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Mexican Congress passes colonization law
On this day in 1824, the Mexican Congress passed a national colonization
law. This law, and the state law of Coahuila and Texas passed the
following year, became the basis of all colonization contracts affecting
Texas, with the exception of that of Stephen F. Austin. Among the
members of the congressional committee that drafted the legislation was
Erasmo Seguín, the father of Juan N. Seguín. In effect, the national law
surrendered to the states authority to set up regulations to dispose of
unappropriated lands within their limits for colonization, subject to
certain limitations, but reserved the right to stop immigration from
particular nations in the interest of national security. Six years later
the federal government invoked this reservation in forbidding the
settlement in Texas of emigrants from the United States; the resulting
Law of April 6, 1830, helped touch off the Texas Revolution.
- Links to Related Handbook of Texas Online Articles
- MEXICAN COLONIZATION LAWS
- MEXICAN TEXAS
- COAHUILA AND TEXAS
- AUSTIN, STEPHEN FULLER
- SEGUIN, JUAN JOSE MARIA ERASMO
- LAW OF APRIL 6, 1830
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