VPRS 17028 Register Book of Mining Titles

This series was created to register a mining lease over Crown land, granted after 2 October 1862, into the Torrens system of land registration. Mining Leases were prepared and executed by the Mines Department and sent to the Office of the Registrar of Titles for registration into the Torrens system land Register for the issuing of a land title. Also, each transfer, sub-lease, mortgage or encumbrance of a lease was registered in the Office of the Registrar of Titles. All land alienated by the Crown in Victoria after 1862 comes under the operation of the Transfer of Land Act that is the Torrens System of Land registration. Mines and minerals were included in the meaning of the word land in Victoria. The Registrar of Titles, under the provisions of Section 5 (1) of the Transfer of Land Act (1958), is responsible for registration and management of land titles in Victoria under the Torrens system. A land title is an official record about who owns or leases a piece of land in Victoria. Generally speaking there are two types of land titles under this act in Victoria - Freehold land and Leasehold land. There are two types of Leaseholds in the land Register, one type is Crown Leases which enables exclusive use of Crown land for a specific term and purpose. The second type are Mining leases, that relate to the mining of Crown land. There were two types of mining leases registered by the Mines Department - gold mining leases and mineral leases. The distinction between gold mining and mineral lease apparently ceased around 1972 when they all became known as mining leases. As the definition of land includes mines and minerals, the Crown alienates the mines and minerals quite separately. When the Governor-in Council decides to grant a mining lease to a particular applicant, a Crown grant of the minerals is issued for a term of years to the lessee. The Crown grant, in the form of the mining lease, is registered by the Registrar of Titles. The mining lease is given a volume and folio number by the Registrar. Registration of a Crown grant takes place when the Registrar notifies the Mines Department of the volume and the folio number of the land Register in which it is entered. The original Crown grant, that is the mining lease, is filed in the Register Book (this series) and the duplicate is returned to the Mines Department. The content of this series includes the original Mining Lease (with plan) which was prepared and executed by the Mines Department. Records created by the Mines Department included Register and Index to Application for Leases and Lease Plans.

本系列数据集旨在将1862年10月2日之后获批的王室领地（Crown land）采矿租约纳入托伦斯土地登记制度（Torrens system of land registration）完成登记。采矿租约由矿业部（Mines Department）拟定并签署，随后送交土地登记官办公室（Office of the Registrar of Titles），以在托伦斯土地登记册中完成登记并核发土地权属证书。此外，租约的每一次转让、分租、抵押或产权负担，均需在土地登记官办公室办理登记手续。
1862年之后，维多利亚州由王室让渡的全部土地均适用《土地转让法》（Transfer of Land Act），即托伦斯土地登记制度。在维多利亚州，‘土地’一词的定义涵盖矿山与矿产资源。根据1958年《土地转让法》第5(1)条的规定，土地登记官负责维多利亚州范围内托伦斯土地登记制度下的土地权属登记与管理工作。
土地权属证书是载明维多利亚州某宗土地所有权或租赁权归属的官方登记文件。根据该法，维多利亚州的土地权属主要分为两类：永久业权土地（Freehold land）与租赁土地（Leasehold land）。土地登记册中的租赁权可分为两类：一类为王室租约（Crown Leases），允许承租人在特定期限及特定用途内专属使用王室土地；另一类为采矿租约（Mining leases），用于王室领地的矿产开采活动。
矿业部曾登记两类采矿租约：金矿采矿租约（gold mining leases）与矿物采矿租约（mineral leases）。二者的区分标准在1972年左右被取消，自此所有此类租约均统一称为采矿租约。由于‘土地’的定义涵盖矿山与矿产资源，王室会单独让渡矿山与矿产资源。当总督会同行政局（Governor-in Council）决定向特定申请人核发采矿租约时，会向承租人签发年期有限的矿产王室授予书。以采矿租约形式存在的王室授予书，由土地登记官完成登记。土地登记官会为该采矿租约分配卷号与幅号。当土地登记官将该王室授予书所登记的土地登记册卷号及幅号通知矿业部时，该授予书的登记流程即正式完成。原始王室授予书（即采矿租约）存档于本系列登记册中，副本则返还矿业部。
本数据集系列的内容包含由矿业部拟定并签署的原始采矿租约（附宗地平面图）。矿业部生成的记录还包括租约申请登记册与索引，以及租约勘测平面图。