NRS-20769 | Registers of applications for annual leases [Maitland Land Board Office]

This series contains a summary record of annual lease applications submitted to the Maitland Land Board Office.Annual leases were established under the Crown Lands Act of 1884 (48 Vic. No.18). An annual lease was unoccupied land, not reserved, which could be obtained for grazing purposes upon application to the Local Crown Land Agent. (1)The arrangement of the registers is by land district, within which each new application was numbered in consecutive order from the start of each calendar year. There is an index in the front of each volume arranged alphabetically by applicants' surnames.The register records information such as the number of the application, name and address of applicant, date, amount of rent, deposit area applied for, description of the land, particulars of land in right of which lease is applied for, number of lease granted, and the folio number in the lease register.Department of Lands circular 12/1935 states that by 31 December 1935 bound registers should be replaced by a card system. (2)Endnote1. The Official Year Book of New South Wales 1904-1905. Authority of the Government of the State of New South Wales, W.A. Gullick, Government Printer 1906, p.66.2. NRS 8801, Department of Lands circulars [Crown Land Agent Dungog].