N.Y. Indian Law § 95: Allotment of lands

§ 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 tribal lands shall be appropriated by any

Indian to his own use, without such consent and allotment. Such chiefs,

in council, may appoint a clerk, who shall enter in a book kept for that

purpose, every allotment of tribal lands, set apart for any Indian or

Indian family, and of the part thereof from which such Indian or family

may sell timber and trees, and of the part he is permitted to clear for

the purposes of cultivation.