Chapter 616. To confirm a lease with the Seneca Nation of Indians
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CHAP. 616.— An Act To confirm a lease with the Seneca Nation of Indians. February 27, 1901. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Seneca Nation of Indians. Lease of land to Erie Preserving Company ratified. That whereas on the eighteenth day of November, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, Charles Dennis, a Seneca Indian, leased to the Erie Preserving Company, as a site for a manufacturing plant, a certain piece of land near the village of Irving, New York; and whereas on the twenty-ninth day of December, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, the said lease was confirmed, ratified, and approved by the council of the Seneca Nation of Indians, according to its terms and conditions:
Now. therefore, the action of the said Charles Dennis and of said Seneca Nation, by its council, is ratified, confirmed, and approved. Approved, February 27, 1901.