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| ====Land selections on and near Maroon ==== | ====Land selections on and near Maroon ==== |
| For an overview of the relevant Queensland land acts and government attempts to allocate land to squatters and smaller selectors, see [[wp>Land_selection_in_Queensland]]. TLM-P and his eldest son Thomas de M. M-P (Tom) took advantage of the //Crown Land Alienation Act 1868 (Qld)// which allowed people to 'select' land to farm. Bill Kitson summarises, 'This Act allowed the Government to acquire half of the squatter's run either by resumption or voluntary surrender. This resumed half was then to be surveyed into blocks suitable for selectors looking for smaller agricultural farms. The run holder in return would receive a new lease on his half of the original run as well as other benefits. By this policy the Government was able to achieve their objectives of closer settlement with more people using the same area of land with the added benefit of an increase in rent.'((Bill Kitson, 'From Runs to Closer Settlement', [[http://www.qhatlas.com.au/content/runs-closer-settlement|//Queensland Historical Atlas//]])) The Act limited 'selections' of land to 640 acres and specified that the 'selector' had to have lived permanently on the land and farmed it, before its ownership was transferred.\\ | For an overview of the relevant Queensland land acts and government attempts to allocate land to squatters and smaller selectors, see [[wp>Land_selection_in_Queensland]]. TLM-P and his eldest son Thomas de M. M-P (Tom) took advantage of the //Crown Land Alienation Act// 1868 (Qld) which allowed people to 'select' land to farm. Bill Kitson summarises, 'This Act allowed the Government to acquire half of the squatter's run either by resumption or voluntary surrender. This resumed half was then to be surveyed into blocks suitable for selectors looking for smaller agricultural farms. The run holder in return would receive a new lease on his half of the original run as well as other benefits. By this policy the Government was able to achieve their objectives of closer settlement with more people using the same area of land with the added benefit of an increase in rent.'((Bill Kitson, 'From Runs to Closer Settlement', [[http://www.qhatlas.com.au/content/runs-closer-settlement|//Queensland Historical Atlas//]])) The Act limited 'selections' of land to 640 acres and specified that the 'selector' had to have lived permanently on the land and farmed it, before its ownership was transferred.\\ |
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| Wives and dependent children were ineligible to select land, in what proved to be a somewhat fruitless exercise to prevent what became known as 'dummying', i.e. paying trusted family members or employees to select then to transfer the land when ownership was confirmed. Queensland historian Ross Fitzgerald concluded that the squatters regarded selectors as intruders and manipulated land regulations to keep the newcomers out:'many [squatters] resorted to "dummying" their runs (i.e., lodging land claims using the name of a family member or employee)... Most of the distinguished squatting families of the [Darling] Downs were involved'.((Ross Fitzgerald, //From the Dreaming to 1915. A History of Queensland//, St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1982, p.189.)) TLM-P and Tom were no exception. \\ | Wives and dependent children were ineligible to select land, in what proved to be a somewhat fruitless exercise to prevent what became known as 'dummying', i.e. paying trusted family members or employees to select then to transfer the land when ownership was confirmed. Queensland historian Ross Fitzgerald concluded that the squatters regarded selectors as intruders and manipulated land regulations to keep the newcomers out:'many [squatters] resorted to "dummying" their runs (i.e., lodging land claims using the name of a family member or employee)... Most of the distinguished squatting families of the [Darling] Downs were involved'.((Ross Fitzgerald, //From the Dreaming to 1915. A History of Queensland//, St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1982, p.189.)) TLM-P and Tom were no exception. \\ |