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VPRS 17039 Newspaper Clippings
No full textNewspaper cuttings regarding the Antarctic, meteors, daylight saving, astronomy, meteorology, weights and measures and other government matters from the Age, Argus and Herald
VPRS 11391 Draft Committee Minutes
No full textThis series may contain the draft minutes of a single committee or a number of committees.<br/><br/>The committee system is employed by most Victorian councils. A committee may be appointed by a council for any purpose which it is felt would be better regulated and managed by such committee. A committee may be either a standing committee or an occasional committee. Standing committees (in areas such as finance, public works, health, and so on) are appointed to oversee specific matters on an ongoing basis. Such committees submit reports to the council regularly and these are included in the Council Minutes. Occasional committees are appointed for shorter terms to manage such things as arrangements for ceremonial occasions. Membership of committees is made up of some or all of the councillors of the municipality.<br/><br/>The Municipal Institutions Act 1863 (No.184) introduced provisions that required councils to appoint committees and specified that committee minutes should be kept and signed by the chairman at the following meeting. The Local Government Act 1874 (No.506) included the requirement that committees report to council (no prohibition existed against councils operating with committees prior to these Acts). The Local Government Act 1903 (No.1893) removed the requirement that minutes be kept and added the requirement that committees' reports to council be included in the council minutes. Subsequent legislation including the Local Government Act 1958 (No.6299) has continued these requirements.<br/><br/>Draft minutes generally record the names of councillors who attended the meeting, details of agenda items and decisions made and sometimes, the names of those who voted for or against a motion. Draft minutes were made while the meetings were in progress in note form. Certified minutes are created from the draft minutes
VPRS 2819 Magpies [CANCELLED: REPROCESSED AS VPRS 12011/P1]
No full textMagpies [CANCELLED: REPROCESSED AS VPRS 12011/P1
VPRS 2807 Cormorants [CANCELLED: REPROCESSED AS VPRS 12011/P/]
No full textCormorants [CANCELLED: REPROCESSED AS VPRS 12011/P/
VPRS 14772 Minutes of Meetings
No full textThis series consists of minutes of meetings held by Meeniyan Waterworks Trust (VA 4722).<br/><br/>Minutes related to a wide range of activities for which the water authority was responsible. Minutes of meetings of Waterworks Trusts and Water and Sewerage Boards were created in accordance with section 212 of the Water Act 1890 (no. 1156) and subsequent legislation including the Water Acts of 1905 (No. 2016), 1958 (no. 6413) and 1989 (No. 80). These Acts required that for each meeting, minutes of all proceedings be recorded together with the names of all commissioners present that voted for and against motions. Bound volumes of minutes often included the minutes of annual, ordinary and special meetings, and associated business papers.<br/>
VPRS 13271 Register of Lessees, St Arnaud, Stawell, Bendigo and Castlemaine, Section 12 Amending Land Act 1865
No full textSection 12 of the Amending Land Act 1865 allowed persons to make application for the outright purchase or selection or for a lease of land in declared, surveyed and proclaimed agricultural areas for the purposes of residence and cultivation. The lease could be granted for a term of seven years at a rent of two shillings per acre per annum with the lease to be executed within three months of application.. Rent was to be paid half-yearly with a half-years rent in advance. The lessee was to reside upon the land for at least three years and make improvements to it. If these terms were met, after that three years, there was a right of purchase of the land at he price of one pound per acre. Allotments, as determined by the Board of Land and Works, were to be between 40 and 640 acres with no individual being able to select more than 640 acres per year.<br/><br/>Applications were to be made in the form set down in the Schedules to the Act in person at a land office and be accompanied by a half-years rent in advance. The priority of the order of applications was to be determined by lot. Any refusal of an application was to be notified within thirty days in the Government Gazette with the reasons for refusal or disallowance being given.<br/>Applications were to be made in person at a land office and be accompanied by the purchase price of the whole lot or the purchase price for half and one years rent in advance for the other half. Applications were to be entered into a register, which was to be open to public inspection, by the land officer (see VPRS 13096/P1 and VPRS 1284/P). The priority of the order of applications was to be determined by lot. Any refusal of an application was to be notified within thirty days in the Government Gazette with the reasons for refusal or disallowance being given.<br/><br/>For the recording of the progressive payment of rents, Registers of Lessees were created and maintained by the officials in Melbourne responsible for the records relating to these sections of the Act. Initially, these were based on the location of the offices of the Receivers of Revenue (a departmental officer or another designated Crown officer such as a Clerk of Courts). Lessees would pay rent to the local Receiver of Revenue convenient to their location, returns of payments would be forwarded to the office of the Department of Crown Lands and Survey in Melbourne where they would be recorded in the appropriate register. With the formation of the Occupation Branch and the conduct of business according to the District Offices established, these registers were then allocated to a specific District Office within the Occupation Branch. Records within these registers may be for properties which, after 1874, were located in parishes which had been allocated to different District Offices.<br/><br/>The Register of Lessees recorded the date of the lease or its reference number, the county and parish, the extent of the land being the allotment and section and area and for each year, the number of the report (regarding observance of the conditions of the lease) and the amount of rent to be paid in half-yearly instalments. A remarks column contains notations regarding the subsequent purchase of the land, the transfer to another lessee or to a section of the Land Act 1869 (usually Section 33) or any cancellation, transfer or revocation of the lease. Other Registers also contain notations regarding the location of the Land Office where the land had been originally selected or the Act and Section under which it had been originally leased. These notations are often accompanied by a correspondence number or a reference to an entry in the Government Gazette.<br/><br/>VPRS 13271/P1 was previously registered as Unit 17 of VPRS 1295/P Leases Book
VPRS 11824 Court of Petty Sessions, Adoption Case Files
No full textThe adoption of children was first regulated by legislation with the commencement of the Adoption of Children Act 1928. This Act established adoption as a legal transfer of custody and of parental responsibility, and gave responsibility for making adoption orders to the courts. Prior to this time, adoptions were informal arrangements often made by private infants' homes.<br/><br/>Under the 1928 Act an adoption application could be heard by the Supreme Court, County Court or Court of Petty Sessions. The choice of court depended upon the circumstances of the case and the wishes of the parties:<br/><br/>* The Supreme Court could grant an adoption order in any circumstance<br/><br/>* The County Court could grant an adoption order in any circumstance if the applicant(s) (ie the prospective adoptive parent(s)) chose to use this avenue<br/><br/>* The Court of Petty Sessions closest to where either the applicant(s) or the child resided could grant an adoption order if several parties gave their written consent to the adoption, namely:<br/><br/>- The child's natural parent(s) or guardian(s)<br/>- The person having custody of the child<br/>- Any person liable to contribute to the support of the child<br/>- Where the applicant was married, the applicant's spouse.<br/><br/>If the consent of any of these persons could not be obtained in writing, a higher court had to be used.<br/><br/>This system remained in place until the passing of the Adoption of Children Act 1958 which removed the jurisdiction of the Court of Petty Sessions to grant adoption orders. Since that time the County and Supreme Courts have had the power to grant adoption orders, although in practice most have been granted by the County Court.<br/><br/>This series consists of applications for adoptions heard at the Court of Petty Session
VPRS 1998 Register of Debenture and Stocks (Treasury Bonds)
No full textThis series was originally transferred to archives with minimal documentation which has not been evaluated. All information currently available to PROV has been incorporated into this series registration. This registration will be updated when further research is subsequently undertaken