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No. 108.
IN ASSEMBLY, FEB. 20, 149.
COMMUNICATION
From the Governor, transmitting certain proceedings of
the Seneca Nation of Indians.
EXECUTIVE CHAMBER,.
Albany, February 20th, 1849.
TO THE LEGISLATURE.
Application has been made by a deputation of Seneca Indians, for
the recognition of a new form of government which they claim to
have established in a general convention of the Seneca nation of In-
dians, abolishing the ancient form of government by chiefs, which
has heretofore existed in the several nations of the Iroquois confederacy.
This convention was held on the Cattaraugus Reservation, and on
the 4th of December last, adopted a declaration and a constitutional
charter, and passed resolutions directing that a copy of the declara-
tion and charter then adopted, should be transmitted to the Governor
of this State with the request that the same be put on file in the
proper offices.
I have placed the manuscript copy which I received from the clerk
of the nation under this new government, on file with the Commis-
sioners of the Land Office, in whom has been vested by the act of
1841, the charge of most of the relations of this State with the In-
dian tribes.
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