The Iroquois; or, the bright side of Indian characterJohnson, Anna C. (Anna Cummings)
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The Iroquois; or, the bright side of Indian character
Johnson, Anna C. (Anna Cummings)
Iroquois Indians -- Social life and customs
Sec. 6. The power of making treaties shall be vested in the Council;
but no treaty shall be binding upon the nation until the same shall be
submitted to the people, and be approved by three fourths of all the
legal voters, and also by three fourths of all the mothers in the
nation.
Sec. 7. There shall be a clerk and treasurer, and superintendent of
schools, and overseers of the poor, and assessors, and overseers of
highways, whose duties shall be regulated by law.
Sec. 8. Every officer who shall be authorized to receive public money,
shall be required to give such security as the President and the
attorney for the Seneca nation shall approve.
Sec. 9. There shall be a marshal, and two deputies, on each Reservation
(Cattaraugus and Allegany), who shall execute all processes issued by
the courts, and do such other duties as shall be prescribed by law.
Sec. 10. All officers named in this Constitution, or Charter, shall be
chosen at the same time, in the same manner, and for the same time, as
members of the Council, and vacancies occurring in any office shall be
filled in the manner to be prescribed by law; and every male Indian of
the age of twenty-one years and upwards, either residing on one of the
Reservations (the Cattaraugus, Allegany, or Oil Spring), or owning,
possessing, and occupying any lands upon either of said Reservations,
and which lands may have been taxed for highways, or other purposes,
shall be entitled to vote at all elections.
Sec. 11. Any legal voter shall be eligible to any office named in this
Constitution or Charter; and all officers elect shall be inducted into
office, and if necessary shall be impeached by the use of such forms
and regulations as shall be prescribed by law.
Sec. 12. The compensation of members of the Council shall be one dollar
per day while in session; but no member shall receive more than
twenty-six dollars in any one year. The compensation of all the
officers shall be prescribed by law.
Sec. 13. The Council shall meet annually on the first Tuesday in June,
and extra sessions may be convened by the President at any time he
shall think proper.
Sec. 14. The Council shall have power to make any laws not inconsistent
with the Constitution of the United States, or of the State of New
York.
Sec. 15. All offences which shall be punishable by the laws of the
United States, or of the State of New York, shall be tried and punished
in the Peace-Makers’ Court, or before the Council, as shall be
prescribed by law.
Sec. 16. The right of any member of the ancient confederacy of the
Iroquois to the occupancy of our lands, and other privileges, shall be
respected as heretofore; and the Council shall pass laws for the
admission of any Indian of other tribes or nations to citizenship and
adoption into the Seneca nation of Indians by his or her application,
for his, or herself, or family.
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