Description: [ebay 244] STATE OF NEW-YORK. No. 197. IN ASSEMBLY, April 20, 1846. MESSAGE From the Governor transmitting a memorial of the Seneca Indians. EXECUTIVE CHAMBER, Albany, April 18th, 1846. } TO THE ASSEMBLY. I respectfully transmit to the honorable the Assembly, a memorial placed in my hands, yesterday, from "the Sachems, chiefs and war- riors of that part of the Seneca nation of Indians residing upon the Tonawanda Reservation." The subject to which this memorial relates is now before the As- sembly, and in the hands of a select committee of the House; and as it is not in the power of the executive to interpose in favor of these people, I deem it proper to make this disposition of their memorial addressed to me. The treaties of which they complain were made between the Uni- ted States and the Seneca Nation of Indians, and this State was in no way a party to those contracts. The pre-emptive right to the lands ceded by the treaties was granted to the State of Massachusetts by this State, in a compact between the two States for the settlement of jurisdiction and boundaries, entered into, I think, in the year 1787; so that, in the negociation of these treaties, the State of Massachu- [Assembly, No. 197.] 1 [u. n.
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