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Donation Land Claim Act
The Donation Land Claim Act of 1850, sometimes known as the Donation Land Act, 〔Ch 76–〕 was a statute enacted in late 1850 by the United States Congress. It was intended to promote homestead settlements in the Oregon Territory in the Pacific Northwest (comprising the present-day states of Oregon, Washington, Idaho and part of Wyoming). The law, a forerunner of the later Homestead Act, brought thousands of white settlers into the new territory, swelling the ranks of settlers traveling along the Oregon Trail. 7,437 land patents were issued under the law, which expired in late 1855.
==History==
The passage of the law was largely due to the efforts of Samuel R. Thurston, the Oregon territorial delegate to Congress. The act, which became law on September 27, 1850, granted of designated areas free of charge to every unmarried white male citizen eighteen or older–and to every married couple–arriving in the Oregon Territory before December 1, 1850. In the case of a married couple, the husband and wife each owned half of the total grant in their own name. The law was one of the first that allowed married women in the United States to hold property under their own name.〔 Half-blood Native Americans were also eligible for the grant.〔. Retrieved December 30, 2012.〕 A provision in the law granted half the amount to those who arrived after the 1850 deadline but before 1854.〔 Claimants were required to live on the land and cultivate it for four years to own it outright.〔
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