Section 45. The clerk  


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  • The clerk of each nation shall act as clerk at every
      annual or special meeting thereof, and in the meetings of the council of
      the  nation.  He  shall  have  the  custody of all the books, papers and
      records belonging to such nation.  The  council  of  each  nation  shall
      furnish  the clerk thereof with a book, at the expense of the nation, in
      which he shall enter all proceedings and the results of all elections at
      every annual or special meeting of such nation; and all  orders,  rules,
      regulations  and  certificates  made  or  granted  by the council of the
      nation, and if of the Tonawanda nation, the names of the chiefs thereof.
      Every certificate, order or other matter certified by the clerk to be  a
      true extract from his minutes shall be evidence thereof. The clerk shall
      receive  an  annual  salary  of  not  exceeding  fifty  dollars,  to  be
      determined by the council. The clerk of the Tonawanda nation shall  also
      act  as  clerk  at  all  hearings before the peacemakers' courts, or any
      other tribunal established by law on their reservation, and shall  enter
      in the record book of the peacemakers' courts all entries required to be
      made therein.