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Statutes > Virginia > Title-1 > Chapter-3-1 > 1-311§ 1-311. Recession of portion of District of Columbia.
That portion of the District of Columbia which, by an act of the GeneralAssembly, passed December 3, 1789, was ceded to the United States and recededand forever relinquished to this Commonwealth by an act of Congress approvedJuly 9, 1846, and accepted by the Commonwealth by an act of the GeneralAssembly adopted on February 3, 1846, shall be and remain reannexed to thisCommonwealth and constitutes a portion thereof, subject to such reservationand provisions respecting the public property of the United States, as theUnited States Congress has enacted in its act of recession.
(Code 1950, § 7-8; 1966, c. 102, § 7.1-9; 2005, c. 839.)
