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Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983
Crown Lands Alienation Act 1861
Crown Lands Occupation Act 1861
Aboriginal Lands Trust
New South Wales Department of Lands
Valuer-General's Department
'Cooks River Cruelty' from The Police Report, Bell's Life in Sydney, 3 April 1852
Detail of map showing land holdings of Daniel Judd, O Riley and Ann Prosser on the Macdonald River 1831
Pitt Town 1826
Progress of the soldier settlement scheme at Frenchs Forest in the Lone Hand, August 1918
Tracing showing the land which George Peat wishes to have measured with the 20 acres already marked out at Upper Portland Head March 1836

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Land

Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983

Legislation which provided land rights for Aboriginal persons and provides representative Land Councils which may acquire and manage lands and other assets.

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Crown Lands Alienation Act 1861

Legislation to allow the sale of Crown land.

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Crown Lands Occupation Act 1861

Legislation to allow the leasing of Crown land.

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Aboriginal Lands Trust

Nine members trust representing Aboriginal people in each area of the state, which assumed control of all Aboriginal reserves including housing and mineral rights.

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New South Wales Department of Lands

Colonial and later state department charged with the alienation and occupation of Crown land in New South Wales.

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Valuer-General's Department

Department established in 1916 to evaluates land in all parts of New South Wales for levying rates, taxes and duties on the value of land.

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'Cooks River Cruelty' from The Police Report, Bell's Life in Sydney, 3 April 1852

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Contributed By
National Library of Australia
[nla.news-article59774396 via Trove]
(Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer, 3 April 1852, p3)

Detail of map showing land holdings of Daniel Judd, O Riley and Ann Prosser on the Macdonald River 1831

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Detail of 'Map showing First Branch or Macdonald River, with land holdings 1831'

From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[D Ca 83/20 (detail)]
(William Dixson manuscript collection)

Pitt Town 1826

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From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[M2 811.1114/1826/1]

Progress of the soldier settlement scheme at Frenchs Forest in the Lone Hand, August 1918

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Contributed By
National Library of Australia
[Lone Hand. Auguse 1918, p385 via Trove]

Tracing showing the land which George Peat wishes to have measured with the 20 acres already marked out at Upper Portland Head March ...

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By
Henry E White
Contributed By
State Archives & Records New South Wales
[NRS-13886-1-[X753]-Volume 3 part 1-71. Surveyor General Sketch book 3 folio 5]

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