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farmed the land themselves. An amendment in
January 1871 reduced the required initial payment from 20 per cent to 10 per cent, with a further 10 per cent to be paid three years later. In August 1872 another act changed the time for payment of the purchase money to three years after the payment of the second 10 per cent (six years after the purchase), and by paying only half the purchase money at this time the purchaser could obtain an extension of up to four more years.
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The Scrub Lands Act was not a great success, because hand-clearing the mallee was very difficult. However it did create for the first time a different relationship between
Government and farmer: while annual licences to cultivate land were not new, the long-term landlord/tenant relationship, the
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was established to provide some level of tenure to the pastoralists and income to the government from these lands. The parliament gained responsibility for these crown lands in 1857. Several attempts had been made for land legislation after 1857. A
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between farmers and the government for the first time, but with the proviso that the farmer would clear a certain proportion of the land each year.
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opportunity to purchase by deferred payment, and the government control over the use that farmers made of the land, were new to the colony.
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in 1876 has been attributed to the difficulties encountered by the farmers having to clear the mallee under both of these acts.
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