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agricultural allotments amended annual rental annum applied arca Australasia blocks cash cent colony Commissioners comprised conditional purchase convicts Crown Lands cultivation deferred payment disposed Division effect exceeding extent farms fee simple fence five fixed free grants freehold Gipps Government Governor Governor Gipps grazing head of cattle held holders homestead immigrants improvements increase interest Land Board land orders land system Lands Act Legislative Council less lessee Mallee matter ment method million acres mineral Minister obtained occupation Orders-in-Council paid Parliament pastoral lands pastoral leases pastoral purposes pastoralists period persons population Port Phillip district portion possession pre-emptive right present provinces public estate purchase money Queensland quit-rents regulations rent reserves residence result right of purchase runs rural selectors settled districts settlement sheep soil South Australia South Wales square mile squatters squatting Sydney Tasmania tenure term tion total area town upset price Victoria Western Australia Zealand
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Page 13 - That the colonists have derived many advantages from the transportation of convicts, cannot be denied ; but the system has brought with it a long train of moral evils, which can only be counteracted by an extensive introduction of free and virtuous inhabitants ; and the only means upon which the colonists can safely rely for accomplishing this vital object, is the revenue arising from the sale of lands. It...
Page 22 - During the continuance of any lease of lands occupied as a run, the same shall not be open to purchase by any other person or persons except the lessee thereof.
Page 12 - Any purchaser who, within ten years after his purchase, shall, by the employment and maintenance of convicts, have relieved the public from a charge equal to ten times the amount of the purchase money, will have the purchase money returned, but without interest.
Page 66 - Colony, from making grants or sales of any lands within the limits of the run or lands comprised in such lease for public purposes, or disposing of in such other manner as for the public interest may seem best, such lands as may be required for the sites of churches, schools, or parsonages, or for the construction of high roads or railways and railway stations, or other internal communications, whether by land or water, or for the use or benefit of the aboriginal inhabitants of the country, or for...
Page 13 - Report, they trust it will not be deemed irrelevant to state their opinion of the justice as well as the policy of applying the proceeds of the Crown Lands exclusively to the introduction of a moral and industrious class of inhabitants. The first Emigrants were induced to embark their fortunes in this distant Colony under the promise of receiving free Grants of...
Page 63 - ... security against improvident appropriation of Crown Land at an inadequate price. As this settlement, although within your Government, is at a considerable distance from Sydney, I think it essential that separate accounts should be kept of the sale of the Crown Lands in the District of Port Phillip, and that the proceeds of such sales should be applied to the improvement of this new settlement, and especially in the introduction of free emigrants, who would supply the demand for labour without...
Page 44 - ... exhibit a tendency to increase at anything like the same rate. An examination of the table reveals the fact...