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15-645: Download coordinates as: Finch County is one of the 141 cadastral divisions of New South Wales . It is bounded by the Narran River in the west, the Barwon River to the south and east, and the Queensland border to the north. It includes Lightning Ridge . Finch County was named in honour of surveyor Heneage Finch , the grandson of Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Aylesford . A full list of parishes found within this county; their current LGA and mapping coordinates to

30-448: A 1907 map shows 13 land boards and 103 land districts. The new land districts were different from the previous land districts which had mostly been used in the western areas of the state before counties were proclaimed there. The land boards were named after the location of the head office. The table below shows the land districts used in 1890 and 1907 (some of the locations of the land boards changed and there were new land districts), with

45-518: Is also legally the only part of the state in the South Australian time zone. A number of water supply authorities are named County Council, but only Rous County Council has the same name as its cadastral county. Genealogy records from the 19th and early 20th centuries for New South Wales commonly use the town name followed by the county. The 1911 Britannica lists all towns in New South Wales

60-478: The Crown Lands Acts , while new types of districts called first and second class settled districts, as well as town land and suburban land came into being. The various districts used: The Crown Lands Act of 1884 further divided New South Wales into three land divisions; Western , Central and Eastern ; as well as Land Boards and Land Districts. This 1890 map shows 14 land boards and 95 land districts; while

75-569: The lands administrative divisions of Australia . Unlike the local government areas of New South Wales , which have gone through restructuring periods by the government , the counties have been the same since the 19th century. The first county proclaimed was Cumberland on 4 June 1788. Northumberland was named in 1804. Several other counties were established around Sydney; by the 1820s there were nine counties (see 1828 and 1832 maps). They were: Roxburgh, Northumberland, Durham, Westmoreland, Cumberland, Argyle, Camden, Ayr and Cambridge. They were in

90-663: The approximate area of the present day cadastral units except that some of them were larger and took up land which was in 1834 assigned to other counties. Ayr and Cambridge were not used in the 1834 counties, taking up area which is approximately in what became Macquarie County and Brisbane County . Instructions were given to Governor Brisbane in 1825 to survey New South Wales and divide it into counties of various sizes, hundreds , and parishes between 15 and 25 square miles (40 and 65 km²). The Nineteen Counties were surveyed by Thomas Mitchell in 1834. In Cumberland County only, 13 hundreds were proclaimed, then repealed in 1888. As

105-838: The approximate centre of each location is as follows: Cadastral divisions of New South Wales For lands administration purposes, New South Wales is divided into 141 counties , which are further divided into parishes. The counties were first set down in the Colony of New South Wales , which later became the Australian state of New South Wales . The counties were further subdivided into 7,419 parishes . There are also three land divisions, approximately one hundred land districts and several other district types. Land boards were used at various periods. Thirteen hundreds were briefly proclaimed in Cumberland County . These divisions are part of

120-582: The balance to be paid within three years, an interest-free loan of three-quarters of the price. Alternatively at the end of the three years, the balance could be treated as an indefinite loan, as long as 5% interest was paid each year. The Crown Lands Acts consisted of two separate acts: The Crown Lands Alienation Act of 1861 No 26a and the Crown Lands Occupation Act of 1861 No 27a These acts were amended in 1875 and 1880. The Robertson acts were replaced completely by new legislation with effect from

135-469: The beginning of 1885. Selectors were required to live on their land for three years and to make improvements worth £1 per acre. Speculation was to be prevented by requiring actual residence on the land. In return pastoralists were protected by granting them, at the conclusion of their present leases, annual leases in the settled districts and five yearly leases elsewhere, with a maximum area or carrying capacity, and an increase in rent by appraisement of

150-630: The counties are based on area, rather than population, there are huge differences in the populations of the coastal counties with those for the remote west. The whole of Sydney with several million people is located within Cumberland County, while there are many counties for areas in the Far West which have a very low population. The counties have little official function and are only now used for land titles and geographic surveying, and as an area of coverage within some industrial awards. Yancowinna County

165-422: The land boards and land divisions: Download coordinates as: Robertson Land Acts Under the reforms unsurveyed land in an area which had been declared an agricultural reserve in designated unsettled areas could be selected and bought freehold in 40-to-320-acre (16–129 ha) lots of crown land, wherever situated at £ 1 per acre (£2 9s 5d/ha), on a deposit of five shillings per acre (12s 4d/ha),

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180-483: The land was on the market. The work of Alexander Grant McLean , Surveyor General of New South Wales facilitated the introduction of these Land Acts. Subsequently, there were struggles between squatters and selectors, and the laws were circumvented by corruption and the acquisition of land by various schemes, such as the commissioning of selections to be passed eventually to squatters and the selection of key land such as land with access to water by squatters to maintain

195-432: The runs. The pastoralist retained the pre-emptive right to buy one twenty-fifth of his lease in addition to improved areas, and also possessed the pre-lease to three times the area of the freehold. In addition they were to continue to possess the right to request the survey and auctioning of large parcels of their lease. This meant that they could bid at short notice for such land while other potential bidders were unaware that

210-488: The same way, such as Albury, Goulburn county, Broken Hill, Yancowinna county and Wagga-Wagga, Wynyard county. Parts of the land which were outside the Nineteen Counties were divided into squatting districts in the early 19th century [1] . In 1846 New South Wales was divided into settled districts, intermediate districts and unsettled districts. In 1861 the system of settled and unsettled districts were abolished with

225-592: The viability of their pastoral leases. The Land Acts accelerated the alienation of Crown land that had been acquired under the principle of terra nullius , and hence accelerated the dispossession of Indigenous Australians . The Land Acts paralleled the demands for similar legislation amending the United States Preemption Act of 1841 , culminating in the Homestead Act of 1862, and was succeeded by similar legislation in other Australian colonies in

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