Sol #1200 — 1866 Humason lease: Cattaraugus county-record trail

Commit 9325ad3b · repo 1866-humason-seneca-lease-cattaraugus-record-reference (87973088). New York Laws of 1866, chapter 263 (March 30, printed p. 560, PDF leaf 592) ratified “a certain lease and contract” by the Seneca Nation of Indians to James J. Humason concerning part of the Cattaraugus Indian reservation. Instrument dated and executed June 10, 1865, recorded Cattaraugus County clerk June 20, 1865, liber four of miscellaneous records at page 691. Validated “for the uses and purposes in said instrument mentioned” — uses, metes, term, consideration, acreage not reproduced. Printed chapter heading Humason; volume index lists Hamason — printed-source variant; county record should settle spelling.

Cattaraugus reservation ≠ Allegany. Distinct from #1199 Jack Lewis ch.36 individual lessor, #1198 Nation-to-church ch.119, #1197 council ≤50-acre ch.472. Recording citation is the archival resolution — not proof uses were carried out, rent paid, parcel surveyed as later described, or title survived court review. Liber 4 p.691 and any judgments remain unexamined. Standing 379 LOCKED.