Section 43. Qualifications of voters and eligibility to office  


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  • Every male
      Seneca Indian of full age  residing  on  the  Allegany,  Cattaraugus  or
      Tonawanda  reservations,  whose  name shall appear on the last preceding
      census taken for the purpose of distributing the annuities  due  to  the
      said Indians, shall be a qualified voter at all elections or meetings of
      the  electors  of his nation; and shall be eligible to any office filled
      thereat, except that the marshals, peacemakers  and  councilors  of  the
      Seneca  nation shall be residents of the reservation for which they were
      chosen, and the peacemakers of the Tonawanda nation shall be chosen from
      among the chiefs thereof. If any person offering to  vote  at  any  such
      election shall be challenged as unqualified, the presiding officer shall
      determine by an inspection of such last preceding census, upon his right
      to  vote;  and if he is challenged on the ground of not being twenty-one
      years of age, such officer shall ascertain the fact by the oath  of  the
      person  offering  his  vote,  or  of  any other Indian, which oath he is
      authorized to administer.