expense for which shall be paid from the moneys due the tribe from the state. The attorney of the Saint Regis tribe of Indians and the clerk of the tribe shall preside at the election, receive the ballots presented by the voters and deposit them in the respective ballot-boxes. Such clerk and attorney shall each be entitled to receive for such services the sum of four dollars per day for each day during which they are actually employed with such duties, to be paid out of the moneys due such tribe from the state. The polls of such election shall be open between the hours of nine o'clock in the morning and five o'clock in the afternoon. A voter voting at such election must, if challenged, before depositing his ballot, solemnly swear that he is at least twentyone years of age, that he resides on the American side of the line dividing the United States from Canada and that he is entitled to draw a share of the yearly annuity moneys, which oath shall be administered by the attorney of the tribe. (Added by chap. 642 of 1898, § 2.)

§ 109c. Canvass of votes.-Upon the closing of the poll at such election, such attorney and clerk shall count the votes cast thereat and publicly declare the result of such election, specifying the number of votes cast for each person at such election, and the names of the persons elected. The clerk shall enter on the tribal book the names of each person voted for at such election, the number of votes cast for each such person, the names of the persons elected to office and the terms for which they are to serve. (Added by chap. 642 of 1898, § 2.)

109d. Vacancies. If a vacancy shall occur for any reason in the office of chief or headman, subchief or clerk of such tribe the chiefs or headmen shall appoint a person to fill such vacancy, who shall hold office until the next succeeding annual election at which a person shall be elected to such office to hold office until the expiration of the term for which his predecessor was elected. (Added by chap. 642 of 1898, § 2.)

§ 110. Election of trustees.-The adult male members belonging to the Shinnecock tribe of Indians in Suffolk county, who for the preceding six months shall have resided on the reservation of said tribe, may meet on the first Tuesday in April in each year, at the place of holding town meetings in the town of Southampton, and by plurality of votes elect three persons, belonging to such tribes as trustees. The town clerk of said town shall attend and preside at such meetings and shall enter in a book kept by him for that purpose the names of the trustees chosen. He shall also enter in such book the proceedings of such trustees and of the justices of such town in reference to the allotment or leasing of Indian lands. (As amended by chap. 168 of 1896, § 1.)

§ 111. Powers of trustees.-Such trustees may allot the tribal lands to the individuals or families thereof; may direct on what part of such lands firewood and timber may be cut by such tribe; and, with the consent of three justices of the peace residing in or near the town of Southampton, may lease so much of such lands as they may deem for the benefit of the tribe, for a term not longer than three years.

8 112. Unlawful use of lands.-Any person, not of such tribe, who shall hire, use or occupy any lands of such tribe, which have been allotted by the trustees thereof, or any per son who shall occupy or use any of such lands without the consent of a majority of such trustees, and of at least two of such justices, obtained and entered in the book of the town clerk kept for such purpose, shall be liable to a penalty of twenty-five dollars for every acre hired, used or occupied. Any person belonging to such tribe, who shall cut any wood or timber on such lands, without the order and consent of such trustees and justices entered in such book, shall be liable to a penalty of ten dollars for each offense. One-half of any such penalty shall

be for the use of the overseers of the poor of the town of Southampton, and the other half shall go to any person who shall sue for the recovery thereof.

§ 113. Laws repealed. Of the laws enumerated in the schedule hereto annexed, that portion specified in the last column is repealed. Such repeal shall now revive a law repealed by any law hereby repealed, but shall include all laws amendatory of the laws hereby repealed.

114. When to take effect.-This chapter shall take effect on May 1st, 1893.