Chapter 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
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CHAP. 859.— 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. February 28, 1903.[[Public, No. 125](/us/pl/34/125).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That jurisdiction is herebyArkansas.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 herebyFederal jurisdiction retained. asserted and retained over all portions of the said reservation that have not been specially aliened.
Approved, February 28, 1903.