                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

RECESSION OF PORTION OF DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA (§ 1-311)

That portion of the District of Columbia which, by an act of the General
Assembly, passed December 3, 1789, was ceded to the United States and receded
and forever relinquished to this Commonwealth by an act of Congress approved
July 9, 1846, and accepted by the Commonwealth by an act of the General Assembly
adopted on February 3, 1846, shall be and remain reannexed to this Commonwealth
and constitutes a portion thereof, subject to such reservation and provisions
respecting the public property of the United States, as the United States
Congress has enacted in its act of recession.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 7-8; 1966, c. 102, § 7.1-9; 2005, c. 839.