N.Y. Indian Law § 102

§ 102. Allotment of lands. The chiefs or headmen of the Saint Regis\nnation of Indians in the county of Franklin, in council, shall allot and\nset apart for any Indian or Indian family making application and not\npossessing land, so much of the tribal lands as they shall deem\nreasonable and just, and no tribal lands shall be appropriated by any\nIndian to his own use, without such consent and allotment. The clerk\nshall enter in a book, kept for that purpose, every allotment of tribal\nlands, set apart for any Indian or Indian family, and the part thereof\nfrom which such Indian or family may sell timber or trees or the part he\nis permitted to clear for the purposes of cultivation.\n