VPRS 1286 Register of Applications, Section 47. Land Act 1862

Section 47 of the Land Act 1865 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.This series registers applications made under this section of the Act. Details given are the number allocated the application, reference numbers (presumably to related correspondence), date of application and date received, the area applied for in acres, roods and perches, the details of the allotment and section, the locality (the parish), the purpose for which the application was being made, the period applied for, the decision regarding the application and to whom the matter was referred. From 1864, a separate column showed whether the advertising fee had been received. This fee was for the advertising of the application for four consecutive weeks in the Government Gazette.The investigation of applications is recorded in VPRS 13017 Particulars of Gazetted Applications, Section 47, Land Act 1862. The actual leases granted under this Section are recorded, with a new control number, in VPRS 13018 Register of Leases, Section 47, Land Act 1862.The former Unit 2 of VPRS 1286/P is now registered as VPRS 13018/P1 Register of Leases, Section 47, Land Act 1862.