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CROWN LANDS

occasion to a fee of £10, in order that a sum might be raised sufficient to defray the expences [expenses] incurred in Carrying out the Act - This act was renewed & amended by another {2 Victoria No 19 [}] which in addition to the Charge for license [licence] imposed an assessment on live stock, for the purpose of providing a further protection to the Settlers, by the establishment of a Border Police.

While the domains of the Crown were so ample, - while there was so much to give, and Comparatively so few to receive, it may be readily supposed, that the area of each Station was neither nicely defined nor Sparingly dealt out.  But the busy throng who poured into the interior, and the rapidly increasing numbers of the live stock, Soon occupied all the available country within moderate distances of town & Sea ports; & the succeeding  settlers procured all the accommodation only by overstepping the outer Settlements of the day and Settling upon  Stations more remote.
The Stations of the Settlers of New South Wales, now extend from Harries Bay & Port  Curtis, in 24º South latitude to the River Murray & those of the Colony of Victoria from the River Murray to the River Glenelg, the limits of both colonies measuring in a straight line twelve hundred miles.

 

 

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