Volume 32
Public Law 57–859
Confirming and ceding jurisdiction to the State of Arkansas over certain lands formerly in the Fort Smith Reservation in said State, and asserting and retaining Federal jurisdiction over certain other lands in said reservation.
Approved February 28, 1903
Statutory text
An Act
Confirming and ceding jurisdiction to the State of Arkansas over certain lands formerly in the Fort Smith Reservation in said State, and asserting and retaining Federal jurisdiction over certain other lands in said reservation.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That jurisdiction is hereby
Arkansas.
Jurisdiction to lands formerly in Fortsmith Reservation ceded to.
confirmed and ceded to the State of Arkansas over all those portions of the Fort Smith Reservation which have heretofore been aliened by the United States either to the city of Fort Smith in trust or other-wise, or to other parties; and complete Federal jurisdiction is hereby
Federal jurisdiction retained.
asserted and retained over all portions of the said reservation that have not been specially aliened.
Approved, February 28, 1903.