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Andrew Jackson

President Andrew Jackson.

The Hagen Bill was a bill promoted by Mexican President Andrew Jackson in 1825 to encourage emigration by the Anglo population of Jefferson to the southern states of Durango and Chiapas.

Under the terms of the Hagen Bill, any Jeffersonian who resettled in the southern states would be granted 250 acres of land on the understanding that he would produce crops for three successive years. The Hagen Bill was apparently not effective in encouraging the emigration of Jeffersonians to southern Mexico, since Sobel notes on p. 99 that there was little internal migration in the U.S.M. until the late nineteenth century.

Miguel Huddleston had already emigrated to Durango before the U.S.M. was founded, so he would not have been able to take advantage of the Hagen Bill. However, it is likely that his hacienda in Durango would have attracted other Jeffersonian settlers to the Pimintel area.

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