N.Y. IND Law § 95
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Allotment of lands
Official statutory text
§ 95. Allotment of lands. The chiefs or head men of the Tuscarora\nnation of Indians in the county of Niagara, in council, shall allot and\nset apart for any Indian or Indian family, making application and not\npossessing land, so much of the tribal lands as they shall deem\nreasonable and just; and no tribal lands shall be appropriated by any\nIndian to his own use, without such consent and allotment. Such chiefs,\nin council, may appoint a clerk, who shall enter in a book kept for that\npurpose, every allotment of tribal lands, set apart for any Indian or\nIndian family, and of the part thereof from which such Indian or family\nmay sell timber and trees, and of the part he is permitted to clear for\nthe purposes of cultivation.\n
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