N.Y. Indian Law § 43: Qualifications of voters and eligibility to office

§ 43. Qualifications of voters and eligibility to office. Every male

Seneca Indian of full age residing on the Allegany, Cattaraugus or

Tonawanda reservations, whose name shall appear on the last preceding

census taken for the purpose of distributing the annuities due to the

said Indians, shall be a qualified voter at all elections or meetings of

the electors of his nation; and shall be eligible to any office filled

thereat, except that the marshals, peacemakers and councilors of the

Seneca nation shall be residents of the reservation for which they were

chosen, and the peacemakers of the Tonawanda nation shall be chosen from

among the chiefs thereof. If any person offering to vote at any such

election shall be challenged as unqualified, the presiding officer shall

determine by an inspection of such last preceding census, upon his right

to vote; and if he is challenged on the ground of not being twenty-one

years of age, such officer shall ascertain the fact by the oath of the

person offering his vote, or of any other Indian, which oath he is

authorized to administer.