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Ambitious French colonization scheme fizzles
On this day in 1841, a short-lived bill authorizing the formation of a
French-Texan immigration company was introduced in the Texas Congress. The
Franco-Texian Bill, proposed by two Frenchmen, Jean Pierre Hippolyte
Basterrèche and Pierre François de Lassaulx, called for the introduction
of 8,000 immigrant families to occupy three million acres of the Republic
of Texas. The managing company was to establish twenty forts in twenty
years. It was also to develop mines within its territory and pay the
republic 15 percent of the gross returns. The bill passed the House, but
was never presented to the Senate because the sponsors saw that it could
not pass over the expected veto by acting president David G. Burnet.
- Links to Related Handbook of Texas Online Articles
- FRANCO-TEXIAN BILL
- FRENCH
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