Chapter 139. to authorize the survey of the Cattaraugus Indian reservation in the State of New York
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CHAP. 139.— An Act to authorize the survey of the Cattaraugus Indian reservation in the State of New York.May 25, 1878. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Cattaraugus Indian reservation; resurvey of. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to cause the Cattaraugus Indian reservation in the State of New’ York to be resurveyed in accordance with the original survey thereof, and the exterior boundaries thereof to be marked by stone or iron monuments; the expense thereof not to exceed the sum of two thousand dollars, and to be paid by the Seneca Nation of Indians, who are authorized to select a surveyor, to be approved by the Secretary of the Interior, and the said Secretary may pay the said sam of two thousand dollars, to the person who makes the survey out of any moneys under his control belonging to said nation of Indians.
Sec. 2. That the surveyor shall make plats in triplicate of the saidPlats, field-notes. reservation, showing the lines of its exterior boundaries, streams of water, and public highways on or running through the reservation j and that the plats and field notes of the survey shall be submitted to the Commissioner of the General Land Office for bis exandnation and approval, and whose duty it shall be to furnish one copy thereof to the clerk of the county of Erie, in the State of New York, one copy to the Seneca Nation of Indians, and the third to be retained in the General Land Office.
Approved, May 25, 1878.