VPRS 13632 Rent Roll, Alexandra, Section 32 Land Act 1884

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 Within the Department of Crown Lands itself and the Occupation Branch these Registers were superseded by the Rent Rolls.Details given in the rent rolls are the name of the licensee or lessee, the details of the location and size of the land, details of the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 32 of the Land Act 1884 (as confirmed in the consolidated Land Act 1890) allowed for the leasing of Crown land for grazing purposes. Lands thus leased could not be purchased and were to revert to the Crown after the expiration of fourteen years. No person was to hold more than one lease and no one lease was to exceed 1000 acres. Land was to be appraised for the purpose of setting a rental of between twopence and fourpence per acre witth the right to levy an additional rental of five pounds per cent per annum based on the capital value of improvements made on the leasehold. Special conditions of occupation were to be the control of vermin and noxious weeds, to keep any improvements in repair, to fence the land and to not cut any timber. The Crown was able to resume the land at any time for certain specific purposes listed in the Act or if the lease conditions were not complied with or at the conclusion of the fourteen years with compensation to be paid to the lessee for any improvements made.An agricultural allotment of not more than 320 acres could be excised from such a leasehold under the same conditions as was set out in Section 42 of the Act. 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. A license to occupy would then be issued for land thus selected.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 13632 / P1 was previously registered as Unit 6 of VPRS 631 / P Rent Rolls and Unit 61 of VPRS 446 / P Applications Registers, Land Act 1884.所有王室土地（Crown lands）占用许可及王室土地租约，均需按照立法或依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缴的方式，缴纳至土地与测量署（Department of Crown Lands and Survey）墨尔本办事处（档案编号VA 538），或缴纳至各教区与土地行政区指定的地方收款与出纳员——该指定机制自1874年左右占地管理科（Occupation Branch）成立后开始实施。地方收款与出纳员通常由当地法院书记员兼任。在1869年《土地法》（Land Act 1869）通过之前，租金缴纳情况均记录于许可持有人与租约持有人登记簿中。该登记簿在1869年《土地法》第33条相关事务中仍被沿用，并留存于地方收款与出纳员办事处。但在土地与测量署本部及占地管理科内，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信息包括：许可持有人或租约持有人姓名、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。备注栏信息则涵盖：土地后续购置情况、租约或许可证向其他持有人的转让及受让人后续缴纳款项的记录、土地被取消或撤销许可的情况，以及占有人遗弃土地的相关记录。特定日期到期的租金缴款通知，可通过公告或刊载于《政府公报》（Government Gazette）的清单进行发布。后者可让当地官员及时掌握辖区内的到期租金情况。当租金缴纳至上述官员处时，相关款项会记录于当地档案，并将报表报送至土地与测量署本部。此类档案的示例可参见档案编号VPRS 809《已收畜牧租金报表》。占地管理科内雇佣有专职办事员（即租金登记簿管理员），其唯一职责为更新、维护租金登记簿，并编制缴款证明文件——此类证明可用于抵扣土地购置价款。自约1877年起，占地管理科下属的各“地区土地办事处”均配备一名租金登记簿管理员。租金登记簿与申请登记簿一样，均按照特定《土地法》的条款进行分类编排。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》其他条款项下义务对应的缴款，则可合并记录于同一本登记簿中。各土地行政区的缴款记录则单独成册。1884年《土地法》（Land Act 1884）第32条（经1890年合并版《土地法》确认）允许将王室土地出租用于畜牧用途。此类租赁土地不得购置，且在14年租期届满后需归还王室。个人不得持有多于一份租约，且单份租约对应的土地面积不得超过1000英亩。土地需先进行估值，以确定每英亩2便士至4便士的基础租金，并可按照租赁土地改良工程的资本价值，每年征收相当于资本价值5%的额外租金。租赁需遵守的特殊条款包括：防治有害动物与杂草、维护改良工程完好、对土地进行围栏，以及禁止砍伐林木。王室可在以下任一情形下随时收回土地：法案列明的特定公共用途需求、承租人违反租约条款，或14年租期届满——且若为后两种情形，王室需就承租人所做的改良工程支付相应补偿。可从该类租赁土地中划出不超过320英亩的农业用地，其适用条款与法案第42条规定一致。此前已依据旧版土地法选定该面积土地的人员，不得适用本条款。此前选定土地面积不足320英亩的人员，可补足差额至320英亩。针对此类补足后的土地，将颁发占用许可。自1907年末起，土地与测量署开始将档案记录系统转为卡片式管理，至1917年时，租金登记簿的记录已基本转为卡片形式。档案编号VPRS 13632 / P1此前曾分别登记为VPRS 631 / P《租金登记簿（Rent Rolls）》第6单元，以及VPRS 446 / P《1884年土地法（Land Act 1884）申请登记簿》第61单元。