New York Consolidated Laws, Indian Law - IND § 102. Allotment of lands

The chiefs or headmen of the Saint Regis nation of Indians in the county of Franklin, in council, shall allot and set apart for any Indian or Indian family making application and not possessing land, so much of the tribal lands as they shall deem reasonable and just, and no tribal lands shall be appropriated by any Indian to his own use, without such consent and allotment. The clerk shall enter in a book, kept for that purpose, every allotment of tribal lands, set apart for any Indian or Indian family, and the part thereof from which such Indian or family may sell timber or trees or the part he is permitted to clear for the purposes of cultivation.