February 27, 1901
[Editor's Note: This is an excerpt from the United States Statutes at Large, Volume 31, which contains the public laws passed by the Fifty-Sixth Congress during its second session in 1901. The following text is from Chapter 616 (31 Stat. 816).]
CHAP. 616. — An Act To confirm a lease with the Seneca Nation of Indians.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That whereas on the eighteenth day of November, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, Charles Dennis, a Seneca Indian, leased to the Erie Preserving Company, as a site for a manufacturing plant, a certain piece of land near the village of Irving, New York; and whereas on the twenty-ninth day of December, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, the said lease was confirmed, ratified, and approved by the council of the Seneca Nation of Indians, according to its terms and conditions: Now, therefore, the action of the said Charles Dennis and of said Seneca Nation, by its council, is ratified, confirmed, and approved.
Approved, February 27, 1901.