Petition from Erie County Residents, 1827 February 13.

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Petition from Erie County Residents, 1827 February 13.

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Petition to the New York State Assembly requesting improvements on the road through the Buffalo Indian Reservation. "...solicit your honorable body to pass a law authorizing the Board of Supervisors of said County of Erie to annually raise by tax... such sum of money... may deem proper to be laid out in improvements on said road..."

3 pages.

American Periodical Series I

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Buffalo Indian Reservation.

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New York (State). Legislature. Assembly

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The legislature had final authority over all land transactions and agreements with Indians. Petitions concerning such transactions and agreements were addressed to the legislature and referred to the assembly, which in turn referred the petition to various three-member committees or to the surveyor general or the comptroller. From the description of Petitions, correspondence and reports relating to Indians, 1783-1831. (New York State Archives). WorldCat record id: 84144073 I...