§ 95. Allotment of lands. The chiefs or head men of the Tuscarora nation of Indians in the county of Niagara, in council, shall allot and set apart for any Indian or Indian family, making application and not possessing land, so much of the tribal lands as they shall deem reasonable and just; and no […]
§ 96. Consent of chiefs to sales of timber. Any Indian having tribal lands allotted to him by the chiefs, with the consent of such chiefs entered in the clerk’s book, may sell for his own benefit any timber or trees on that portion of such lands which he shall actually and in good faith […]
§ 97. Indian trespassers. Any Indian who shall cut or destroy timber or trees on any of the timbered lands of such nation, or without the consent of such chiefs, shall be liable to a penalty of twice the value of the timber so cut down or destroyed, recoverable by such chiefs, in the name […]
§ 98. Illegal sales of timber and trees. Every sale or disposition without the consent of such chiefs, by any individual Indian or Indians, of any tree or timber on any of the tribal lands, or of any manufacture therefrom, shall be void. The chiefs may sell for the benefit of the nation any timber […]
