.VPRS 15037/P1 was previously registered as VPRS 1316/P Unit 5. It was reserialised in 2005.