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Francis Keble Crowley. COLONIAL LAND POLICY In 1842 the British parliament passed an Act that regulated the sale of Crown land in all the Australian colonies on two general principles : that in future no Crown land would be sold at less ...
Francis Keble Crowley. COLONIAL LAND POLICY In 1842 the British parliament passed an Act that regulated the sale of Crown land in all the Australian colonies on two general principles : that in future no Crown land would be sold at less ...
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... land revenue was the drying - up of assisted immigration , which was revived on a small scale in 1844 , but did not ... land was under 20s . an acre , and not to the last five years , when land was at the present price . The gross ...
... land revenue was the drying - up of assisted immigration , which was revived on a small scale in 1844 , but did not ... land was under 20s . an acre , and not to the last five years , when land was at the present price . The gross ...
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... land . Those conditions were also favourable to the bona fide squatter , because they would prevent jobbing in lands ... land . But if free selection were limited to one selection of 320 acres , there could not be much done in the ...
... land . Those conditions were also favourable to the bona fide squatter , because they would prevent jobbing in lands ... land . But if free selection were limited to one selection of 320 acres , there could not be much done in the ...
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