California Alien Land Law of 1913
The California Alien Land Law of 1913 (also known as the Webb-Haney Act) prohibited "aliens ineligible for citizenship" from owning agricultural land or possessing long-term leases over it, but permitted leases lasting up to three years. It affected the Chinese, Indian, Japanese, and Korean immigrant farmers in California. Implicitly, the law was primarily directed at the Japanese. It passed thirty-five to two in the Senate and seventy-two to three in the Assembly and was co-written by attorney Francis J. Heney and California state attorney general Ulysses S. Webb at the behest of Governor Hiram Johnson. Japan's Consul General Kametaro Iijima and lawyer Juichi Soyeda lobbied against the law. In a letter to the United States Secretary of State, the Japanese government via the Japanese Minis
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California Alien Land Law of 1913
The California Alien Land Law of 1913 (also known as the Webb-Haney Act) prohibited "aliens ineligible for citizenship" from owning agricultural land or possessing long-term leases over it, but permitted leases lasting up to three years. It affected the Chinese, Indian, Japanese, and Korean immigrant farmers in California. Implicitly, the law was primarily directed at the Japanese. It passed thirty-five to two in the Senate and seventy-two to three in the Assembly and was co-written by attorney Francis J. Heney and California state attorney general Ulysses S. Webb at the behest of Governor Hiram Johnson. Japan's Consul General Kametaro Iijima and lawyer Juichi Soyeda lobbied against the law. In a letter to the United States Secretary of State, the Japanese government via the Japanese Minis
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The California Alien Land Law ...... already living in California.
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カリフォルニア州外国人土地法( - しゅうがいこくじんとちほ ...... と述べている。後にアリゾナ州などでも同様な法案が通過された。
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Juichi Soyeda and Tadao Kamiya of Japan arrive in 1913 to lobby against the law
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The California Alien Land Law ...... ernment via the Japanese Minis
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カリフォルニア州外国人土地法( - しゅうがいこくじんとちほ ...... と述べている。後にアリゾナ州などでも同様な法案が通過された。
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California Alien Land Law of 1913
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カリフォルニア州外国人土地法
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