VPRS 13621 Rent Roll, Bendigo Irrigation Settlement Area, Part I, Division 6 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 Within the Department of Crown Lands itself and the Occupation Branch these Registers were superseded by the Rent Rolls.Details given in the rent rolls are the name of the licensee or lessee, the details of the location and size of the land, details of the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.Division 6 of Part I of the Land Act 1901 allowed for the reclamation of swamp lands and their leasing and sale. The scheme dealt with in this rent roll was situated in the parishes of Sandhurst and Wellsford.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 13621 / P1 was previously registered as Unit 71 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土地测量署（Department of Crown Lands and Survey）墨尔本办事处（VA 538），亦可缴至为各教区及土地区指定的当地收支主管（Receivers and Paymasters）——此规则自约1874年占用业务科（Occupation Branch）成立后开始施行。收支主管通常由当地法院书记员（Clerks of Courts）兼任。
1869年《土地法》（Land Act 1869）颁布前，租金缴纳情况均记录于被许可人与承租人登记簿（Registers of Licensees and Lessees）中。该登记簿在1869年《土地法》第33条相关业务中仍继续使用，并存放于当地收支主管的办事处。而在土地署本部及占用业务科内，此类登记簿已被租金登记簿（Rent Rolls）取代。
租金登记簿中记录的详情包括：被许可人或承租人姓名、土地位置与面积详情、规费缴纳详情，以及定期租金支付的日期与金额。备注栏内容包括土地后续收购情况、租赁或许可转让给其他持有人的相关信息及该等受让人后续的缴费记录、土地许可被取消或撤销，或占用人弃置土地的案例。
特定日期到期的租金催缴通知会通过公告或刊登于政府公报（Government Gazette）的名单发布。此类名单可让当地官员知晓其辖区内的到期租金情况。当租金缴至当地官员处时，缴纳情况会记录于当地档案，并将回执报送至土地署。此类档案的示例可参见VPRS 809《收到的牧业租金回执》。在占用业务科内，会聘用书记员（即租金登记员），其唯一职责为更新和维护租金登记簿，并开具可用于抵扣土地收购价款的缴费证明。自约1877年起，占用业务科下的每个地区土地办事处（District Land Office）均会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》的条款进行编排。对于1869年《土地法》第19、20条，1898年《土地法》（Land Act 1898）第29条以及1901年《土地法》（Land Act 1901）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。每个土地区均会单独设立租金登记簿。
1901年《土地法》第一部分第6条允许对沼泽地进行开垦、租赁及出售。本租金登记簿所涉及的相关方案位于桑德赫斯特（Sandhurst）和韦尔斯福德（Wellsford）教区内。
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，租金登记簿已基本转为卡片形式。VPRS 13621 / P1此前曾登记为VPRS 631 / P《租金登记簿》的第71单元。