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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 Donation Land Claim Act allowed settlers to claim land in the Oregon Territory, then including the modern states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho and parts of Wyoming. 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in 1850 and allowed white settlers to claim 320 acres or 640 to married couples between 1850 and 1855 when the act was repealed.
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]
The Oregon Donation Land Claim Act of 1850 opened Oregon Territory to European-American settlement; Washington Territory had a similar law. The law sunset 1 December 1855; settlers had to file their land claims by that date, so White leaders had incentive to get treaties signed with Native Americans as speedily as possible to enable development ...
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 act legitimized existing land claims in the Oregon Territory and granted 640 acres (2.6 km²) to each married couple who would settle and cultivate the land for four years. The act is considered a forerunner of the 1862 Homestead Act. In 1850 he wrote an address to Congress urging the prohibition of free African-Americans from the Oregon ...
From 1850 to 1855, the Oregon Donation Land Act entitled white male settlers arriving in present-day Oregon to 320 acres of land apiece, while also legitimizing the land claims made by those who had already arrived and claimed land. The law also applied to "American half-breed Indians" who made claims on the land.