VPRS 13742 Rent Roll, Omeo, Agricultural and Grazing Licenses and Leases, Land Acts from 1884 to 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 Within the Department of Crown Lands itself and the Occupation Branch these Registers were superseded by the Rent Rolls.Details given in the rent rolls are the name of the licensee or lessee, the details of the location and size of the land, details of the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 42 of the Land Act 1884 (as confirmed in the consolidated Land Act 1890) provided for the issue to grazing area lessees (under Section 32 of the same Act) of licences to occupy for agricultural allotments not exceeding 320 acres in extent. . Persons who had selected that amount of land under previous Land Acts were not eligible for this provision. Those who had selected less than the 320 acres could select the amount of land necessary to make it up to 320 acres.Rent was set at one shilling per acre per annum with the licensee to reside on the allotment and make improvements to it. During the period of this license the land could be resumed by the Crown for a number of specified purposes with the repayment of any rentals or if the terms of the license were not complied with If these conditions and conditions relating to the control of vermin and fencing were complied with, at the end of this time a lease for up to 14 years was able to be applied for at the rental of one shilling per acre per annum or a Crown grant could be obtained by the payment of the full purchase price of fourteen shillings per acre. Lessees could obtain a Crown grant at any time during this fourteen year period by the payment of the difference between the rent already paid under the lease and the set price of fourteen shillings per acre.This Section was amended in Section 44 of the Land Act 1898 to divide lands into three classes for the purpose of the licensing of these agricultural allotments. No more than 200 acres of first-class lands were to be licensed at the rent of one shilling per acre per annum; no more than three hundred and twenty acres of second-class land at the annual rental of ninepence per acre. Both types of land were to be licensed for no more than six years.In the 1898 Act, Sections 58 and 59 provided for the extension of the licensing and leasing provisions for agricultural allotments to grazing allotments. Sections 59 and 61 of the Land Act 1898 allowed for the issue of residential or non-residential licenses for grazing allotments on third class land. A license to occupy could initially be issued for up to six years for 640 acres. If conditions relating to the provision of fencing and the destruction of vermin were met, a lease for 14 years could be obtained at a cost of sixpence per acre. Rent payments could be used to defray the cost of purchase at ten shillings per acre.Under the consolidated Land Act of 1901, agricultural allotments were dealt with under Sections 47 (licensing) and 49 (leasing) and grazing allotments by Sections 54 (licensing) and Section 56 (leasing).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 13742 / P1 was previously registered as Units 176 and 177 of VPRS 631 / P Rent Rolls.

所有王室土地占用许可及王室土地租赁均需按照立法或依立法授权制定的法规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地方收款员处——该指定机制始于1874年左右占用分支（Occupation Branch）设立之后。收款员通常为当地法院书记员。
在1869年《土地法案（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簿中。该登记簿在1869年《土地法案》第33条相关规定下仍继续沿用，并存放在地方收款员办事处。而在土地测量署本部及占用分支内，此类登记簿已被租金登记簿（Rent Rolls）取代。
租金登记簿所记录的详情包括许可持有人或租赁持有人姓名、土地位置与面积详情、费用缴纳详情，以及定期租金支付的日期与金额。备注栏则包含土地后续购置、租赁或许可转让至其他持有人及受让人后续缴纳款项的相关详情，以及土地被占用方取消、撤销或遗弃的相关案例。
特定日期到期应付的租金会通过公告或刊登于《政府公报》的清单进行通知。后者可让地方官员知晓其辖区内的应付租金情况。当租金缴纳至这些官员处时，相关缴纳情况会记录于地方档案，并将报表报送至本部。此类记录的示例可参见档案VPRS 809《已收畜牧租金报表（Returns of Pastoral Rents Received）》。在占用分支内，受雇的办事员（即租金登记簿管理员）的唯一职责为更新和维护租金登记簿，并开具用于抵扣土地购置价款的缴款证明。自1877年左右起，占用分支下的每个“地区土地办事处”均配备一名租金登记簿管理员。
与申请登记簿一样，租金登记簿亦按照特定《土地法案》的条款进行编排。针对1869年《土地法案》第19、20条或1898年《土地法案》第29条、1901年《土地法案》第35条等主要条款，租金登记簿仅记录与该条款相关的缴款。而依据《土地法案》其他条款产生的缴款义务，则可合并记录于同一登记簿中。每个土地辖区均单独设立租金登记簿。
1884年《土地法案》第42条（经1890年合并版《土地法案》确认）规定，向畜牧区租赁持有人（依据同一法案第32条）发放许可，用于占用面积不超过320英亩的农业地块。依据此前《土地法案》选定该面积土地的人员无权享受该条款。此前选定面积不足320英亩的人员，可补足差额以达到320英亩。
租金定为每英亩每年1先令，许可持有人需在地块上居住并进行改良。在许可有效期内，王室可因若干指定用途收回土地，并退还已缴纳的租金；若许可条款未被遵守，则不予退还。若遵守该条款及关于害兽防控与围栏建设的相关要求，许可期满后，可申请期限最长为14年的租赁，租金仍为每英亩每年1先令；亦可通过缴纳每英亩14先令的全额购置价款，获得王室土地授予（Crown grant）。租赁持有人可在这14年期间的任意时刻，通过缴纳已缴租金与每英亩14先令的固定价款之间的差额，换取王室土地授予。
该条款经1898年《土地法案》第44条修订，将此类农业地块许可划分为三类。一类土地的许可面积不得超过200英亩，租金为每英亩每年1先令；二类土地的许可面积不得超过320英亩，年租金为每英亩9便士。两类土地的许可期限均不得超过6年。
1898年《土地法案》第58、59条规定，将农业地块的许可与租赁条款扩展至畜牧地块。1898年《土地法案》第59、61条允许为三类土地上的畜牧地块发放居住或非居住许可。初始的占用许可期限最长可达6年，对应面积为640英亩。若满足围栏建设与害兽灭杀的相关条件，可申请期限为14年的租赁，费用为每英亩6便士。已缴租金可用于抵扣每英亩10先令的购置价款。
依据1901年合并版《土地法案》，农业地块由第47条（许可）和第49条（租赁）规范，畜牧地块则由第54条（许可）和第56条（租赁）规范。
1907年末起，土地测量署开始改用卡片系统进行档案管理，至1917年，租金登记簿的载体已基本转为卡片。VPRS 13742 / P1此前登记为VPRS 631 / P《租金登记簿（Rent Rolls）》的第176、177单元。