Alienation Notices - Notices of Sale or Transfer of Ratable Land, Granville Municipal Council

Level of current record

Series

Subject date

1922-1949

Brief description

This Series comprises Alienation Notices - Notices of Sale or Transfer of Rateable Land, Granville Municipal Council. Granville Municipal Council amalgamated with Parramatta City Council in 1948. Under Section 144, sub-section 10, of the Local Government Act No. 56, 1906 "when the owner sells any rateable land he shall give the prescribed notice of such sale, and shall, until such notice is so given, continue to be liable for rates and interest thereon accruing due in respect of such land as if he were still the owner thereof." Section 163 of the new 1919 Local Government Act, required a rateable person, trustee executor, administrator, or mortgagee to inform council within one month of the transfer of land ownership. The standard form contains the name of the owner; the owner’s address; location of the property; measurements; purchase price; date of sale; and name and address of purchaser. There are no indexes to the notices. Following the 1948 amalgamation, Granville became a ward of Parramatta and notices for the Granville Ward were recorded in a combined Parramatta Council register (PRS106). To find a particular notice one needs to know the date the notice was received by Council. The transfer of land ownership is at times noted in the valuation books (PRS12) as "A/N number/year". These records are original and they have not been digitised.

Department

Council Archive
Parramatta Heritage Archives

Object number

PRS104

Alienation Notices - Notices of Sale or Transfer of Ratable Land, Granville Municipal Council

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