VPRS 14141 Register of Licensees, Receipt and Pay Office Alexandra, Section 47 Land Act 1869 and Section 119 Land Act 1884

Records of rent payments were kept in Registers of Licensees which gave the date of the license, the name of the licensee, the location (parish, section and allotment) and the extent of the land. Financial details included the details of rent instalments paid. In the column for remarks are notations regarding such matters as forfeiture, revocation and transfers of licenses or leases and any relevant references to correspondence, later purchase of the land or entries in the Government Gazette regarding Ministerial approval of the license and gazette notices for renewal. For Registers such as this maintained by local officers or Receivers of Revenue there may be a signature by the licensee for the receipt of the license.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. The main purposes for which licences were issued in this series were for a rural store, for grazing and for a garden or a garden and residence.Section 119 of the Land Act 1884 allowed for the granting of grazing licences on otherwise unoccupied Crown land.From the start of 1873, the occupation of any Crown land for pastoral purposes was not to be authorized under the usual pastoral license, but by the use of this 7th clause of Section 47. This change indicated a preference for not giving a prolonged tenure for this purpose and for not selling the country involved as new runs. The use of this clause was advocated as it conceded no privileges with respect to length of tenure or occupation.