2023 New York Laws › IND - Indian › Article 5 - The Seneca Indians on the Allegany and Cattaraugus Reservations › 71 - Exclusion of Villages From Reservations; Lease of Lands Therein; Certification of Copies of Leases Granted by the Seneca Nation of Indians and Recordi

§ 71. Exclusion of villages from reservations; lease of lands therein;
  certification  of  copies  of  leases  granted  by  the Seneca nation of
  Indians and recording thereof. Those parts of the  Allegany  reservation
  included   in  the  villages  of  Vandalia,  Carrollton,  Great  Valley,
  Salamanca, West Salamanca  and  Red  House,  as  surveyed,  located  and
  established pursuant to an act of congress approved February nineteenth,
  eighteen  hundred  and  seventy-five, have been constituted parts of the
  several towns within which they are located, and all the general laws of
  the state are extended over and apply to  the  same;  except  that  this
  section  shall  not authorize the taxation of any Indian or the property
  of any Indian, not a  citizen  of  the  United  States.  Lands  in  such
  villages held under lease from the Seneca nation of Indians shall be for
  all  purposes  considered  a freehold estate, and the right of dower and
  tenancy by the courtesy shall attach thereto, and such lands,  upon  the
  intestacy  of  the  holder,  shall  descend  the  same  as a freehold of
  inheritance, except that solely for  the  purpose  of  taxation  by  the
  Salamanca  Indian  lease  authority,  the  estate  of  a lessee shall be
  considered a chattel real. But the rights of the Indians in such  leases
  shall  descend  as provided by the laws of the Seneca nation of Indians.
  When the original lease of any such lands already granted by the  Seneca
  nation  of  Indians, pursuant to an act of Congress, and recorded in the
  books of Seneca national Indian leases kept by the clerk of said nation,
  or his successors  or  assigns  in  office,  shall  have  been  lost  or
  destroyed  without  the  same  having been recorded in the office of the
  clerk of the county of Cattaraugus, the owner  of  such  lease,  or  any
  person interested in the lands therein described, may apply to the clerk
  of said nation for a certified copy of such record of the same, and upon
  the  payment of the fees therefor, it shall be the duty of said clerk to
  furnish such owner with  a  certified  copy  of  said  lease.  Upon  the
  presentation of a copy of any such lease, certified as aforesaid, to the
  clerk  of  Cattaraugus  county,  it  shall  be the duty of said clerk to
  record the same in the books provided in his office for  the  record  of
  such Indian leases, upon the payment of the fees for recording the same.
  Such  copy  of  a  lease  certified  as  aforesaid  shall be presumptive
  evidence of the facts  set  forth  therein  and  shall  be  received  in
  evidence  on  the trial of any action or proceeding in all the courts of
  this state. The record of such a copy of a lease certified as  aforesaid
  in  the  office of the clerk of the county of Cattaraugus shall have the
  same force and effect as the record of the original lease, had  it  been
  recorded.  The  said clerk shall receive for certifying the same the sum
  of one dollar and for making a copy of said lease the sum of twenty-five
  cents per folio, which fees shall belong to the said clerk.