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Series ID5882
Previous System LocationLAN/185 - LAN/191; LAN/223 - LAN/224. PRV9742/1; PRV9706/1.; SRS5882
Title

Selections in Agricultural Reserves
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Start Date 10/27/1860
End Date 11/27/1911
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Abstract

Land selected in Agricultural Reserves

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Items Total Items: 585
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System of Arrangement Numerical within each Land Agent's District
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Agency IDTitleFromTo
18Lands Department 10/27/1860 11/27/1911
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Agency ID: 11171
Environment and Resource Management Department
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Description

The "Crown Lands Alienation Act of 1860" directed that no less than 100,000 acres be set aside for agricultural purposes on the shores or navigable waters of Moreton Bay, Wide Bay, Port Curtis and Keppel Bay, and at least 10,000 acres within five miles of all towns with more than 500 inhabitants, as well as any other areas that from time to time may be required. Lands were to be set aside, surveyed and called Agricultural Reserves. This land was not to be submitted to public auction, but sold at a fixed price of twenty shillings per acre subject to provisions laid out in the Act.

Prospective settlers had to apply at the office of the Land Agent nearest to the reserve and point out on a map the lot or lots they wished to select and pay in advance twenty shillings for every acre. If within six months he had occupied and begun to improve or cultivate the land, then a deed of grant would be issued. If the conditions were not carried out the purchase money, less ten per cent would be returned and the land again opened for selection.

Section 12 of the Act allowed the occupant of a farm to lease any vacant portion adjoining the farm for 5 years at a yearly rent of six pence per acre and under certain conditions to purchase it. No farm was to be less than 40 acres and no one could purchase more than 320 acres in the same reserve.

The "Agricultural Reserves Act of 1863" repealed and replaced some sections of the 1860 Act. The "Leasing Act of 1866" included land not taken up under the 1863 Act.

Section 67 of the "Crown Lands Alienation Act of 1868" enabled land leased under the earlier Acts to be brought under the provisions of the 1868 Act in specific circumstances.

These files are the result of this arrangement. They were kept by the Department in selection number order although this number is not always apparent on the file. The files may include any or all of the following documents: application to purchase, lease, transfer, Government Gazette notices, application to bring lease under the provisions of the 1868 Act, power of attorney, notices of forfeiture, deed of grant and correspondence. On a few files there are much later papers regarding, for example, road cases.
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Preferred Citation

Queensland State Archives Series ID 5882, Selections in Agricultural Reserves
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