VPRS 859 Approved Schedules and Applications for Licenses, Section 47 Land Act 1869

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This series contains applications for the issuing of a license or the transfer or the renewal of a license under Section 47 of the Land Act 1869. The series also contains schedules (or lists) for renewals and applications prepared for the approval of the Board of Land and Works and for publication in the Government Gazette.

Details given are the number of the license, the name of the licensee (and where applicable the names of transferor and transferee), the area and location of the land, the date of the license, the amount of fees due and where they were to be paid to the Receiver of Revenue.

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 fishermens' 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.

From the start of 1873, the occupation of any Crown land for pastoral purposes was not to be authorized under the usual pastoral license, but by the use of this 7th clause of Section 47. This change indicated a preference for not giving a prolonged tenure for this purpose and for not selling the country involved as new runs. The use of this clause was advocated as it conceded no privileges with respect to length of tenure or occupation.

More details respecting licensees under Section 47 of the Land Act 1869 may be found in the Registers of Applications and Rent Rolls for this Section kept for each Land District. Files may be found by consulting VPRS 7311 Catalogue of Crown Lands and Survey Files: File Number Order (Microfiche) or VPRS 7312 Catalogue of Crown Lands and Survey Files: Parish/Town Order (Microfiche).