 Consequently there were over 50 principal and amending acts covering all land legislation up to 1910.In South Australia Premier Henry Strangways passed the Strangways Land Act in January 1869 despite conflict with pastoralists, which provided for the creation of agricultural areas and credit purchases of up to 640 acres (259 ha), with a down payment of 25 per cent and four years to pay.By 1859 only 343,916 acres of the land of the colony of Victoria had been alienated.