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In the early 1800s, the empresario system was responsible for

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It is basically the right to settle on land in exchange for recruiting/take new settlers 
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The Mexican government contracted "empresarios" which are land agents to aid the settlement of Texas. Each empresario agreed to settle a specific number of Catholic families on a defined land grant within six years.
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