Crown Land Sales Register, Smithfield, February 1877

Crown Land Sales Register, Smithfield, February 1877

Two-page extract of the Land Sales Register, a large hard-backed register book showing sales of Crown Lands in the Colony of Queensland. This particular register is Volume 4 which contained the 1877 sales for towns beginning with the letters C-H (Cairns to Helidon). The Smithfield land sales were held in Cairns, so were recorded in the Cairns register.

Volume 4, folio 128 details land purchased in Smithfield on 15 February 1877, when 28 allotments in the Smithfield town Sections 1 and 2 were auctioned. The register shows: the value of improvements on the allotments at the time of auction; the Lot number; the class of land; the allotment number; the Section number; the area of the lot; the upset price per acre (£50); the amount per lot; the total amount for the land; the deposit paid; the name of the bidder; and the signature of the purchaser and their residence.

Brinsley Guise Sheridan [Acting Land Commissioner, Cairns]

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15 February 1877

Crown Lands Office, Cairns.

The first land sales in the Cairns region were held at the Cairns Police Office at 11.00 am on 15 February 1877. Clerk of Petty Sessions at Cairns, James Powers, was the auctioneer, Acting Land Commissioner for the Land Agent's District of Cooktown, Howard St. George, was the banker, and the Clerk of Petty Sessions at Cooktown, James Pryde, was the clerk.

125 town allotments in Cairns and 28 town allotments at Smithfield were offered for sale at an upset price of £50 an acre (i.e. a starting price of £11/5/-. per lot). The 28 Smithfield allotments were auctioned for a combined total of £730/15/-. Three purchasers later defaulted on their payments and forfeited their allotments.

'Crown Land Sales', The Queenslander, Saturday 23 December 1876: 41.

Item originally controlled by the colonial Queensland Government's Lands Department. Control passed to the Queenslanded Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Energy (II).

Two page extract of large hard-back register book

Folio Book

165138S1454201E
Old Smithfield township, Barron QLD 4871
Colonial Queensland
1870s

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