Volume 30
Public Law 55–340
Declaring the Federal jail at the city of Fort Smith, Arkansas, a national prison for certain purposes.
Approved May 17, 1898
Statutory text
An Act
Declaring the Federal jail at the city of Fort Smith, Arkansas, a national prison for certain purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Federal jail at the city
Fort Smith, Ark.
Federal jail declared a national prison.
of Fort Smith, Arkansas, in addition to the purposes for which it is now used, is hereby declared to be a national prison, for the confinement of persons convicted of crimes and misdemeanors in the United States courts and commissioners’ courts in the Indian Territory, in cases where the term of imprisonment does not exceed one year, admission
—admission into.
into said prison to be under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Attorney-General of the United States. And said
—additional use.
jail may also be used for the care and confinement of United States prisoners in the Texarkana division of the western district of Arkansas.
Approved, .