September 30, 1890
[Editor's Note: This is an excerpt from the United States Statutes at Large, Volume 26, which contains the public laws passed by the Fifty-First Congress during its first session in 1890. The following text is from Chapter 1132 (26 Stat. 558).]
CHAP. 1132. — An act to authorize the Seneca Nation of New York Indians to lease lands within the Cattaraugus and Allegany Reservations, and to confirm existing leases.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever the leases of land situate within the limits of the villages mentioned in the act of Congress entitled 'An act to authorize the Seneca Nation of New York Indians to lease lands within the Cattaraugus and Allegany Reservations, and to confirm existing leases," approved February nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, except leases to railroads, shall by the terms of said act be renewable, the same shall be renewable for a term not exceeding ninety-nine years, instead of the term of twelve years, as therein provided, subject to all other terms and conditions of said act.
Approved, September 30, 1890.