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The passage of the law was largely due to the efforts of Samuel R. Thurston, the Oregon territorial delegate to Congress. [5] The act, which became law on 27 September 1850, granted 320 acres (1.3 km 2) of designated areas free of charge to every unmarried white male citizen eighteen or older and 640 acres (2.6 km 2) to every married couple arriving in the Oregon Territory before 1 December ...
The Oregon Donation Land Claim Act was passed in 1850 and allowed white settlers to claim 320 acres or 640 to married couples between 1850 and 1855 when the act was repealed. Before it was repealed in 1855, the land was sold for $1.25 per acre. [ 15 ]
One law allowed people to claim 640 acres (2.6 km 2) if they improved the land, which would be solidified later by Congress' adoption of the Donation Land Claim Act. [12] Another law allowed the government to organize a militia and call them out by order of the Executive or Legislature. [ 3 ]
The Organic Laws authorised a maximum of 640 acres (2.6 km 2) to be claimed by male pioneers. [11] This size was from legislation created by American Senator Linn in 1842, allowing "any white male" to take as much land in the Oregon Country. [13] Rejected in 1843, it was the basis for the later Donation Land Claim Act. [14]
From December 2, 1850 to February 8, 1851, the second session of the legislature gathered in Oregon City. [7] W. W. Buck served as the President of the Council, Ralph Wilcox as the Speaker of the House. [7] The 1850-51 session was not a harmonious one, being divided over the controversial matter of location of the Oregon state capital. [8]
The Donation Land Claim Act of 1850 was authorized by the US Congress before any land deals had been made with the Indigenous people, which insured only the best land to unmarried white males over 18 years of age willing to move to Oregon, undesirable land would be utilized for the reservation system for Indigenous people after their forced ...
The first white settler at Canemah was Absalom F. Hedges (1817–1890). He arrived in Oregon City in 1844, and found all the good lots already taken. He then went south to Canemah, and staked out a Donation Land Claim close to the canoe landing place.
The first marker, a red cedar stake, was placed on the site on June 4, 1851, by John B. Preston, the first Surveyor General of the Oregon Territory. [1] Preston was appointed by President Millard Fillmore to create a system for surveying land in the territory; [2] he lost his position in 1853, and "drifted into obscurity."