VPRS 13811 Rent Rolls, Horsham, Sections 47 and 49 Land Act 1869 and Other Sections 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 Within the Department of Crown Lands itself and the Occupation Branch these Registers were superseded by the Rent Rolls.Details given in the rent rolls are the name of the licensee or lessee, the details of the location and size of the land, details of the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 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.Section 49 of the Land Act 1869 allowed the granting of a license for the occupation of auriferous (gold-bearing) land for a period of one year at a time. The amount of land was to be no more than 20 acres with an individual being permitted to hold one licence only. The fees were to be set by regulation.Section 65 of the Land Act 1884 (and Section 103 Land Act 1901) provided for the annual licensing of auriferous (gold-bearing) lands. Areas licensed were to be of no more than 20 acres with only one license being allowed for each individual. There was to be no sale of these lands. This section was amended by Section 90 of the Land Act 1898 providing for the appraisal of these lands. If the value of the land was appraised to be more than the rent already paid on them, the subsequent rental was to be no more than two shillings and sixpence per annum with no annual license fee.Section 67 of the Land Act 1884 allowed for the annual licensing of no more than 1000 acres for grazing on auriferous lands. This was allowed to continue for five years and with the right to mine the land remaining. Under Section 91 of the Land Act 1898, (later Section 105 Land Act 1901) this term was extended to 21 years and the right to fence the land extended to licensees with the land able to be treated as rateable property.Section 93 and Section 91 of the Land Act 1884 (Section 99 Land Act 1890 and Section 145 Land Act 1901) provided for the licensing or leasing of Crown lands for a multitude of purposes such as rural businesses, the removal of raw materials and other purposes none of which were to be agricultural or grazing. Licenses were renewable annually at a fee to be set. Leases under the 1884 Act for these purposes were to be of no more than three acres at an annual rental of five pounds.Section 119 Land Act 1884 provided for the issuing of grazing licenses for Crown lands not otherwise held. This provision continued as Section 123 Land Act 1890 and Section 187 Land Act 1901.Section 147 of the Land Act 1901 allowed the licensing of bee-keeping establishments of not more than one acre for one year on any Crown land including that held under an agricultural license or lease or a grazing lease.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 13811 / P1 was previously registered as Units 127 and 131 of VPRS 631 / P Rent Rolls and Units 5 and 6 of VPRS 1300 / P Rent Roll - Other Purposes.

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自缴至王室土地与测量部（Department of Crown Lands and Survey，VA 538）墨尔本办事处，亦可缴至各教区与土地辖区指定的地方收款主管（Receivers and Paymasters）——该岗位于1874年左右土地占用事务分支（Occupation Branch）成立后设立。地方收款主管通常由当地法院书记官（Clerks of Courts）兼任。
在1869年《土地法》通过之前，租金缴纳情况均记录于《持照人与承租人登记簿（Registers of Licensees and Lessees）》中。该登记簿延续适用于1869年《土地法》第33条，并留存于地方收款主管的办事处。在王室土地部及土地占用事务分支内部，此类登记簿已被《租金登记簿（Rent Rolls）》取代。
租金登记簿中记载的信息包括持照人或承租人姓名、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。备注栏涵盖土地后续购买、租赁或许可证转让至其他持有人及该等持有人后续付款情况，以及土地被占用者取消许可、撤销租赁或遗弃土地的相关记录。
特定日期到期的租金缴纳通知可通过公告或刊登于《政府公报（Government Gazette）》的缴款清单进行发布。后者可让地方官员知晓其辖区内的到期租金。当租金缴至这些官员处时，缴纳情况会记录于地方档案，并将报表报送至本部。此类档案的示例可查阅VPRS 809《牧地租金收缴报表》。
在土地占用事务分支内，机构雇佣了专门的办事员（即租金登记员，rent rollers），其唯一职责为更新与维护租金登记簿，并编制可用于抵免土地购买价款的缴款证明。自1877年左右起，土地占用事务分支下的每个“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簿一样，均按照特定《土地法（Land Act）》的条款进行编排。针对1869年《土地法》第19、20条，1898年《土地法》第29条及1901年《土地法》第35条等核心条款，租金登记簿仅记录与该条款相关的缴款记录。而《土地法》其他条款项下的义务缴纳款项则可合并记入同一登记簿。每个土地辖区的缴纳款项均设有单独的登记簿。
1869年《土地法》第47条与1862年《土地法》第53条均规定，可颁发许可以使用未纳入1869年法案第二部分租赁或许可范围的王室土地。许可用途包括提取木材、石材等原材料，在砖窑等设施中加工农产品，用于渔民住宅搭建、安装水泵及收集压舱物，以及本法案第45条规定的可租赁土地的其他任何用途。第7条款允许在不属于任何牧场或公共用地的土地上放牧牲畜。
1869年《土地法》第49条允许颁发为期一年的含金（auriferous）土地占用许可。单块许可土地面积不得超过20英亩，且个人仅可持有一份许可。许可费用由相关法规制定。
1884年《土地法》第65条（1901年《土地法》第103条）规定对含金土地进行年度许可。许可区域面积不得超过20英亩，且个人仅可持有一份许可。此类土地不得进行售卖。该条款经1898年《土地法》第90条修订，新增土地估价相关规定。若土地估价高于已缴纳的租金，则后续年度租金不得超过2先令6便士，且无需缴纳年度许可费。
1884年《土地法》第67条允许对含金土地上不超过1000英亩的区域颁发年度放牧许可，许可有效期为五年，且保留土地采矿权。根据1898年《土地法》第91条（后演变为1901年《土地法》第105条），许可期限延长至21年，许可人获得围栏土地的权利，且该土地可被视为应纳税财产。
1884年《土地法》第93、91条（1890年《土地法》第99条、1901年《土地法》第145条）规定，可出于多种用途为王室土地颁发许可或租赁，包括农村经营、原材料开采及其他非农业或放牧用途。许可每年可续期，续期费用由相关法规制定。根据1884年法案颁发的此类用途租赁，面积不得超过3英亩，年租金为5英镑。
1884年《土地法》第119条规定，可为未以其他方式持有使用权的王室土地颁发放牧许可。该条款后续分别演变为1890年《土地法》第123条及1901年《土地法》第187条。
1901年《土地法》第147条允许在任何王室土地（包括持有农业许可、租赁或放牧租赁的土地）上设立不超过1英亩的养蜂场，许可有效期为一年。
1907年末起，王室土地与测量部开始将记录系统改为卡片式，至1917年，租金登记簿的记录形式已主要为卡片形式。
VPRS 13811 / P1原登记为VPRS 631 / P《租金登记簿》的第127、131组，以及VPRS 1300 / P《其他用途租金登记簿》的第5、6组。