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By 1859 only 343,916 acres of the land of the colony of Victoria had been alienated. [5] The Victorian Parliament passed Land Acts in 1860, 1862 [6] and 1869, [7] which offered settlers land within defined agricultural areas. Settlers paid for half of an allotment on selection at a uniform price of £1 per acre and paid rent on the other half ...
A Select Committee on the Sale of Crown Lands was chaired by C. H. Goode in 1865; however its report was of marginal value. [2] By the mid-1860s dense mallee scrub still covered several large tracts of land, and the South Australian Parliament passed the Scrub Lands Act 1866, intended to encourage settlers on the land. By this act, blocks of up ...
1852 map of eastern Victoria, showing seven proposed counties 1877 map of the counties of Victoria. Following the unauthorised settlement of settlers from Tasmania (then called Van Diemen's Land) in the future Melbourne in 1835, in September 1836, Governor Bourke established the Port Phillip District of New South Wales.
After three unsuccessful seasons growing cotton, the Cabulture Cotton Company put the property up for sale. [7] George Raff purchased Portion 10 in 1866 for £1000. [8] [9] Raff purchased additional land immediately adjacent to Portion 10. Portions 24 and 25 to the east were purchased in April 1867, and Portion 26 to the west in May 1868.
Location of Victoria County in Texas. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Victoria County, Texas. This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Victoria County, Texas. There are one district and 114 individual properties listed on the ...
The following year land was put up for sale. Squatters took up land at Honeysuckle Run soon after. The town remained empty in spite of the sale of town blocks until 1846 when the Royal Mail Hotel was opened and then a village began to grow. [4] By the 1860s the town had expanded to include three hotels, a bakery and a school.
If the land settlement in the new areas was rapid, a new land district was often formed e.g. Cairns – Port Douglas; Cardwell – Innisfail. [4] Land was defined as agricultural, first class pastoral or second class pastoral under the Crown Lands Alienation Act 1868, under which the initial land selection in the colony was done. [4]
The state of Victoria was originally home to many Aboriginal nations that had occupied the land for tens of thousands of years. [1] According to Gary Presland , Aboriginal people have lived in Victoria for about 40,000 years, [ 2 ] living a semi-nomadic existence of fishing, hunting and gathering, and farming eels , as is evident in the Budj ...