VPRS 13777 Rent Rolls, Bairnsdale, Section 29 Land Act 1898 and Section 35 Land Act 1901

All licenses for the occupation of Crown lands and leases of Crown lands required the payment of rent in amounts and at intervals as stated by legislation or regulations made under the authority of legislation. Rents could be paid either by post or personally to the Melbourne office of the Department of Crown Lands and Survey (VA 538) or to local Receivers and Paymasters as designated for each parish and Land District (subsequent to the formation of the Occupation Branch in c 1874). Receivers and Paymasters were often local Clerks of Courts.Previous to the passage of the Land Act of 1869, the payment of rents had been recorded in Registers of Licensees and Lessees. These continued for Section 33 of the Land Act 1869 and at the offices of local Receivers and Paymasters. Within the Department of Crown Lands itself and the Occupation Branch these Registers were superseded by the Rent Rolls.Details given in the rent rolls are the name of the licensee or lessee, the details of the location and size of the land, details of the payments of fees and of the date and amount of regular periodic payments of rent. Remarks include details of subsequent purchase of the land, of any transfers of leases or licenses to other holders and the subsequent payments made by those persons, any cancellation or revocation or instances of abandonment of the land by the occupier.Notifications of rents due at a particular date were circulated by notice or by lists published in the Government Gazette. The latter allowed local officers to be aware of the rents due in their areas. When the rents were paid to these officers, the payments were recorded in the local records and returns forwarded to the Department. Examples of these records may be seen in VPRS 809 Returns of Pastoral Rents Received. At the Occupation Branch, clerks (the rent rollers) were employed whose sole duties were the updating and maintenance of the rent rolls and preparation of certificates documenting payments where these were to be credited against the purchase price of land. Originally from about 1877, a rent roll clerk was attached to each "District Land Office" within the Occupation Branch.Rent rolls, like registers of applications, were arranged according to sections of a specific Land Act. For major provisions such as Sections 19 and 20, Land Act 1869 or Section 29, Land Act 1898 and Section 35, Land Act 1901, the rent roll recorded only payments relating to that section. Payments for obligations under other sections of the Land Acts could be included together in one roll. Separate rolls were kept for payments made in each Land District.Section 29 of the Land Act 1898 (later Section 35 under the consolidated Land Act 1901) succeeded Section 32, Land Act 1884 as the means whereby grazing areas could be leased from the Crown. Land was able to be leased for any term until 29 December 1920 when the land would revert to the Crown. Land was divided into classes for the purpose of the lease. Two hundred acres of first-class land might be leased, 640 acres of second-class land, 1280 acres of third-class land and 1920 acres of fourth-class land. A permanent agricultural allotment could be selected from leaseholds of first and second-class land and a grazing allotment from third and fourth-class land.From late 1907 the Department of Crown Lands and Survey began changing to cards for its recordkeeping systems with the rent roll being reported as mainly on cards by 1917.VPRS 13777 / P1 was previously registered as Units 24 and 25 of VPRS 631 / P Rent Rolls.

所有王室土地（Crown lands）占用许可及王室土地租赁均需按照立法或立法授权制定的规章所规定的金额与周期缴纳租金。租金可通过邮寄或亲赴土地测量署（Department of Crown Lands and Survey，档案编号VA 538）墨尔本办事处缴纳，亦可缴纳至各教区及土地辖区指定的本地收款及出纳员（Receivers and Paymasters）——该机制自1874年左右占用分支部门成立后开始推行。本地收款及出纳员通常由本地法院书记官兼任。

在1869年《土地法》（Land Act）通过之前，租金缴纳情况均记录于许可持有人与租赁持有人登记册（Registers of Licensees and Lessees）中。该登记册在1869年《土地法》第33条框架下继续沿用，并留存于本地收款及出纳员办事处。而在土地测量署本部及占用分支部门，此类登记册已被租金登记簿（Rent Rolls）取代。

租金登记簿所记载的信息包括：许可持有人或租赁持有人姓名、土地位置与面积详情、费用缴纳明细，以及定期租金支付的日期与金额。备注栏内容涵盖土地后续购买情况、租赁或许可向其他持有人的转让及受让人后续缴纳款项的记录、土地许可被取消/撤销或占用人弃置土地的相关情形。

租金到期通知会通过公告或刊载于《政府公报》（Government Gazette）的缴费清单进行发布，此举可让本地官员及时掌握辖区内的到期租金情况。当租金缴纳至本地官员处后，相关缴费信息会录入本地档案，并将回执报送至土地测量署本部。此类档案的示例可参阅VPRS 809《已收牧业租金回执》（Returns of Pastoral Rents Received）。在占用分支部门，设有专职职员（租金登记员，rent rollers），其职责仅为更新、维护租金登记簿，并开具缴纳证明，此类证明可用于抵扣土地购买价款。自1877年左右起，占用分支部门下的每个"地区土地办事处"（District Land Office）均配备一名租金登记员。

租金登记簿与申请登记册一样，均按照特定《土地法》的条款进行编排。对于1869年《土地法》第19、20条，或1898年《土地法》第29条、1901年《合并土地法》（consolidated Land Act）第35条这类核心条款，租金登记簿仅记录与该条款相关的缴费款项；而依据《土地法》其他条款产生的缴费义务，则可合并记录于同一登记簿中。每个土地辖区均设有独立的租金登记簿。

1898年《土地法》第29条（后在1901年《合并土地法》中调整为第35条）取代1884年《土地法》第32条，成为从王室租赁放牧用地的法定依据。土地租赁可设定任意期限，直至1920年12月29日土地归还王室。

租赁土地按等级划分：一等土地可租赁200英亩，二等土地640英亩，三等土地1280英亩，四等土地1920英亩。永久农业用地（permanent agricultural allotment）可从一、二等土地租赁地块中选取，放牧用地（grazing allotment）则从三、四等土地租赁地块中选取。

自1907年末起，土地测量署开始改用卡片系统进行档案管理（recordkeeping systems），至1917年，租金登记簿已基本转为卡片形式。

VPRS 13777 / P1原登记为VPRS 631 / P《租金登记簿》（Rent Rolls）的第24、25单元。