N.Y. Indian Law § 43
Qualifications of voters and eligibility to office
New York · New York Indian Law · Status: effective · Effective 2014-09-22
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§ 43. Qualifications of voters and eligibility to office. Every male
Seneca Indian of full age residing on the Allegany, Cattaraugus or
Tonawanda reservations, whose name shall appear on the last preceding
census taken for the purpose of distributing the annuities due to the
said Indians, shall be a qualified voter at all elections or meetings of
the electors of his nation; and shall be eligible to any office filled
thereat, except that the marshals, peacemakers and councilors of the
Seneca nation shall be residents of the reservation for which they were
chosen, and the peacemakers of the Tonawanda nation shall be chosen from
among the chiefs thereof. If any person offering to vote at any such
election shall be challenged as unqualified, the presiding officer shall
determine by an inspection of such last preceding census, upon his right
to vote; and if he is challenged on the ground of not being twenty-one
years of age, such officer shall ascertain the fact by the oath of the
person offering his vote, or of any other Indian, which oath he is
authorized to administer.