VPRS 13017 Particulars of Gazetted Applications, Section 47, Land Act 1862

Section 47 of the Land Act 1862 allowed leases for up to thirty acres to be granted for 'novel industrial enterprises'. The section specifically mentions vineyards, oliveyards or mulberry or hop plantations or any "useful plant or industrial enterprise or process which was previously unknown or not generally known". No more than one hundred of these leases were to be granted in any year and the term was not to exceed thirty years. In the subsequent clause of the Act, the lessee had a pre-emptive right of purchase on the expiry of the lease or after five years at the price of one pound per acre.Applications were registered in VPRS 1286 Register of Applications, Section 47, Land Act 1862. Those selected as satisfying the selection criteria in the Act were then advertised in the Government Gazette for four consecutive weeks. This series records the course of these applications and the basis for the final decision made with respect to them. Details given are a number given exclusively in this record, the name of the applicant, the locality including the allotment and section and acreage applied for, the particulars of the application being the proposed usage of the land, surveyor's reports and recommendation. Besides the report from the District Survey Office, this section was also used to record the extent and nature of any objections to the application whilst the recommendations section was used to give the final decision and the proposed rent per acre. The applications dealt with in this record are primarily those for the full allowed thirty acres.