REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR I917 II 



§ (27 Indian Law (L. 1909, ch. 31) Custody of Indian wampum. 



The University of the State of New York, which was duly elected 

 to the office of wampum-keeper by the Onondaga nation on February 

 26, 1898, and which by unanimous action of its Regents on March 

 22, 1898, accepted such election as authorized to do by law, and 

 which accepted the custody of the wampums as formally transferred 

 to the Chancellor as part of the exercises and with the unanimous 

 approval, both of the election and transfer, by the council of the 

 Five Nations held in the senate chamber of the Capitol at Albany 

 on June 22, 1898, by duly chosen representatives of all the original 

 nations of the Ho-de-no-sau-nee, shall hereafter be recognized in all 

 courts and places, as having every power which has ever, at any 

 time, been exercised by any wampum-keeper of the Onondaga nation, 

 or of any of the Ho-de-no-sau-nee, otherwise known as the Five 

 Nations, or the Six Nations, or the Iroquois, and shall keep such 

 wampums in a fireproof building, as public records, forever, and is 

 hereby authorized to secure by purchase, suit, or otherwise, any 

 wampums which have ever been in the possession of any of the 

 Ho-de-no-sau-nee, or any preceding wampum-keeper, and which are 

 now owned by any of them or to which any of them is entitled, or 

 to which it is entitled, in law or in equity; and to maintain and carry 

 on suit to recover any of such wampums in its own name or in the 

 name of the Onondaga nation at any time notwithstanding that the 

 cause of action may have accrued more than six years, or any time, 

 before the commencement of any such suit. 



§ (159 Conservation Law (L. 1911, ch. 647) License to collect 

 or possess for propagation, scientific or exhibition purposes. The 

 commission may issue a license revocable at its pleasure to any 

 person, permitting the holder to collect or possess quadrupeds, birds, 

 birds' nests or eggs for propagation, scientific or exhibition purposes. 

 Before such license is issued, every applicant, except a game protector, 

 duly chartered museum or society incorporated for scientific or 

 public exhibition purposes, or an officer thereof, must file written 

 testimonials from two well-known scientific men; pay one dollar for 

 the license and file a bond in the penal sum of two hundred dollars 

 with two responsible sureties, to be approved by the commission, 

 conditioned that he will not violate the provisions of this article or 

 avail himself of the privileges of said license for purposes not herein 

 set forth. Persons receiving such license must report the result 

 of operation thereunder annually to the commission, at the expiration 

 of the license. Such license shall be in force for one year only from 



