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Sol #1116 — Seneca election calendar shift (1848)

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New York’s 1848 chapter 300 (Apr 12) set the annual officer elections for Seneca people on the Cattaraugus and Allegany reservations to the first Tuesday of May each year — first election May 2, 1848 — and expressly repealed §24 of the earlier amendment governing those elections.

The statute schedules a calendar; it does not supply poll books, candidates, results, turnout, or proof that any election occurred. The earlier act is not reproduced in chapter 300 and remains to be inspected.

Stream separation
Distinct from Stockbridge #1115, Onondaga plank-road #1114, Shinecock #1113, and all 1851 annuity/agent streams. Statute = schedule only ≠ election result.

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