the tribal lands, or of any manufacture therefrom, shall be void. The chiefs may sell for the benefit of the nation any timber, trees or stone on the wild lands of such nation, the proceeds of such sale to be paid to the chief whom the council may appoint as treasurer. Such chiefs may bring an action in the name of the nation against the person to whom such trees, timber or stone are sold to recover the purchase price thereof, or against any per. son who shall have received any tree, timber or stone or the manufacture therefrom unlawfully sold, to recover the value thereof for the benefit of the nation. Any person who shall sell, take or carry from the lands of such nation, any trees, lumber, stone, or article of manufacture therefrom, without the consent of such chiefs, in any other case than is provided for in this chapter, shall be liable to a penalty of twice the value of such trees, timber, stone or manufactured articles, recoverable by such chiefs in the name of the nation. The chiefs of such tribe, upon giving satisfactory security for costs, may sue in the name of the nation for the recovery of any penalty incurred under this section, and after paying the legal charges of such suit, shall pay over any penalty recovered by them to the treasurer of the tribe. (Added by chap. 229 of 1893, § 3.)

§ 106. Jurisdiction of council to determine disputes.-The chiefs of such tribe in council assembled may hear and determine charges of encroachments or trespass on lands cultivated or occupied by any Indian, entered or described in the clerk's book of records; and controversies involving the title to property between individual Indians residing on such reservation. A chief shall not act in any such case where he is related by blood to either of the parties within the fourth degree by the common law, or has any interest in the action or proceeding. (Added by chap. 229 of 1893, § 3.)

§ 107. General powers of council.-The council of the Saint Regis nation may pass by-laws and ordinances not inconsistent with law, for the protection and improvement of the common. land of the nation, for the regulation of fences and for the prevention of trespasses by cattle and other domestic animals, and may provide a penalty of not exceeding five dollars for the violation or disobedience of any such by-law or ordinance recoverable for the benefit of such nation, by any chief or officer thereof in the name of the nation in any justice's court of the county of Franklin. (Added by chap. 229 of 1893, § 3.)

§ 108. Qualifications of voters. All male Indians of the Saint Regis tribe, who are twenty-one years of age or upwards, who reside on the American side of the line dividing the United States from Canada, and who are entitled to draw the yearly annuity money, shall be entitled to vote for the chiefs or headmen, the subchiefs and clerk of the tribe at the elections of such tribe provided for by this article. (Added by chap. 642 of 1898, 8 2.)

§ 109. Officers of tribes.-The chiefs or headmen, the subchiefs and clerk of the Saint Regis tribe in office when this section takes effect shall continue in office until twelve o'clock noon on the first day of July, eighteen hundred and ninetyeight. Hereafter the chiefs or headmen, the subchiefs and clerk shall be elected in the manner provided for by this article, and shall have all the powers conferred by this chapter upon such officers. A subchief shall have all the power and shall perform all the duties of the chief to whom he is elected as a subchief, in case of such chief's inability to act for any reason whatsoever. (Added by chap. 642 of 1898, § 2.)

§ 109a. Election of officers.-There shall be an election of the Saint Regis tribe of Indians on the first Monday after the first Tuesday in June, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and annually on the first Monday after the first Tuesday in June thereafter. At the election held on the first Monday after the first Tuesday in June, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, there shall be elected by a plurality of votes of the qualified voters of the tribe a chief and a subchief thereto to hold office for a term of three years; a chief and subchief thereto, to hold office for a term of two years; a chief and subchief thereto, to hold office for a term of one year, and a clerk to hold office for a term of three years, and annually thereafter there shall be elected a chief and a subchief thereto to hold office for a term of three years. A successor to such clerk shall be elected at the annual election occurring next prior to the expiration of his term of office. The terms of office of all officers of the Saint Regis tribe shall commence at twelve o'clock noon on the first day of July succeeding the election at which they are elected. (Added by chap. 642 of 1898, 2.)

8109b. Conduct of elections.-The clerk of the tribe shall provide a sufficient number of ballot-boxes so that there shall be a separate ballot-box for each officer to be elected, the

expense for which shall be paid from the moneys due the tribe from the state. The attorney of the Saint Regis tribe of Indians and the clerk of the tribe shall preside at the election, receive the ballots presented by the voters and deposit them in the respective ballot-boxes. Such clerk and attorney shall each be entitled to receive for such services the sum of four dollars per day for each day during which they are actually employed with such duties, to be paid out of the moneys due such tribe from the state. The polls of such election shall be open between the hours of nine o'clock in the morning and five o'clock in the afternoon. A voter voting at such election must, if challenged, before depositing his ballot, solemnly swear that he is at least twentyone years of age, that he resides on the American side of the line dividing the United States from Canada and that he is entitled to draw a share of the yearly annuity moneys, which oath shall be administered by the attorney of the tribe. (Added by chap. 642 of 1898, § 2.)

§ 109c. Canvass of votes.-Upon the closing of the poll at such election, such attorney and clerk shall count the votes cast thereat and publicly declare the result of such election, specifying the number of votes cast for each person at such election, and the names of the persons elected. The clerk shall enter on the tribal book the names of each person voted for at such election, the number of votes cast for each such person, the names of the persons elected to office and the terms for which they are to serve. (Added by chap. 642 of 1898, § 2.)

109d. Vacancies. If a vacancy shall occur for any reason in the office of chief or headman, subchief or clerk of such tribe. the chiefs or headmen shall appoint a person to fill such vacancy, who shall hold office until the next succeeding annual election at which a person shall be elected to such office to hold office until the expiration of the term for which his predecessor was elected. (Added by chap. 642 of 1898, § 2.)

§ 110. Election of trustees.-The adult male members belonging to the Shinnecock tribe of Indians in Suffolk county, who for the preceding six months shall have resided on the res ervation of said tribe, may meet on the first Tuesday in April in each year, at the place of holding town meetings in the town of Southampton, and by plurality of votes elect three persons, belonging to such tribes as trustees. The town clerk of said town shall attend and preside at such meetings and shall enter in a book kept by him for that purpose the names of the trustees chosen. He shall also enter in such book the proceedings of such trustees and of the justices of such town in reference to the allotment or leasing of Indian lands. (As amended by chap. 168 of 1896, § 1.)

§ 111. Powers of trustees.-Such trustees may allot the tribal lands to the individuals or families thereof; may direct on what part of such lands firewood and timber may be cut by such tribe; and, with the consent of three justices of the peace residing in or near the town of Southampton, may lease so much of such lands as they may deem for the benefit of the tribe, for a term not longer than three years.

§ 112. Unlawful use of lands.-Any person, not of such tribe, who shall hire, use or occupy any lands of such tribe, which have been allotted by the trustees thereof, or any per son who shall occupy or use any of such lands without the consent of a majority of such trustees, and of at least two of such justices, obtained and entered in the book of the town clerk kept for such purpose, shall be liable to a penalty of twenty-five dollars for every acre hired, used or occupied. Any person belonging to such tribe, who shall cut any wood or timber on such lands, without the order and consent of such trustees and justices entered in such book, shall be liable to a penalty of ten dollars for each offense. One-half of any such penalty shall

be for the use of the overseers of the poor of the town of Southampton, and the other half shall go to any person who shall sue for the recovery thereof.

§ 113. Laws repealed. Of the laws enumerated in the schedule hereto annexed, that portion specified in the last column is repealed. Such repeal shall now revive a law repealed by any law hereby repealed, but shall include all laws amendatory of the laws hereby repealed.

§ 114. When to take effect. This chapter shall take effect on May 1st, 1893.