Legislation
SECTION 58
Acceptance of bribes prohibited
Indian (IND) CHAPTER 26, ARTICLE 4
§ 58. Acceptance of bribes prohibited. Every officer enumerated in
the last section, who shall accept any such gift, thing of value or any
promise to make the same, under any agreement that his vote, opinion,
judgment or action, shall be influenced thereby, or shall be given in
any particular manner, or upon any particular side of any question,
matter, cause or proceeding then pending, or which may be brought before
him in his official capacity, shall, upon conviction, be forever
disqualified from holding any office, trust or appointment under the
constitution or laws of the Seneca nation of Indians, and shall forfeit
his office and shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not
exceeding one year, or by fine not exceeding two hundred dollars, or
both, in the discretion of the court.
the last section, who shall accept any such gift, thing of value or any
promise to make the same, under any agreement that his vote, opinion,
judgment or action, shall be influenced thereby, or shall be given in
any particular manner, or upon any particular side of any question,
matter, cause or proceeding then pending, or which may be brought before
him in his official capacity, shall, upon conviction, be forever
disqualified from holding any office, trust or appointment under the
constitution or laws of the Seneca nation of Indians, and shall forfeit
his office and shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not
exceeding one year, or by fine not exceeding two hundred dollars, or
both, in the discretion of the court.