NRS-20198 | Rate Books [Albury Pastures Protection Board]

This series is comprised of registers recording the payment of rates to the Albury Pastures Protection Board. The registers record the particulars of land and stock, and the amount of rates owing and any payments made, including arrears and interest. There are some changes in the layout of the earlier and later volumes, but the same information appears to have been recorded in all registers.In the earlier volumes, each double page spread has the following heading at the top of the page: "Pastures Protection Board for the District of [name] Assessment for the Year ending [date]." The pages below are divided into columns, with the following headings: Progressive number; Occupier of Holding, name, holding and address; Arrears of rates; acreage of holding, agricultural land, other land; assessed carrying capacity of land other than agricultural land; stock and current rate – large stock and sheep @... per head, amount of rate; Amount of deduction of rates in respects of area enclosed by a rabbit-proof fence, or within a group; total amount of assessment by Board; total amount of assessment on Appeal; total amount of rates payable; payments of rates made, date, amount, folio, cash book; number of receipt; amount of rates still due; particulars of moneys charged on the holding exclusive of rates, how the charge created and date and by whom and to whom amount payable, amount of charge, payments made in respect of charge; date of payment, folio, cash book, amount paid; amount of charge still unpaid exclusive of rates; and finally a space for any further remarks.The Pastures Protection Act no. 111, 1902, section 16(b), states,"Every board shall cause true and regular accounts to be kept of all moneys received or paid by it under this Act, and shall give the owner of any land or the occupier of any private holding within the district access to such accounts at all reasonable hours."The Pastures and Stock Protection Act No. 14, 1898, section 19 states, "The board of every district shall cause books to be provided and true and regular accounts to be entered therein of moneys received and paid under the authority of this Act and the ratepayers in such district shall have access at all reasonable times to such books."