Legal, land and legislative papers, 1874-1878

Includes:

- letter [copy?] from Samuel D. Haines to Joseph Elkinton giving his opinion on the rights of Seneca people to their lands, ca. 1875 - typed version of the above titled "Chas. E. Mix's statement of the claim of the New York Indians to land in Kansas, copied on the typewriter by J.W. Bain", 7/5/1877 - "Copy of the Act as passed by the Senate and House to authorise the Cattaraugus and Allegheny Indians in New York to lease lands and confirm leases...", 1873 - "Minutes of proceedings (so far as interpreted) of a Council with the Seneca Indians 10 mo. 24, 1873. Council called at request of members of Indian Committee to present a form of memorial to Congress, and accompanying bill, designed to remove existing difficulties of the Seneca Nation" - "Schedule of Indian Reservations in the United States, about 1874" - "County of Cattaraugus, State of New York, the Seneca Nation of Indians and the United States of America Treaty", 1874 - "A brief statement of the rights of the Seneca Indians in the State of New York,..." [3 copies, see 1872 version above], 1877 - Printed legislation, 1872-1878 - Papers concerned with the rights of the Corn Planter people to vote (includes correspondence with D. Sherman, Indian Agent), 1877