NY Indian L § 54 (2021)
2021 New York Laws IND - Indian Article 4 - The Seneca Indians 54 - Prosecution of Actions and Disposition of Recovery.

§  54. Prosecution of actions and disposition of recovery.  The Seneca   nation may prosecute by the name of  "The  Seneca  Nation  of  Indians,"   actions  and  proceedings  to  protect their rights and interests to the   Allegany, Cattaraugus and "oil spring reservations," and may maintain an   action to recover the  possession  of  any  part  of  such  reservations   unlawfully  withheld  from them, and an action for injury to the soil of   such reservations, or for cutting down or removing or converting  timber   or wood growing or being thereon, or an action of replevin for timber or   wood removed therefrom, and for the recovery of damage for injury to the   common property or rights of such Indians, or for the recovery of money,   property  or  effects, due or to become due, or belonging, or in any way   appertaining to such Indians in common, or to the Seneca nation; and  in   every  such  suit,  action  or  proceeding  in relation to lands or real   estate, situated within the said reservations,  the  Seneca  nation  may   allege  a  seisin  in fee; and every recovery in such action shall be as   and for, and in reference to  a  fee;  but  neither  such  recovery  nor   anything herein contained shall enlarge or in any way affect the rights,   title  or  interest  of  the Seneca nation, or of such Indians in and to   such reservations, as between them and the grantees or assignees of  the   pre-emption  right of such reservations under the grants of the state of   Massachusetts. And no such action shall be defeated  or  barred  on  the   ground  that  any  land  in relation to which such action is brought, or   from which any timber or wood, logs or  other  property  may  have  been   removed  or taken, and which may be the subject of any such suit, was in   the possession of any individual Indian, but the occupancy of  any  part   of  the  said  reservations by any individual Indian, shall be deemed to   have been and to be the possession of the Seneca nation; nor  shall  any   license,  consent,  lease,  agreement  or any interest whatever, made or   given by any individual Indian or Indians, be received  in  evidence  in   any  such  action  in bar, defense or mitigation of damages, and when it   shall be necessary to bring any such action  before  a  justice  of  the   peace,  the  same may be brought and maintained before any such justice,   residing in the county where the defendant may  be  found,  whether  the   cause  of action arose in such county or not. Actions or proceedings may   be prosecuted by the Tonawanda nation by  the  name  of  "The  Tonawanda   Nation  of Indians." If a bond or undertaking shall be necessary for the   prosecution or defense of an  action  or  proceeding,  the  attorney  of   either of such nations may execute a bond or undertaking in the name and   in  behalf  of  the nation, which nation shall be liable thereon. If any   costs shall be recovered against either of such nations  in  any  action   prosecuted  or  defended  by the attorney thereof, no execution shall be   issued therefor, but such costs shall be paid by the  treasurer  of  the   state, out of any annuity or interest money payable by the state to such   nation,  upon producing to the comptroller a certificate of the attorney   of such recovery, and a certified copy of  the  judgment  awarding  such   costs.  All sums recovered in any action brought by the attorney thereof   for the benefit of either of such nations, after  deducting  such  costs   and  expense  as shall be certified to by the judge before whom the case   was tried, shall be paid to the treasurer of the nation.