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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of A History of the Boundaries of Arlington
+County, Virginia, by Office of the County Manager, Arlington
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+Title: A History of the Boundaries of Arlington County, Virginia
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+Author: Office of the County Manager, Arlington
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+Release Date: July 30, 2011 [EBook #36902]
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BOUNDARIES OF ARLINGTON COUNTY ***
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+A HISTORY _of_
+
+THE BOUNDARIES _of_
+
+ARLINGTON COUNTY, VIRGINIA
+
+
+
+Office of the County Manager
+Arlington, Virginia
+1967
+
+
+  [Illustration: THE BOUNDARIES OF ARLINGTON
+  1791  1801  1846
+  1870  1875  1915  1929  1936  1946  1966]
+
+
+
+
+FOREWORD TO THE SECOND EDITION
+
+
+This collection of documentary references to the boundaries of
+Arlington County was first published in 1957. This new edition
+contains revisions made in the light of fuller knowledge, and brings
+the story up-to-date by taking account of the change in the common
+boundary with the City of Alexandria which went into effect on January
+1, 1966.
+
+This pamphlet can serve as a guide for those who need to know what
+jurisdiction covered this area at any particular time. It provides
+information for the student as well as the title searcher--in fact,
+for anyone interested in the history of what is now Arlington County.
+
+[Illustration: Signature of Bert W. Johnson]
+
+Bert W. Johnson
+County Manager
+
+
+
+
+A History of
+The Boundaries of
+Arlington County, Virginia
+
+
+
+
+TABLE OF CONTENTS
+
+
+                                                           Page
+
+Introduction--Arlington County Today                          1
+
+1608-1789                                                     2
+    The Charters of James I to the Virginia Company
+    Charles I Charter to Lord Baltimore
+    The Counties of the Northern Neck of Virginia
+
+1789-1847                                                     3
+    Into the District of Columbia:
+        Cession of 1789
+        Location of the Federal District
+    Out of the District:
+        Acts of 1846
+        In Virginia Once More, 1847
+
+ARLINGTON'S BOUNDARY WITH THE CITY OF ALEXANDRIA             14
+    Establishment of Alexandria as a Town
+    Territorial Accretions of Alexandria to 1870
+    County-City Separation, 1870
+    Annexations by Alexandria from Arlington, 1915 and 1929
+    Readjustment of Boundaries, 1966
+
+ARLINGTON'S BOUNDARY WITH THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA           24
+    Boundary of Commission of 1935
+    Acts of 1945 and 1946
+
+POSTSCRIPTS--TOWNS IN ARLINGTON COUNTY                       27
+    The Town of Falls Church
+    The Town of Potomac
+    No More Towns
+
+Appendix.
+
+Bibliography.
+
+
+
+
+A History of
+The Boundaries of
+Arlington County, Virginia
+
+
+It is one of those paradoxes so characteristic of Arlington that the
+area composing the County did not exist as a separate entity until it
+was ceded by Virginia to form part of the District of Columbia. The
+Act by which the Congress of the United States took jurisdiction over
+this area directed that that portion of the District which had been
+ceded by Virginia was to be known as the county of Alexandria.[1] (It
+was not until 1920 that it received the name of Arlington.)[2]
+
+        [1] Acts of Congress, February 27, 1801 and March 3, 1801. U.S.
+        Stat. at Large, Vol. 2, pp. 103, 115.
+
+        [2] Acts of Assembly, 1920, Chapter 241.
+
+The present boundaries of Arlington may be described as: Beginning at
+the intersection of Four Mile Run with the west shore line of the
+Potomac River, westwardly, in general along the line of Four Mile Run,
+without regard to its meanders, intersecting the south right-of-way
+line of the Washington and Old Dominion Railroad, then 1,858.44 feet
+to where the center line of Shirlington Road intersects the said south
+right-of-way line; thence south and slightly east to the center line
+of Quaker Lane, then following the center line of Quaker Lane to a
+point short of Osage Street in Alexandria where it moves to the north
+line of Quaker Lane; thence to the east right-of-way line of Leesburg
+Pike (King Street); thence with this line to the east side of 30th
+Street, South, in Arlington, northeast on 30th Street, South, to the
+circle; around said circle to the north side of South Columbus Street,
+along this line to 28th Street, South, returning for a short distance
+to Leesburg Pike, jogging east and north to 25th Street, South, and
+then back to Leesburg Pike; thence along the Pike to the common
+boundary of Alexandria and Fairfax; thence northeast along the former
+Alexandria-Fairfax boundary until it intersects the original boundary
+between Arlington and Fairfax; thence due northwest to a stone and
+large oak tree approximately 200 feet west of Meridian Avenue (North
+Arizona Street); thence due northeast to the shore of the Potomac;
+thence along the mean high water mark of the shore of the Potomac
+River, back to the point of beginning. This line encloses roughly
+16,520 acres, or approximately 25.7 square miles, thus making
+Arlington the third smallest county in the United States in respect to
+area.[3]
+
+        [3] The smallest is Kalawao County, Hawaii, and the second
+        smallest, Bristol County, Rhode Island.
+
+The boundaries of this area have been changed many times since it was
+first sighted by Captain John Smith on his voyage up the Potomac in
+1608--the year which can be said to mark the beginning of Arlington's
+history.
+
+
+_1608-1789_
+
+The circumstances which placed Arlington in Virginia began to take
+shape even earlier than 1608. The two companies organized to colonize
+Virginia were granted their first charter by James I of England on
+April 10, 1606.[4] This was styled "Letters Patent to Sir Thomas
+Gates, Sir George Somers, and others, for two several Colonies and
+Plantations, to be made in Virginia, and other parts and Territories
+of America." The patentees were authorized "... to make habitation,
+plantation, and to deduce a colony of sundry of our people into that
+part of America, commonly called Virginia ..." between 34° north
+latitude and 45° north and within 100 miles of the coast. Within this
+area the spheres of operation of the two companies (which came to be
+known as the London and Plymouth Companies because their principal
+backers hailed from one or the other of these English towns) were
+delineated. To the former was given the right to plant a colony within
+the area from north latitude 34° to 41°, and to the latter within the
+area from 38° to 45° inclusive. The overlapping area from 38° to 41°
+was open to settlement by either company, though neither might
+establish a settlement within 100 miles of territory occupied by the
+other. The actual jurisdiction of each company was limited to 50 miles
+in each direction from the first seat of plantation. This last
+restriction was not carried over into the second charter. (Map I.)
+
+        [4] Hening, Vol. i, p. 57. Cf. also Title 7.1, Sec. 1, _Code
+        of Virginia, 1950_.
+
+  [Illustration: MAP I
+  Bounds Set by First Two Charters of the Virginia Company
+  Drafted by W. B. Allison and B. Sims]
+
+Although the Plymouth Company sent out ships in the spring of 1607,
+the settlement attempted by them on the coast of Maine was abandoned
+the following year. The first settlement which was to prove permanent
+was made by the London Company whose ships, sailing from London in
+December 1606, reached the mouth of the James River in Virginia in
+April 1607. The founding of "James Cittie" provided a point of
+reference for the second charter of the London Company (which came to
+be known as the Virginia Company). This charter,[5] granted in 1609,
+gave it jurisdiction over
+
+    "all those lands, countries, and territories, situate, lying, and
+    being, in that part of America called Virginia, from the point of
+    land, called Cape or Point Comfort, all along the sea coast, to
+    the northward 200 miles, and from the said Point or Cape Comfort,
+    all along the sea coast to the southward 200 miles, and all that
+    space and circuit of land, lying from the sea coast of the
+    precinct aforesaid, up into the land, throughout from sea to sea,
+    west and northwest; and also all the islands lying within one
+    hundred miles, along the coast of both seas of the precinct
+    aforesaid;..."
+
+        [5] Hening, Vol. i, p. 80. Cf. also Title 7.1, Sec. 1, _Code
+        of Virginia, 1950_.
+
+This grant reflects the view of the best geographers of the day that
+the Pacific Ocean lapped the western side of the as yet unexplored and
+unnamed Appalachian Mountains.
+
+The third charter of the Virginia Company,[6] granted in 1612,
+extended the eastern boundaries of the colony to cover "... all and
+singular those Islands whatsoever, situate and being in any part of
+the ocean seas bordering upon the coast of our said first colony in
+Virginia, and being within three hundred leagues of any the parts
+heretofore granted ..." This was done to include Bermuda which had
+been discovered in the meantime. The charter of the Virginia Company
+was annulled in 1624 by King James I, and its lands became a Crown
+Colony. By this time, however, the Virginia settlements were firmly
+established on and nearby the James River, and the Potomac River to
+the falls was well known to traders with the Indians.
+
+        [6] Hening, Vol. i, p. 100.
+
+The first limitation upon the extent of the "Kingdom of Virginia," as
+it was referred to by King Charles I, who succeeded his father in
+1625, came with the grant to Lord Baltimore of a proprietorship over
+what became Maryland. This patent was granted in 1632; the first
+settlers reached what became St. Mary's on the Potomac in 1634. That
+part of the grant which is pertinent to the boundaries of Arlington
+reads:
+
+    "Going from the said estuary called Delaware Bay in a right line
+    in the degree aforesaid to the true meridian of the first fountain
+    of the river Potomac, then tending downward towards the south to
+    the farther bank of the said river and following it to where it
+    faces the western and southern coasts as far as to a certain place
+    called Cinquack situate near the mouth of the same river where it
+    discharges itself in the aforenamed bay of Chesapeake and thence
+    by the shortest line as far as the aforesaid promontory or place
+    called Watkins Point."[7]
+
+        [7] Report of the District of Columbia-Virginia Boundary
+        Commission, 74th Congress, 2nd Session, _H.D. 374_, p. 3.
+        Cf. also, Hall, _Narratives of Early Maryland, 1633-1684_,
+        p. 102.
+
+The most significant words of this grant, from the point of view of
+Arlington, are "the farther banks of the said river." They explain why
+the boundary between Arlington and the District of Columbia runs along
+the Virginia shore of the river and not in midstream, and why
+Roosevelt Island, which lies nearer Arlington than to the District, is
+not a part of Arlington. The Constitution of Virginia adopted in 1776
+acknowledges this grant:
+
+    "The territory contained within the charters erecting the colonies
+    of Maryland ... are hereby ceded, released, and forever confirmed
+    to the people of those colonies ..."[8]
+
+        [8] Paragraph 21, Virginia Constitution of 1776. Hening, Vol.
+        i, p. 56. Cf. also, _Code of Virginia, 1950_, Title 7.1, Sec.
+        1.
+
+Although at the time Charles I gave this grant to Lord Baltimore
+Virginia was a Crown Colony and thus it could not be contended that he
+was giving away lands he had no power to cede since they already had
+been given to others, the Maryland-Virginia boundary became a subject
+of controversy as soon as the first Maryland settlers arrived, and has
+continued so until almost the present time. Indeed, one might say that
+the ghost has been laid only temporarily since echoes of the dispute
+appear in today's newspapers: "Maryland and Virginia Start New Round
+in Oyster War"--"Pentagon Area a No Man's Land." These headlines
+derive in a direct line from the grant of King Charles I to Calvert,
+Lord Baltimore, in 1632.[9]
+
+        [9] Conway, _The Compacts of Virginia_, p. 8.
+
+To leave, for a time, the Potomac boundary of Arlington, let us turn
+to the narrowing of the boundaries of the landward side of the County.
+In the development of governmental administration, counties began to
+be created in Virginia in mid-17th Century. The area which became
+Arlington was successively in Northumberland, Westmoreland, Stafford,
+Prince William, and finally, Fairfax counties. (Map II.) Consequently,
+the history of land tenure and legislation for Arlington must be
+sought in the records of these counties for the relevant period.
+
+  [Illustration: MAP II
+  Development of Northern Neck Counties
+  Drafted by W. B. Allison and B. Sims]
+
+Northumberland County was definitely created in 1648 by an Act of the
+General Assembly[10] which provided
+
+    "that the said tract of land ['Chickcoun and other parts of the
+    Neck of land between Rappahonock River and Potomack River'] be
+    hereafter called and knowne by the name of the county of
+    Northumberland...."
+
+        [10] Hening, Vol. i, p. 352. Northumberland was first mentioned
+        by name in an Act (IX) of February 1645, and sent its first
+        representative to the Legislature for the session of November
+        1645.
+
+and was given power to elect Burgesses. A later Act[11] declared:
+
+    "_It is enacted_, That the inhabitants which are or shall be
+    seated on the south side of the Petomecke River shall be included
+    and are hereafter to be accompted within the county of
+    Northumberland."
+
+        [11] Act III, October 1649. Hening, Vol. i, p. 362.
+
+Settlement was pushing north, however, and in July 1653, Westmoreland
+was carved out of the then existing Northumberland. It was decreed:
+
+    "ordered by this present Grand Assembly that the bounds of the
+    county of Westmorland be as followeth (vizt.) from Machoactoke
+    river where Mr. Cole lives: And so upwards to the falls of the
+    great river of Pawtomake above the Necostins Towne."[12]
+
+        [12] Hening, Vol. i, p. 381.
+
+Conditions on the frontier, however, made it necessary in 1662 to
+unite Westmoreland and Northumberland counties for administrative
+purposes "until otherwise ordered by the governor."[13] There is no
+record of the date of his later decision to separate the two counties
+but he must have done so.
+
+        [13] Hening, Vol. ii, p. 151.
+
+Similarly, there is no definite record of the establishment of
+Stafford County. The first legislative reference to Stafford is in an
+Act[14] exempting the inhabitants of Stafford because of the "newnesse
+of its ground" from a general requirement laid upon counties to employ
+a weaver and set up a public loom. In this year of 1666 Stafford sent
+a delegate to the General Assembly. The County, however, must have
+been in existence earlier since there is a record of the Stafford
+County Court Book which on page one relates to a meeting of the Court
+for the County on May 27, 1664.[15] The boundaries of the County are
+nowhere set forth at this early date, but that they encompassed the
+Arlington area is clear from a direction of the Legislature in 1676
+that a fort be established "on Potomack river at or near John Mathews
+in the county of Stafford."[16] John Mathews' land was on the lower
+side of Great Hunting Creek[17] but there would have been no reason at
+that time to erect a separate county to the north.
+
+        [14] Act VIII, October 1666.
+
+        [15] Robinson, _Virginia Counties_, p. 87. This court book
+        may also be inspected at the Stafford County Court House.
+
+        [16] Hening, Vol. ii, p. 327.
+
+        [17] Stetson, _Four Mile Run Land Grants_, p. 1.
+
+There were no further changes affecting the county within which
+Arlington lay until 1730 when Prince William County was formed. An Act
+of the General Assembly declared that after March 25, 1731,
+
+    "all the land, on the heads of the said counties [Stafford and
+    King George] above the Chopawansick Creek, on Patomack river, and
+    Deep run, on Rappahannock river and a southward line to be made
+    from the head of the north branch of the said creek to the head of
+    the said Deep run, be divided and exempt from said counties ...
+    and be made a distinct county, and shall be called and known by
+    the name of Prince William County."[18]
+
+        [18] Acts of Assembly, May 1730, Chapter XVII. Hening, Vol. iv,
+        p. 303.
+
+It was not many years until Fairfax County came into being:
+
+    "... from and immediately after the first day of December now next
+    ensuing, the said county of Prince William be divided into two
+    counties: That is to say, all that part thereof, lying on the
+    south side of Occoquan, and Bull Run; and from the head of the
+    main branch of Bull Run, by a straight course to the Thoroughfare
+    of the Blue Ridge of mountains, known by the name of Ashby's Gap
+    or Bent, shall be one distinct county, and retain the name of
+    Prince William County: And be one distinct parish, and retain the
+    name of Hamilton parish. And all that other part thereof,
+    consisting of the parish of Truro, shall be one other distinct
+    county, and called and known by the name of Fairfax county...."[19]
+
+        [19] Acts of Assembly, May 1742, Chapter XXVII. Hening, Vol. v,
+        p. 207.
+
+Thus from December 1742 until the District of Columbia was formally
+organized by Act of Congress (February 27, 1801) what is now Arlington
+was part of Fairfax County.
+
+
+_1789-1847_
+
+Maryland and Virginia had agreed to meet in 1785 to discuss the
+controversy over the navigation of the Potomac and their joint
+boundary. The Commissioners who took part in this meeting did more
+than draw up a compact subsequently ratified by their respective
+States. From this meeting eventually came the call for the convention
+which resulted in the Constitution of the United States and the
+decision to set aside a tract of land ten miles square for the seat of
+the Federal Government.
+
+The Maryland-Virginia compact on the Potomac was signed on March 28,
+1785, and confirmed by the General Assembly of Virginia in 1786.[20]
+Although it was designed primarily to settle navigation and fishing
+rights, its seventh section provided: "The citizens of each State,
+respectively, shall have full property rights in the shores of
+Patowmack river adjoining their land...." This has been interpreted to
+mean property rights to low water mark. The dispute over this point
+became of significance in the 20th Century with the construction of
+the National Airport and the Pentagon Building.
+
+        [20] Acts of Assembly, 1785, Chapter XVII. Hening, Vol. xii,
+        pp. 50-55. Cf. also _Code of Virginia, 1950_, Title 7.1,
+        Section 7, and Conway, _The Compacts of Virginia_, p. 5. The
+        Potomac River Fisheries Compact of 1958 (Acts of Assembly,
+        1962, Chapter 406; _Code of Virginia 1950_, Title 28.1, Sec.
+        203) did not affect Arlington.
+
+Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution of the United States gives
+the Congress power to accept a territory not exceeding ten miles
+square to be set aside as the seat of the Federal Government. The
+story of the compromise which led to the selection of a site on the
+Potomac is told in all the history books.[21] These, however, rarely
+give the details of how the exact area which became the District of
+Columbia came to be chosen.
+
+        [21] Cf. for example, Samuel Eliot Morison & Henry Steele
+        Commager, _The Growth of the American Republic_, Vol. I,
+        p. 332. New York, 1962. Leon H. Canfield & Howard B. Wilder,
+        _The Making of Modern America_, p. 148. Boston, 1964.
+
+In 1789, the Virginia legislature adopted an Act[22] offering to cede
+"ten miles square, or any lesser Quantity of Territory within the
+State" to the United States for the permanent seat of the general
+government. Section I of this Act recited the motive: "Whereas the
+equal and common benefits resulting from the administration of the
+general government will be best diffused, and its operation become
+more prompt and certain, by establishing such a situation for the seat
+of the said government, as will be most central and convenient to the
+citizens of the United States at large, having regard as well to
+population, extent of territory, and a free navigation to the Atlantic
+Ocean, through the Chesapeake bay, as to the most direct and ready
+communication with our fellow citizens in the western frontier; and
+whereas it appears to this Assembly that a situation combining all
+considerations and advantages before recited, may be had on the banks
+of the river Patowmack, above tide water, in a country rich and
+fertile in soil, healthy and salubrious in climate, and abounding in
+all the necessaries and conveniences of life, where in a location of
+ten miles square, if the wisdom of Congress shall so direct, the
+States of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia may participate in such
+location."
+
+        [22] Acts of Assembly, 1789, Chapter XXXII, p. 19.
+
+It is clear from the inclusion of Pennsylvania as one of the
+participating States, and the reference to "above tide water" that the
+Virginia legislators of those days had in mind a tract somewhat higher
+up the river than that which was eventually chosen. Indeed, the first
+Act of Congress[23] dealing with this subject set the limits within
+which the Federal District was to be established "on the river
+Potomac, at some place between the mouths of the Eastern Branch and
+Connogochegue" (a tributary of the Potomac some 20 miles south of the
+Pennsylvania State line) and authorized the President to appoint three
+commissioners to survey and "by proper metes and bounds" define and
+limit the district to be accepted by the Congress.
+
+        [23] July 16, 1790.
+
+By a proclamation of January 24, 1791,[24] President Washington
+directed that a survey should be made.
+
+        [24] Richardson, _Messages and Papers of the Presidents_,
+        Vol. I, p. 100.
+
+    "... after duly examining and weighing the advantages and
+    disadvantages of the several situations within the limits
+    aforesaid, I do hereby declare and make known that the location of
+    one part of the said district of 10 miles square shall be found by
+    running four lines of experiment in the following manner, that is
+    to say: Running from the court-house of Alexandria, in Virginia,
+    due southwest half a mile, and thence a due southeast course till
+    it shall strike Hunting Creek, to fix the beginning of the said
+    four lines of experiment.
+
+    "Then beginning the first of the said four lines of experiment at
+    the point on Hunting Creek where the said southeast course shall
+    have struck the same, and running to the said first line due
+    northwest 10 miles; thence the second line into Maryland due
+    northeast 10 miles; thence the third line due southeast 10 miles,
+    and thence the fourth line due southwest 10 miles to the beginning
+    on Hunting Creek."
+
+Since the tract thus specified did not lie within the limits set by
+the Act of July 1790, the Congress was asked to authorize the moving
+of the southern boundary point of the "ten miles square" farther south
+to include the Eastern Branch and the town of Alexandria. Accordingly,
+the Act of July 16, 1790, was amended by an Act approved March 3,
+1791:
+
+    "... it shall be lawful for the President to make any part of the
+    territory below the said limit [the confluence of the Eastern
+    Branch with the Potomac] and above the mouth of Hunting Creek, a
+    part of said district, so as to include a convenient part of the
+    Eastern Branch, and of the lands lying on the lower side thereof
+    and also the town of Alexandria...."
+
+No time was lost in establishing definite boundaries for the new
+district, and on March 30, 1791, President Washington issued a
+proclamation declaring
+
+    "that the whole of the said territory shall be located and
+    included within the four lines following, that is to say:
+
+    "Beginning at Jones's Point, being the upper cape of Hunting
+    Creek, in Virginia, and at an angle in the outset of 45 degrees
+    west of the north, and running in a direct line 10 miles for the
+    first line; then beginning again at the same Jones's Point and
+    running another direct line at a right angle with the first across
+    the Potomac 10 miles for the second line; then from the
+    termination of the said first and second lines running two other
+    direct lines of 10 miles each, the one crossing the Eastern Branch
+    aforesaid and the other the Potomac, and meeting each other in a
+    point.
+
+    "... and the territory so to be located, defined, and limited
+    shall be the whole territory accepted by the said acts of Congress
+    as the district for the permanent seat of the Government of the
+    United States."[25]
+
+        [25] Richardson, _Messages and Papers of the Presidents_, Vol.
+        I, p. 102.
+
+The cornerstone was set at Jones Point, on the bank of the Potomac
+below Alexandria, on April 15, 1791. Many of the original stones, set
+at intervals of one mile along the boundary, are still in place though
+badly showing the effects of time.[26] The stone referred to
+earlier--at the northwest corner of present Arlington County--is
+chipped and almost overgrown by the great oak tree near which it was
+placed. A small tract surround this stone has been set aside as a
+public park, jointly owned by the City of Falls Church and the
+counties of Arlington and Fairfax.
+
+        [26] Ernest A. Shuster, Jr., "Original Boundary Stones of the
+        District of Columbia"; _The National Geographic Magazine_,
+        Vol. XX, pp. 356-359 (April, 1909).
+
+It is interesting that the Acts of Congress setting up the District of
+Columbia should have specified that no public buildings were to be
+erected on the Virginia side of the Potomac.[27] The Act of 1790
+empowered the commissioners to buy or accept the gift of land for the
+site of public buildings only on the eastern side of the Potomac. The
+Act of 1791 made this limitation more explicit:
+
+    "... nothing herein contained, shall authorize the erection of
+    public buildings otherwise than on the Maryland side of the river
+    Potomac."
+
+        [27] It has been hinted that George Washington insisted upon
+        this to refute rumors that he had been influenced in his choice
+        of a site by motives of personal gain since he owned land in
+        Arlington. Cf. Moore, _Seaport in Virginia_, p. 39.
+
+It is curious that this should have been so since the General Assembly
+of Virginia in 1789 followed its Act ceding territory for the
+formation of a Federal District by a joint resolution promising to
+appropriate not less than $120,000 (a considerable sum in those days)
+for public buildings in this territory if Maryland would put up an
+amount not less than three-fifths as much. The fact that there were no
+Federal office buildings on the Virginia side of the Potomac was used
+as an argument for the retrocession of this area in mid-19th Century.
+
+The compromise which had resulted in the selection of the Potomac as
+the site of the Federal District included an agreement that the seat
+of the Government should be in Philadelphia for a period of ten years.
+Accordingly, it was not until 1800 that the Congress and Government
+offices were moved to the City of Washington in the District of
+Columbia.
+
+Almost from the beginning there was dissatisfaction among the
+inhabitants of Alexandria County at being part of the District of
+Columbia. This sentiment crystallized in 1846 when the General
+Assembly adopted an Act[28] expressing the willingness of Virginia to
+accept the territory should the Congress re-cede it. A petition was
+presented to the Congress by the residents requesting that this be
+done. The petition was referred to the Committee on the District which
+reported:
+
+    "The experience of more than forty years seems to have
+    demonstrated that the cession of the county and town of Alexandria
+    was unnecessary for any of the purposes of a seat of government,
+    mischievous to the interests of the State at large, and especially
+    injurious to the people of that portion which was ceded by
+    Virginia."[29]
+
+        [28] Acts of Assembly, 1845-47, p. 50.
+
+        [29] Quoted in "Remonstrance of the Mayor and Citizens of
+        Alexandria...."
+
+Accordingly, a bill was introduced to turn back to Virginia the
+area ceded by it in 1789. After considerable debate as to its
+constitutionality, the bill was enacted on July 9, 1846. It stipulated
+that the retrocession should be contingent upon a referendum among the
+people of the area in question. The referendum was held[30] and the vote
+was 763 for and 222 against retrocession.
+
+        [30] Although the "Remonstrance" cited above states that the
+        vote was held on August 17, 1846, the presidential proclamation
+        putting the transfer into effect declares the poll to have been
+        taken _viva voce_ at the Court House on September 1 and 2.
+        The August date is given in the proclamation as that on which
+        five commissioners were appointed by the President and directed
+        to take the poll.
+
+On September 7, 1846, President Polk announced the results of the
+referendum and called "upon all and singular the persons whom it doth
+or may concern to take notice that the act aforesaid [of July 9, 1846]
+'is in full force and effect.'"[31] It was not until the next year,
+however, that Virginia got around to extending its jurisdiction over
+the "county of Alexandria." On March 13, 1847, "An Act to extend the
+jurisdiction of the Commonwealth of Virginia over the county of
+Alexandria" was passed. It stated:
+
+    "... The territory comprising the county of Alexandria in the
+    District of Columbia heretofore ceded by this Commonwealth to the
+    United States and by an Act of Congress of July 9, 1846, retroceded
+    to Virginia and by it accepted shall be an integral portion of the
+    Commonwealth."
+
+        [31] Richardson, _Messages and Papers of the Presidents_, Vol.
+        IV, p. 470. The legality of the retrocession was unsuccessfully
+        challenged in 1875. Cf. _Phillips_ v. _Payne_, U.S. Reports,
+        S.C. Otto 2, p. 130.
+
+The Act provided that after March 20, 1847, the laws of Virginia were
+to be in force in this territory, and went on:
+
+    "That the territory so retroceded and accepted, comprising the
+    county of Alexandria, shall constitute a new county, retaining the
+    name of the county of Alexandria, the court-house whereof shall be
+    in the Town of Alexandria where the courts now sit...."[32]
+
+        [32] Acts of Assembly, 1846-47, Chapter 53. Cf. also, _Code of
+        Virginia, 1950_, Title 7.1, Sec. 9. For a full account of the
+        actions on the part of both the United States and Virginia in
+        connection with this retrocession, cf. Harrison Mann,
+        "Chronology of Action on the Part of the United States to
+        Complete Retrocession of Alexandria County (Arlington County)
+        to Virginia," _The Arlington Historical Magazine_, Vol. 1, No.
+        1 (1957), pp. 15-23; and "Chronology of Action on the Part of
+        the State of Virginia to Complete Retrocession of Alexandria
+        County (Arlington County) to Virginia" _Ibid._, Vol. 1, No. 2
+        (1958), pp. 43-51.
+
+Tentative efforts have been made from time to time to re-annex this
+area to the District of Columbia. It was on one such occasion, in 1865,
+that a "Remonstrance of the Mayor and Citizens of Alexandria against
+the Bill to annex the city and county of Alexandria to the District of
+Columbia" concluded that "Annexation to the District at this time is
+repugnant to the feelings and wishes and would be ruinous to the
+interests of the people of Alexandria."
+
+
+_Arlington's Boundary with the City of Alexandria_
+
+Until 1870, Alexandria, first as a Town and, after 1852 as a City, was
+geographically part of the County of Alexandria. However, its
+boundaries must be considered from the beginning because all Acts
+extending the area of the Town were made in reference to the
+pre-existing limits. It is impossible to comprehend the effect of any
+given change without tracing the boundaries back to--or forward
+from--the beginning. (Map III.)
+
+  [Illustration: MAP III
+  Boundaries of the Town and City of Alexandria 1749 to 1915
+  Drafted by W.B. Allison and B. Sims]
+
+In 1748, a charter was issued to a group of trustees to establish a
+Town
+
+    "covering 60 acres of land, parcel of the lands of Philip
+    Alexander, John Alexander, and Hugh West, situate, lying and being
+    on the south side of Potomac River about the mouth of Great Hunting
+    Creek and in the county of Fairfax ... beginning at the mouth of
+    the first branch above the warehouse, and extending down the
+    meanders of the said River Potomac to a point called Middle Point,
+    and thence down the said river ten poles; and from thence by a line
+    parallel to the dividing line between John Alexander's land and
+    Philip Alexander, and back into the woods for the quantity
+    aforesaid."[33]
+
+        [33] Hening, Vol. vi, p. 214. Cited by title as "An Act for
+        erecting a town at Hunting Creek warehouse, in the county of
+        Fairfax." The text of the Act is given in the _Journal of the
+        House of Burgesses_, and quoted in Caton, _Legislative
+        Chronicles of the City of Alexandria_, p. 7.
+
+The land was surveyed and lots sold by auction in July 1749. A map with
+a notation of the purchasers was made by George Washington,[34] at that
+time a boy of seventeen. On the north, the lots lay along the north
+side of Oronoco Street, one block below Water Street (later Lee; at
+that time it was interrupted between Queen and King Streets by the
+shore line of the River), and on the south, lots were laid off on the
+south side of Duke Street. The Potomac with its bend between Oronoco
+and the south side of Prince Street, formed the eastern boundary, while
+the western was a line of lots on the west side of Royal Street. There
+were 84 lots in all, four to a block for the most part except for the
+northwest portion where a stream, rising on Pitt Street between Cameron
+and Queen, drained into the Potomac north of Oronoco Street. This is
+the "first branch above the warehouse" referred to in the charter.
+
+        [34] In the Library of Congress. Reproduced in Moore,
+        _Seaport in Virginia_, pp. 10-11.
+
+The first increment came in 1762 when the General Assembly passed "An
+Act for enlarging the town of Alexandria in the county of Fairfax."[35]
+On the ground that all of the lots included within the bounds of the
+town had been built on except for some lying in low wet marsh, this Act
+included in Alexandria the
+
+    "... lands of Baldwin Dade, Sibel West, John Alexander the elder
+    and John Alexander the younger which lie contiguous to the said
+    town ... beginning at the corner of the lot denoted in the plan of
+    said town by the figures 77 [at the south side of Duke St., three
+    lots from its intersection with Water (Lee) Street] on the said
+    river Potowmack, at the lower end of the said town, and to extend
+    thence down the said river the breadth of two half acres, and one
+    street thence back into the fields, by a line parallel to the lower
+    line of the said town, such a distance as to include ten half acre
+    lots and four streets; thence by a line parallel with the present
+    back line of the said town to the extent of seventeen half acre
+    lots and eight streets, and from thence by a line at right angles
+    with the last to the river."
+
+        [35] Hening, Vol. vii, p. 604. Acts of Assembly, November 1762,
+        Chapter XXV.
+
+Until 1779 the Town of Alexandria had had no formal government, being
+managed by a Board of Trustees whose interest was primarily in the sale
+of land. In that year, however, the Town was incorporated by the
+General Assembly with provision for a Mayor, Council, and other
+officials. The charter[36] made no mention of boundaries except to give
+the town authorities jurisdiction over the territory within a half mile
+of the town limits. Another Act[37] adopted at the same session stated
+that lots had been laid off by John Alexander adjacent to the town in
+1774 and sold with the stipulation that they be built on within two
+years. Because of the difficulty of obtaining building materials due to
+wartime conditions not all the purchasers had been able to meet this
+requirement. The Act extended the period within which building on these
+lots was required to two years
+
+    "after the end of the present war ... and the same are hereby
+    annexed to and made part of the said town of Alexandria."
+
+        [36] Hening, Vol. x, p. 172. "An Act for incorporating the town
+        of Alexandria in the County of Fairfax."
+
+        [37] Hening, Vol. x, p. 192. Acts of Assembly, 1779, Chapter
+        XXXI: "An Act to confirm certain sales and leases by the
+        trustees of the town of Alexandria and to enlarge said
+        town...."
+
+The width and direction of the streets to be laid off in the area
+surrounding the Town was regulated by an Act of 1785,[38] but this did
+not extend the actual town limits. The area affected was described as:
+
+    "Beginning at Great Hunting Creek and running parallel with Fairfax
+    street to four mile run or creek so as to intersect King street
+    when extended one mile west of the courthouse, thence eastwardly
+    down the said creek or run to its confluence with the Potomac
+    river, thence southwardly down the said river to the mouth of Great
+    Hunting Creek...."
+
+        [38] Acts of Assembly, October 1785, Chapter XCI. Hening, Vol.
+        xii, p. 205.
+
+In the next year, however, the Legislature provided
+
+    "That the limits of the town of Alexandria shall extend to and
+    include as well the lots formerly composing the said town, as those
+    adjoining thereto which have been and are improved."[39]
+
+        [39] Acts of Assembly, October 1786, Chapter LXXIII. Hening,
+        Vol. xii, p. 362.
+
+The town was still growing, and ten years later the General Assembly
+again extended its legal limits.
+
+    "Whereas several additions of lots contiguous to the town of
+    Alexandria have been laid off by the proprietors of the land in
+    lots of half an acre each extending to the north that range of lots
+    upon the north side of a street called Montgomery; upon the south,
+    to the line of the District of Columbia [this line had been
+    surveyed but Alexandria had not yet been incorporated in the
+    District] upon the west, to a range of lots upon the west side of
+    West street, and upon the east to the river Patowmac; that many of
+    the lots in those additions have already been built upon, and many
+    more will so be improved; and whereas it has been represented to
+    the General Assembly that the inhabitants residing on said lots are
+    not subject to the regulations made and established for the orderly
+    government of the town and for the preservation of the health of
+    the inhabitants, by the prevention and removal of nuisances, upon
+    which their property and well being does very much depend:
+
+    "1. _Be it Therefore Enacted_: That each and every lot or part
+    of a lot within the aforesaid limits, on which at this time is
+    built a dwelling house of at least 16 feet square, or equal thereto
+    in size, with a brick or stone chimney and that each and every lot
+    within said limits which shall hereafter be so built upon, shall be
+    incorporated with the said town of Alexandria and considered as
+    part thereof."[40]
+
+        [40] Acts of Assembly, November 1796, Chapter 32. Shepherd,
+        Vol. ii, p. 41.
+
+The following year this Act was amended[41] to include unimproved lots
+since their development was being hindered by the exclusion. These were
+the boundaries of the Town when it became part of the District of
+Columbia. They remained unchanged for nearly half a century thereafter.
+The charter for the town adopted by the Congress on February 25,
+1804,[42] specified that the limits should be those prescribed by the
+Acts of Virginia. The jurisdiction of the town officials, however, was
+extended to the
+
+    "house lately built in the vicinity of the town for the accommodation
+    of the poor and others"
+
+and over the ten acres of ground surrounding the poor house. This is at
+what is now Monroe Street and Jefferson Davis Highway. Although the
+Charter was amended several times while Alexandria was in the District,
+no changes were made in the Town boundaries.
+
+        [41] Acts of Assembly, December 1797, Chapter 60. Shepherd,
+        Vol. ii, p. 122.
+
+        [42] U.S. _Stat. at Large_, Vol. 2, p. 255.
+
+After the retrocession of "the county and town of Alexandria" (v.s., p.
+13) not only were the boundaries changed, but the Town was chartered as
+a City. Section 22 of the new charter[43] provided:
+
+    "The line of the City of Alexandria shall be extended on the north
+    and west as follows: Beginning in the Potomac River at a point
+    distant northerly in the direction of Fairfax Street four hundred
+    nineteen feet and two inches from the north line of the present
+    corporate limits of the town of Alexandria in said river, and
+    running thence westerly, parallel with said north line, to a point
+    at which it would intersect the present western line if extended
+    north four hundred nineteen feet and ten inches; thence
+    southwesterly with the present western line but the said city
+    council shall have authority to make such police and sanitary
+    regulations of the territory reaching ten feet west of the western
+    bank of Hooff's or Mushpot Run; then parallel to and at that
+    distance from said run to the line dividing Alexandria from Fairfax
+    county; then southeasterly with said dividing line to the present
+    southwest corner of the said town of Alexandria."
+
+        [43] Acts of Assembly, 1852, Chapter 358, p. 241.
+
+The next year the Charter was amended,[44] again altering the
+boundaries:
+
+    "Beginning in the Potomac river at a point distant northwardly in
+    the direction of Fairfax street four hundred and nineteen feet and
+    two inches from the present north line of the corporate limits of
+    the town in said river, and running westerly parallel to said north
+    line to intersect the west line of said limits produced northwardly
+    four hundred and nineteen feet and two inches; thence southwardly
+    with said west line produced to the northwest corner of the said
+    limits; thence eastwardly with the said north line into the river;
+    then northwardly to the beginning: Beginning again at the
+    intersection of the northwestern line of said limits with the north
+    line of Cameron street; then southwardly with said western line, to
+    the county line; then northwardly with the county line to the point
+    where it intersects the brick wall on the south side of the Little
+    River Turnpike road; then northwardly by a straight line to the
+    east corner of John Hooff's lot on the south side of King street
+    extended; then crossing King street extended to the west corner of
+    the lot of the late Col. Francis Peyton; then with the west line of
+    said lot and the course thereof to the north line of Cameron street
+    extended; then by a straight line to the beginning."
+
+        [44] Acts of Assembly, 1853, Chapter 484. Adopted February 18,
+        1853.
+
+The next addition came in 1858[45] when the boundaries were described
+as:
+
+    "Beginning in the Potomac River, at a point distant northerly, in
+    the direction of Fairfax Street five hundred and ninety five feet
+    and nine inches from the north line of Montgomery street, as now
+    established in said city, and extended into said river; and running
+    thence westerly and parallel with said north line to a point at
+    which this course will intersect a line one hundred twenty three
+    feet and five inches west of and running parallel to the western
+    line of West street as now established, when extended; thence
+    southerly parallel with West street, to the north line of Cameron
+    street as now established; thence westerly in the direction of the
+    north line of Cameron street extended, to a point in a line with
+    the west line of the lot of the late Francis Peyton, on which he
+    resided; thence southerly, parallel with West street, to the south
+    line of King street, extended; thence in a straight line to a point
+    in the line dividing the county of Fairfax and Alexandria from each
+    other, ten feet west of Hoof's Run; thence southerly, parallel to,
+    and distant 10 feet from Hoof's Run to the middle of Hunting Creek
+    thence with the middle of Hunting Creek into the Potomac River;
+    then up the said river to the beginning."
+
+        [45] Acts of Assembly, 1858, Chapter 270. Enacted April 2,
+        1858.
+
+This line remained in effect until January 27, 1865, when an amendment
+to the charter[46] withdrew from the jurisdiction of the city all the
+territory in Fairfax county (bounded by the old District line, Hooff's
+Run and Hunting Creek) which had been added to the town by the charter
+of 1858. The next year, on January 25, 1866, the General Assembly
+rescinded this action and restored the boundaries of 1858.[47] A further
+change occurred in this area on February 20, 1871, when the last part
+of the description was changed to read:
+
+    "... to a point in the line dividing the county of Fairfax and
+    Alexandria from each other, ten feet west of Hooff's Run; thence
+    southerly with the said line into the Potomac River; thence up said
+    river to the beginning."[48]
+
+        [46] Acts of Assembly 1865/66, Chapter IX.
+
+        [47] Acts of Assembly 1866/67, Chapter 152.
+
+        [48] Acts of Assembly 1871, Chapter 73. The frequent and rapid
+        changes in this boundary appear to have been related to the
+        complexion of the electorate in the affected area and the
+        varying political sentiments of the immediate post Civil War
+        and Reconstruction periods.
+
+A major change occurred on May 1, 1870, when the City of Alexandria was
+excluded from the County. This came about through the implementation of
+an Act of the Assembly[49] following the adoption of a new Virginia
+Constitution in 1869. In delineating the magisterial districts into
+which counties were to be divided it was provided that "no part of any
+town or city having a separate organization, or a population of five
+thousand or more inhabitants, shall be embraced." Alexandria was such a
+city and thereafter was independent of as well as outside of the
+County.
+
+        [49] Acts of Assembly, 1869-70, Chapter 39.
+
+  [Illustration: MAP IV
+  Areas Annexed by the City of Alexandria in 1915 and 1929
+  Drafted by W. B. Allison and B. Sims]
+
+There were no further legislative changes in the boundaries of the City
+of Alexandria after 1871. In 1915, however, the Supreme Court of
+Appeals of Virginia, reversed a decision of the Circuit Court of
+Alexandria County given on January 13, 1913. The City Council of
+Alexandria had sought to annex adjoining territory from both Fairfax
+and Alexandria counties and had been opposed by the authorities of
+those counties who had been upheld by the Circuit Court. The Order of
+the Supreme Court of Appeals[50] transferred 866 acres from Arlington
+and 450 acres from Fairfax to Alexandria.
+
+        [50] Alexandria County, _Deed Book 146_, p. 387. See Appendix.
+        Cf. also, C. B. Rose, Jr., "Annexation of a Portion of
+        Arlington County by the City of Alexandria in 1915," _The
+        Arlington Historical Magazine_, pp. 22-36, Vol. 2, No. 4
+        (1964). For a discussion of the judicial process of annexation,
+        cf. Bain, _Annexation in Virginia_.
+
+This annexation took effect on April 1, 1915. Once more thereafter
+Arlington County--as it became known after 1920[51]--was to lose
+territory to the City of Alexandria. This was in 1929 when a decision
+of the Supreme Court of Appeals[52] rendered May 4, 1929, found in favor
+of the City of Alexandria which had begun annexation proceedings in
+December 1927.
+
+        [51] Acts of Assembly, 1920, Chapter 241.
+
+        [52] Arlington County, _Common Law Order Book 12_, p. 293.
+        Also, _Deed Book 306_, p. 300.
+
+The Court held that "it is necessary and expedient that the corporate
+limits of the City of Alexandria should be extended" and that "the
+territory to be annexed from Arlington County is a reasonably compact
+body of land and contains no land which is not adapted to city
+improvement, and the Court being also of the opinion that no land is
+included which the City will not need in the reasonably near future for
+development ..."
+
+The Court ordered the annexation[53] to take effect on December 31,
+1929. The line thus established remained in effect until January 1,
+1966.
+
+        [53] See Appendix.
+
+This was the last annexation of territory from Arlington County. A
+special provision of the Act[54] establishing the County Manager plan
+of government, adopted by Arlington in 1930, effective January 1, 1932,
+prevents the annexation of any _part_ of the County (but permits
+annexation of the _entire_ County after referendum). In 1938, as a
+further precaution, the legislative delegation representing Arlington
+County succeeded in having the General Assembly enact a law[55] which
+prohibits the annexation of territory from any county which would
+result in reducing the area of that county to less than 60 square miles
+of highland. Since Arlington has less than 26 square miles, this Act
+effectively checks any further such encroachments upon its territory.
+
+        [54] Acts of Assembly, 1930, Chapter 167; Cf. also, _Code of
+        Virginia, 1950_, Title 15.1, Sec. 692.
+
+        [55] Acts of Assembly, 1938, Chapter 22; Cf. also, _Code of
+        Virginia, 1950_, Title 15.1, Sec. 1056.
+
+Development on both sides of the 1929 boundary line, construction of
+streets and notably of the Henry G. Shirley Memorial Highway--and
+especially changes in the channel of Four Mile Run--eventually brought
+dissatisfaction with that line. In 1962, the Arlington and Alexandria
+legislative delegations secured enactment by the General Assembly of an
+Act[56] permitting an adjustment in the boundary to be concluded by
+mutual agreement between the governing bodies of the County and the
+City, the agreement to be recorded in the Clerk's Office of both
+jurisdictions.
+
+        [56] Acts of Assembly, 1962, Chapter 314.
+
+Negotiations began after the area affected had been surveyed and the
+private property which might be the subject of exchange had been
+appraised. Impetus was given by the need of Arlington for land in
+connection with enlargement of the County sewage treatment facilities;
+this land, although on the North side of Four Mile Run fell in
+Alexandria. Finally, the Arlington County Board gave approval in
+principle to a draft proposal on April 10, 1965,[57] and on April 13,
+1965, the Alexandria City Council followed suit. A public hearing was
+held on May 5, 1965, but final action was deferred pending refinement
+of the proposal. In December 1965, the final agreement was recorded[58]
+and the transfer of certain publicly owned property approved by the
+Circuit Court. The net gain to Arlington's area was 167 acres.
+
+        [57] Arlington County Board Minute Book XXI, p. 54.
+
+        [58] Alexandria _Deed Book_, 641, p. 188 (December 21, 1965);
+        Arlington _Deed Book_, 1609, p. 453 (December 23, 1965);
+        Arlington _Common Law Order Book_ 85, p. 197. For the
+        description of the new boundary, see Appendix.
+
+This procedure for rectifying boundaries between a County and a City is
+highly unusual in the Virginia experience.
+
+
+_Arlington's Boundary with the District of Columbia_
+
+No definite effort was made at the time of the recession of Alexandria
+County to Virginia to draw a boundary line between the County and the
+remaining portion of the District of Columbia. As noted above, the
+various acts bringing about the recession referred only to "the
+territory heretofore ceded by the Commonwealth of Virginia." The actual
+boundary was of small moment at the time.
+
+Toward the end of the 19th Century, however, the United States
+Government acquired lands on the Virginia shore of the Potomac largely
+through the purchase of the Arlington estate. As the 20th Century
+progressed, roads (notably the Mount Vernon Boulevard and later the
+George Washington Memorial Parkway) were constructed, bridges and
+bridge approaches built and, eventually, the Federal Government
+undertook to construct the National Airport at Gravelly Point below
+Alexander's Island. A suit[59] over government activity in making a land
+fill raised questions as to the exact location of the boundary--and
+indeed as to whether Alexander's Island really was an island or was a
+peninsula. This case, decided by the U.S. Supreme Court on May 4,
+1931, set the boundary line between the District of Columbia and
+Virginia at the high water mark of the Potomac on the Virginia shore as
+it existed in 1791.
+
+        [59] _Washington Airport_ vs. _Smoot Sand and Gravel Corp_.,
+        283 U.S. 348. Cf. also, _Marine Railroad and Coal Co_. v.
+        _U.S._, 257 U.S. 47.
+
+But where had that high water mark been? There had been no survey at
+the time; the shore line had never been marked; and even had it been,
+the passage of time had made many changes in the river front.[60] A
+Commission was established[61] to deal with this question. The
+instructions to this Commission were to take into consideration the
+decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States, the findings and
+report of the Maryland-Virginia Commission of 1877[62] and the
+Maryland-Virginia compact of 1785.[63]
+
+        [60] This indefinite boundary line "lies in many places some
+        distance from the Potomac River." _Report No. 895_, H.R., 78th
+        Congress, 1st Session.
+
+        [61] 48 U.S. Stat. 453; Virginia Acts of Assembly, 1932, p.
+        485.
+
+        [62] _Code of Virginia, 1950_, Title 7.1, Sec. 7. This
+        Commission dealt only with the boundary below Jones Point but
+        chose _low water mark_ as the line. The pertinent words of
+        the agreement (ratified by Virginia in 1878) are: "The low
+        water mark on the Potomac to which Virginia has a right in the
+        soil, is to be measured ... from low-water mark at one headland
+        to low water at another, without following indentations, bays,
+        creeks, inlets, or affluent rivers. Virginia is entitled not
+        only to full dominion over the soil to low water mark on the
+        south shore of the Potomac, but has a right to such use of the
+        river...." Interpretation of this agreement took many years and
+        it was 1930 before the line actually was surveyed and
+        monumented.
+
+        [63] _Code of Virginia, 1950_, Title 7.1, Sec. 7. Cf. also
+        page 9 above.
+
+The Commission accumulated a large volume of testimony and exhibits and
+completed its report[64] in 1935. It found that the "fair and proper
+boundary is the low water mark on the Virginia shore running from
+headland to headland across creeks and inlets." It pointed out that
+inasmuch as the mark of 1791 could not be determined the low water mark
+should be accepted as of this day. It suggested that an exception be
+made at Roaches Run where the line should run 150 feet west of and
+parallel to the west line of the Mount Vernon Boulevard.
+
+        [64] Report of District of Columbia--Virginia Boundary
+        Commission, 74th Congress, 2nd Session, _House Document_ 374.
+
+Several bills[65] were introduced into Congress to give effect to the
+decision of the Commission but none was enacted at this time. The
+completion of the Airport and the Pentagon Building gave urgency to the
+problem: conflicts of jurisdiction hampered law enforcement and
+complicated the question of tax collection. Moreover, Virginia was
+anxious to insure that the liquor control laws of the State and not
+those of the District of Columbia should be in effect at the National
+Airport. In 1942, the General Assembly had adopted an Act[66] covering
+the boundary question, on the assumption that the bill then pending in
+Congress would be passed. Disagreement over the details of the
+jurisdiction to be ceded and accepted by Virginia and the United States
+Government prevented passage of a Federal Act until 1945 when Public
+Law 208 was enacted by the 79th Congress. This was followed by an
+Act[67] of the Virginia General Assembly repealing the 1942 Act and
+ratifying the 1945 Federal Act.
+
+        [65] 76th Congress, 3rd Session, H.R. 9976; S. 4114. 77th
+        Congress, 1st Session, H.R. 1045; H.R. 5073. 78th Congress, 1st
+        Session, S. 19; H.R. 746; H.R. 3664. The Arlington County Board
+        endorsed H.R. 9976; cf. Minute Book V, p. 423 and VII, p. 500.
+
+        [66] Acts of Assembly, 1942, Chapter 267.
+
+        [67] Acts of Assembly, 1946, Chapter 26. _Code of Virginia,
+        1950_, Title 7.1, Sec. 10.
+
+This law is in effect today. It provides that the boundary line
+
+    "shall begin at a point where the northwest boundary of the
+    District of Columbia intercepts the high-water mark of the Virginia
+    shore of the Potomac River and following the present mean
+    high-water mark; thence in a southeasterly direction along the
+    Virginia shore of the Potomac River to Little River, along the
+    Virginia shore of Little River to Boundary Channel, along the
+    Virginia side of Boundary Channel to the main body of the Potomac
+    River, along the Virginia side of the Potomac River across the
+    mouths of all tributaries affected by the tides of the river to
+    Second Street, Alexandria, Virginia, from Second Street to the
+    present established pierhead line, and following said pierhead line
+    to its connection with the District of Columbia-Maryland boundary
+    line; that whenever said mean high-watermark on the Virginia shore
+    is altered by artificial fill and excavations made by the United
+    States, or by alluvion or erosion, then the boundary shall follow
+    the new mean high-water mark on the Virginia shore as altered, or
+    whenever the location of the pierhead line along the Alexandria
+    water front is altered, then the boundary shall follow the new
+    location of the pierhead line."
+
+The Act also provided that all the land on the Virginia side of the
+Potomac lying between the boundary line as now adopted and the mean
+high water mark as it existed on January 24, 1791 (wherever that was!)
+should be ceded to the State of Virginia. The United States, however,
+reserved concurrent jurisdiction over this area.
+
+Here the matter rests very uneasily today. The exact line was surveyed,
+monumented, and mapped by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey over the
+years 1946-1947.[68] However, the working agreements reached by the law
+enforcement officials of the various jurisdictions concerned have not
+always proven satisfactory. The long history of the location of the
+Potomac River boundary of Arlington County cannot yet be said to have
+reached its end.
+
+        [68] Unpublished Report dated March 27, 1947, from Lt. Comdr.
+        Roswell C. Bolstad, Chief of Party, on Project G-815, Coast and
+        Geodetic Survey, Department of Commerce.
+
+
+_Postscript--Towns in Arlington County_
+
+Of the three towns which have lain within Arlington County, the only
+one whose limits have been of importance to the territorial extent of
+the County is Alexandria. Nonetheless, to complete the record, some
+mention should be made of the Town of Potomac and the Town of Falls
+Church, the first of which lay wholly within Arlington, and the second,
+partly so.
+
+Falls Church is the older town. It was chartered by the General
+Assembly on March 30, 1875.[69] The charter set forth the boundaries as:
+
+    "Beginning at the corner of Alexandria and Fairfax Counties on J.
+    C. DePutron's farm; thence to the corner of W. H. Ellison and Koon
+    [sic] on D. H. Barrett's line; thence to the corner of Sewell and
+    Hollidge, on the new cut road; thence to the corner of J. E. Birch
+    and H. J. England, on the Falls Church and Fairfax Courthouse road;
+    thence to a stone in the road being a corner of B. F. Shreve,
+    Newton, and others; thence to the crossing of the Alexandria and
+    Georgetown roads at Taylor's corners; thence along the line of said
+    Georgetown road to the corner of Samuel Shreve and John Febrey;
+    thence to a pin oak tree near Dr. L. E. Gott's spring; thence to
+    the northeast corner of John Brown's barn; thence to the crossing
+    of Isaac Crossmun's and Bowen's line on the Chain Bridge Road;
+    thence to the place of beginning."
+
+        [69] Acts of Assembly 1874/75, Chapter 316.
+
+  [Illustration: MAP V
+  The Towns of Falls Church and Potomac in Arlington County
+  Drafted by W. B. Allison and B. Sims]
+
+After Arlington adopted the County Manager form of government, the
+residents of so much of the Town of Falls Church as lay within
+Arlington County (Map V) sought to have the charter amended to reduce
+the limits of the Town to that portion which lay in Fairfax. An action
+was brought on July 7, 1932, and the Circuit Court granted the petition
+on January 17, 1935.[70] This decision was appealed, however, and it was
+not until the next year (April 30, 1936) that the order went into
+effect,[71] after the lower court had been upheld by the Virginia
+Supreme Court of Appeals.
+
+        [70] Arlington County, _Common Law Order Book 16_, p. 235 and
+        p. 309.
+
+        [71] Arlington County, _Common Law Order Book 17_, p. 130 and
+        p. 138.
+
+The area affected by the order is described as:
+
+    "Beginning at a large planted stone on the estate of the late J. C.
+    DePutron, at the original western corner of the District of
+    Columbia, which is also at the corner of Fairfax and Arlington
+    counties, and at the corner of the Town of Falls Church; thence
+    with the boundary of said Town S. 83° 15' E. 2,404 feet more or
+    less, to a planted stone in the center of Little Falls Street also
+    called the Chain Bridge Road, at a point at which said street is
+    intersected by the boundary of the land formerly known as the Bowen
+    tract; thence with the boundary of said Town S. 49° 15' E. 3,482
+    feet, more or less, to a planted granite stone at a point which
+    formerly marked the northeast corner of John Brown's barn; thence
+    with the boundary of said Town S. 28° 45' E. 2,410 feet, more or
+    less, to a point at which there formerly stood a large pin oak on
+    the Gott tract; thence with the boundary of the said Town S. 4° 15'
+    W. to the boundary between Fairfax and Arlington counties; thence
+    with the said boundary in a northwesterly direction to the place of
+    beginning."
+
+The Town of Potomac was chartered by the General Assembly in 1908.[72]
+Its boundaries (Map V) were described as:
+
+    "Beginning at the north intersection of Bellefont Avenue in the
+    subdivision of 'Del Ray' with the Washington and Alexandria
+    Turnpike, thence northerly along the west line of the Turnpike to
+    the old Georgetown Road, the northern boundary of the subdivision
+    of St. Elmo; thence westerly along the south side of the Georgetown
+    Road to the dividing line of Susan P. A. Calvert and Charles E.
+    Wood; thence with the line of Calvert and Wood to the west line of
+    the Washington, Alexandria and Mt. Vernon R.R. Co., to its
+    intersection with Lloyd's Lane and Bellefont Avenue to the
+    beginning."
+
+        [72] Acts of Assembly 1908, Chapter 273.
+
+All this area was included in the annexation to Alexandria which was
+effected in 1929 (cf. p. 23).
+
+One proposed town deserves mention. In 1920 a group of citizens
+petitioned the Circuit Court for a town charter for Clarendon. The
+Court denied the petition. Upon appeal, the Supreme Court of Appeals of
+Virginia upheld the lower court, declaring that all of Arlington County
+was a "continuous, contiguous, and homogeneous community" and as such
+should not be subjected to subdivision for the purpose of incorporating
+a town.[73] Since Arlington is even more a "continuous, contiguous, and
+homogeneous" community than it was in 1922 there is no prospect that
+ever again will there be a town within the bounds of the County.
+
+        [73] _Bennett_ v. _Garrett_, 112 S.E. 772, decided June 15,
+        1922.
+
+
+
+
+
+APPENDIX
+
+
+_Annexation of 1915_
+
+Text of the order of the Supreme Court of Appeals setting the area to
+be annexed by Alexandria as of April 1, 1915:
+
+    "1st. That the following territory in Fairfax County be, and the
+    same is hereby annexed to the City of Alexandria, to
+    wit:--Beginning at a point in mid-channel of Hunting Creek
+    southward of Alexandria Water Company's pumping station with the
+    east side of a lane, called Robert's Lane; running thence
+    northwardly with the east line of said Lane, extended, and with the
+    east line of said Lane to the south side of the Little River
+    Turnpike; thence across the Little River Turnpike in the same
+    direction to the extreme west corner of Shooter's Hill section of
+    George Washington Park sub-division; thence with the west boundary
+    of said Shooter's Hill section to the corner of said Shooter's Hill
+    section and Section No. 2 of said sub-division; thence with the
+    west boundary of said Section No. 2 of said sub-division to a point
+    on the south side of Janney's Road fifty (50) feet west from the
+    intersection of the south side of Janney's Road and the west side
+    of the Leesburg Turnpike; thence continuing to about 25 degrees
+    east to the old District of Columbia line, being the dividing line
+    between said Fairfax County and Alexandria County; and thence
+    southwestwardly with the said old District line to Jones Point on
+    the Potomac River; thence southwardly down the said River to the
+    mid-channel of Hunting Creek: thence with the meanderings of the
+    mid-channel of Hunting Creek up stream, to the point of
+    beginning.... 2nd. That the following described territory in
+    Alexandria County be, and the same is, hereby annexed to the City
+    of Alexandria: Beginning at the northwest corner of the present
+    city boundary, and extended said line westwardly, in the same
+    course until it intersects with the north side of the Braddock
+    Road; thence southwardly, to the Old District line at the northwest
+    corner of the land annexed from Fairfax County; thence with the
+    said old District line southeastwardly to the southwest corner of
+    the present city boundary about twenty feet west of Hooff's Run;
+    thence following the western boundary line of the present city to
+    the northwest corner of the present boundary line of the city and
+    the point of beginning.... And it is further ordered that the
+    boundary lines of the City of Alexandria after annexation shall be
+    as follows: Beginning in the Potomac River at the northeast corner
+    of the present boundary of the City of Alexandria and following the
+    present north boundary line of the City of Alexandria to the
+    northwest corner of the City, thence prolonging said line in the
+    same direction until it intersects with the north side of the
+    Braddock Road; then southwardly to a point on the south side of
+    Janney's Lane fifty (50) feet from the west side of Leesburg
+    Turnpike; thence southwardly along the west boundary line of George
+    Washington Park subdivision to the Alexandria Water Company
+    property and reservoir; thence southwardly with the west line of
+    Alexandria Water Company's property to the north side of the Little
+    River Turnpike; thence across the Little River Turnpike and with
+    the east side of Robert's Lane and continuing with the east side of
+    Robert's Lane extended to the mid-channel of Hunting Creek; thence
+    downstream with the meandering of the mid-channel of Hunting Creek
+    to the Potomac River, thence up the Potomac River to Jones Point
+    and thence with the west side of the Potomac River to the point of
+    beginning, the northeast corner of the present boundary of the City
+    of Alexandria."
+
+
+_Annexation of 1929_
+
+Text of the order of the Supreme Court of Appeals setting the area to
+be annexed by Alexandria as of December 31, 1929:
+
+    "Beginning at the intersection of the north corporate limits of
+    Alexandria Virginia with the west shore of the Potomac River,
+    thence extending N. 80° 39' W. along said north boundary line to
+    the northwest corner of the corporate limits as the same was
+    established prior to the year 1915; thence with the line as
+    established March 22, 1915, and continuing said north corporate
+    line N. 80° 39' W., 4,353.86 feet to a set stone at the corner on
+    the north side of the Braddock Road within the subdivision of
+    Northwest Alexandria; thence S. 30° 11' W., 1,892.20 feet to the
+    intersection with the line separating Fairfax and Arlington
+    Counties; thence with the line of said two counties N. 45° 02' 50"
+    W., 6,434.88 feet to a point in the center line of the Braddock
+    Road (having passed over an original milestone in said county line
+    at 3,244.70 feet); thence following along the center line of said
+    Braddock Road, S. 84° 22' 30" E., 264.20 feet to a point where said
+    Braddock Road is intersected by the southwardly projection of the
+    Seminary Road: thence departing from said Braddock Road and
+    following along the center line of said Seminary Road the following
+    courses: N. 5° 02' 30" E. 811.50 feet, N. 22° 46' 30" E. 611.05
+    feet, N. 1° 23' W., 1,551.40 feet, N. 20° 03' E. 319.13 feet, N.
+    19° 48' E. 385.49 feet, N. 37° 45' W. 183.32 feet, N. 2° 57' E.
+    140.89 feet, N. 28° 00' E. 165.41 feet, N. 5° 59' E., 145.83 feet
+    N. 13° 47' W. 436.37 feet, N. 9° 02' W. 1,447.08 feet, and N. 2°
+    10' 30" E. 274.90 feet to the point where said center line of said
+    Seminary Road intersects the south right-of-way line of the
+    Washington and Old Dominion Railway; thence with said south
+    right-of-way line S. 77° 39' 30" E., 1885.80 more or less, to the
+    center line of the channel of Four Mile Run; thence down the
+    mid-channel line of said Four Mile Run following the meanderings
+    thereof as the same passes under the Washington Virginia Railway
+    (now the Mount Vernon, Alexandria and Washington Railway) the
+    Washington and Alexandria Road, and extending to the intersection
+    of the said Run with the Potomac River; thence following along the
+    west shore line of said Potomac River southwardly to the point of
+    beginning."
+
+
+_Boundary Adjustment 1966_
+
+Text of the description of the new Arlington-Alexandria boundary in
+effect on January 1, 1966, by mutual agreement:
+
+    "A line beginning at a point on the common boundary between Fairfax
+    County and the City of Alexandria, Virginia, said point being in
+    the existing right of way of Route #7 and is further defined as
+    point #134 having Virginia State Coordinates of N. 431,495.42 and
+    E. 2,395,581.64 as shown on a map recorded with a deed of
+    annexation in Deed Book 332, page 559, of the land records of the
+    City of Alexandria, Virginia; thence running along said common
+    boundary N. 55° 50' 10" E., 69.09 feet to the boundary corner #135
+    whose coordinates are N. 431,534.22 and E. 2,395,638.81, said point
+    #135 also being shown on the aforementioned boundary map; thence
+    still running with the last mentioned course and across Route #7
+    1.29 feet (70.38 feet in all) to a point having coordinates N.
+    431,534.94 and E. 2,395,639.88; thence running N. 09° 13' 10" E.
+    0.69 feet to a point lying on the northerly side of Route #7, 40
+    feet from same and having coordinates N. 431,535.62 and E.
+    2,395,639.99; thence running along the northerly side of Route #7
+    S. 66° 38' 20" E., 96.13 feet to a point of curvature whose
+    coordinates are N. 431,497.50 and E. 2,395,728.24 thence continuing
+    with said northerly side of Route #7 and its extension and
+    following the arc of a curve to the right whose radius is 2331.83
+    feet and whose chord and chord bearing are 810.17 feet and S. 56°
+    38' 05" E. respectively, for an arc distance of 814.30 feet to a
+    point on the extension of the northerly side of 25th Street, and
+    whose coordinates are N. 431,051.93 and E. 2,396,404.88; thence
+    running along said extension and thence with the northerly side of
+    said street N. 50° 54' 13" E., 39.53 feet to a point of curvature
+    whose coordinates are N. 431,076.86 and E. 2,396,435.56; thence
+    following the arc of a curve to the right whose radius is 115.60
+    feet and whose chord and chord bearing are 42.17 feet and N. 61°
+    24' 48" E. respectively, for an arc distance of 42.41 feet to a
+    point of tangency whose coordinates are N. 431,097.04 and E.
+    2,396,472.59; thence continuing along 25th Street N. 71° 55' 23" E.
+    220.00 feet to a point whose coordinates are N. 431,165.30 and E.
+    2,396,681.73; thence turning and running across 25th Street and
+    thence along the common boundary between lots #503 and #5 of
+    Section 1 of Claremont Subdivision, and thence across Beauregard
+    Street (its extension into Arlington County being known as S.
+    Walter Reed Drive) S. 18° 04' 37" E., 317.80 feet to a point on a
+    curve in the southerly side of Beauregard Street, said point having
+    coordinates N. 430,863.19 and E. 2,396,780.34; thence running along
+    the southerly side of said street and following the arc of a curve
+    to the left whose radius is 410.00 feet and whose chord and chord
+    bearing are 69.89 feet and S. 55° 47' 34.5" respectively, for an
+    arc distance of 69.97 feet to a point of tangency having
+    coordinates N. 430,823.90 and E. 2,396,722.54; thence continuing
+    along the southerly side of Beauregard Street and its extension S.
+    50° 54' 13" W. 83.66 feet to a point whose coordinates are N.
+    430,771.14 and E. 2,396,657.61, said point being 40 feet from the
+    centerline of the previously mentioned Route #7; thence running
+    parallel with but 40 feet from said centerline S. 37° 38' 20" E.
+    572.92 feet to a point whose coordinates are N. 430,317.46 and E.
+    2,397,007.48, said point being on the extension of the common
+    boundary between Section #1-A of Claremont and Section #2 of
+    Fairlington; thence running along said extension and thence along
+    said common boundary itself N. 44° 19' 57" E., 335.55 feet to a
+    point being the northwesterly corner of a parcel of land owned by
+    the City of Alexandria; and having coordinates N. 430,557.48 and E.
+    2,397,241.97; thence running with the northeasterly boundary of
+    said parcel S. 45° 38' 10" E., 242.71 feet to a point on a curve
+    having coordinates N. 430,387.77 and E. 2,397,415.49 and lying in
+    the northerly line of 28th Street; thence running along said
+    northerly line of 28th Street and following the arc of a curve to
+    the right whose radius is 311.48 feet and whose chord and chord
+    bearing are 37.57 feet and S. 64° 02' 05" E. respectively, for an
+    arc distance of 37.60 feet to a point of tangency whose coordinates
+    are N. 430,371.32 and E. 2,397,449.27; thence along the northerly
+    side of South Columbus Street S. 60° 34' 37" E., 415.05 feet to a
+    point of curvature having coordinates N. 430,167.42 and E.
+    2,397,810.79; thence running along the arc of a curve to the right
+    whose radius is 215.99 feet and whose chord and chord bearing are
+    162.40 feet and S. 38° 29' 37" E. respectively for an arc distance
+    of 166.50 feet to a point of tangency lying in the intersection of
+    29th Street and Columbus Street and having coordinates N.
+    430,040.31 and E. 2,397,911.87; thence running S. 16° 24' 37" E.
+    69.70 feet to a point of curvature on the northeasterly side of
+    Columbus Street and whose coordinates are N. 429,973.45 and E.
+    2,397,931.56; thence running along the northeasterly side of said
+    street and following the arc of a curve to the left whose radius is
+    691.20 feet and whose chord and chord bearing are 396.48 feet and
+    S. 33° 04' 37" E. respectively, for an arc distance of 402.12 feet
+    to a point of tangency, the coordinates of which are N. 429,641.22
+    and E. 2,398,147.94; thence running S. 49° 44' 37" E. 545.56 feet
+    to a point of curvature whose coordinates are N. 429,288.67 and E.
+    2,398,564.29; thence following the arc of a curve to the left whose
+    radius is 20.00 feet and whose chord and chord bearing are 21.94
+    feet and S. 83° 00' 35.5" E. respectively, for an arc distance of
+    23.22 feet to a point of reversed curvature whose coordinates are
+    N. 429,286.00 and E. 2,398,586.07; thence running around the circle
+    of the intersection of Columbus and 30th Streets and following the
+    arc of a curve to the right whose radius is 93.00 feet and whose
+    chord and chord bearing are 177.22 feet and S. 08° 36' 07" E.
+    respectively, for an arc distance of 349.54 feet to a point of
+    curvature whose coordinates are N. 429,110.77 and E. 2,398,612.58;
+    thence following the arc of a curve to the left whose radius is
+    20.00 feet and whose chord and chord bearing are 21.94 feet and S.
+    65° 48' 21.5" W. respectively, for an arc distance of 23.22 feet to
+    a point of tangency on the southeasterly side of 30th Street, said
+    point having coordinates N. 429,101.78 and E. 2,398,592.57; thence
+    running along the southeasterly side of said street S. 32° 32' 23"
+    W., 136.28 feet to a point of curvature whose coordinates are N.
+    428,986.89 and E. 2,398,519.27; thence following the arc of a curve
+    to the left whose radius is 25.00 feet and whose chord and chord
+    bearing are 35.36 feet and S. 12° 27' 37" E. respectively, for an
+    arc distance of 39.27 feet to a point on the northeasterly side of
+    Route #7, said point having coordinates N. 428,952.36 and E.
+    2,398,526.90; thence running S. 57° 27' 37" E. 62.54 feet to a
+    point whose coordinates are N. 428,918.72 and E. 2,398,579.62;
+    thence running S. 56° 42' 37" E. 713.53 feet to a point of
+    curvature, said point having coordinates N. 428,527.08 and E.
+    2,399,176.06; thence following the arc of a curve to the right
+    whose radius is 6056.68 feet and whose chord and chord bearing are
+    1137.63 feet and S. 51° 19' 17" E., respectively for an arc
+    distance of 1139.31 feet to a point of tangency on the
+    northeasterly side of Route #7, said point having coordinates N.
+    427,816.12 and E. 2,400,064.17; thence running along the
+    northeasterly side of Route #7, S. 45° 55' 57" E., 2926.68 feet to
+    a point of curvature whose coordinates are N. 425,780.60 and E.
+    2,402,167.05; thence following the arc of a curve to the left whose
+    radius is 25.00 feet and whose chord and chord bearing are 29.63
+    feet and S. 82° 16' 52.5" E. respectively, for an arc distance of
+    31.72 feet to a point on the northerly side of Quaker Lane, said
+    point having coordinates of N. 425,776.62 and E. 2,402,196.41;
+    thence following the northerly side of Quaker Lane N. 61° 22' 12"
+    E. 25.35 feet to a point of curvature whose coordinates are N.
+    425,788.77 and E. 2,402,218.66; thence following the arc of a curve
+    to the left whose radius is 880.83 feet and whose chord and chord
+    bearing are 594.59 feet and N. 41° 38' 39.5" E. respectively, for
+    an arc distance of 606.50 feet to a point of tangency having
+    coordinates N. 426,233.10 and E. 2,402,613.77; thence turning and
+    running S. 68° 04' 53" E. 47.00 feet to a point whose coordinates
+    are N. 426,215.56 and E. 2,402,657.37, said point being on the
+    centerline of Quaker Lane; thence running along the centerline of
+    same N. 21° 55' 07" E. 492.76 feet to a point of curvature having
+    coordinates N. 426,672.70 and E. 2,402,841.31; thence following the
+    arc of a curve to the left whose radius is 1200.00 feet and whose
+    chord and chord bearing are 499.27 feet and N. 09° 54' 42.5" E.
+    respectively, for an arc distance of 502.94 feet to a point of
+    tangency whose coordinates are N. 427,164.52 and E. 2,402,927.25;
+    thence running N. 02° 05' 42" W. 993.05 feet to a point whose
+    coordinates are N. 428,156.91 and E. 2,402,890.95; said point lying
+    in the intersection of Quaker Lane and Crestwood Drive; thence
+    continuing along the centerline of Quaker Lane N. 00° 59' 42" W.,
+    201.72 feet to a point of curvature whose coordinates are N.
+    428,358.60 and E. 2,402,887.45; thence following the arc of a curve
+    to the right whose radius is 595.00 feet and whose chord and chord
+    bearing are 204.00 feet and N. 08° 52' 33" E. respectively, for an
+    arc distance of 205.01 feet to a point of tangency having
+    coordinates N. 428,560.16 and E. 2,402,918.93; thence running N.
+    18° 44' 48" E., 122.09 feet to a point of curvature having
+    coordinates N. 428,675.77 and E. 2,402,958.17; thence running along
+    the arc of a curve to the left whose radius is 2181.87 feet and
+    whose chord and chord bearing are 237.27 feet and N. 15° 37' 47" E.
+    respectively, for an arc distance of 237.39 feet to a point of
+    tangency having coordinates N. 428,904.27 and E. 2,403,022.10;
+    thence running N. 12° 30' 46" E. 88.70 feet to a point of curvature
+    having coordinates N. 428,990.86 and E. 2,403,041.32 and lying in
+    the intersection of Quaker Lane, 32nd Road South, and Preston Road;
+    thence following the arc of a curve to the left whose radius is
+    243.67 feet and whose chord and chord bearing are 44.38 feet and N.
+    07° 17' 14.5" E. respectively, for an arc distance of 44.44 feet to
+    a point of tangency having coordinates N. 429,034.88 and E.
+    2,403,046.95; thence running N. 02° 03' 43" E. 264.98 feet to a
+    point of curvature whose coordinates are N. 429,299.69 and E.
+    2,403,056.48 thence still running along the centerline of Quaker
+    Lane and following the arc of a curve to the left whose radius is
+    2165.91 feet and whose chord and chord bearing are 152.44 feet and
+    N. 00° 02' 43" E. respectively for an arc distance of 152.47 feet
+    to a point of tangency having coordinates N. 429,452.13 and E.
+    2,403,056.60; thence N. 01° 58' 17" W., 141.63 feet to a point of
+    curvature having coordinates N. 429,593.68 and E. 2,403,051.73;
+    thence following the arc of a curve to the right whose radius is
+    4560.67 feet and whose chord and chord bearing are 224.93 feet and
+    N. 00° 33' 30" W. respectively for an arc distance of 224.95 feet
+    to a point on the existing Alexandria-Arlington Boundary, said
+    point having coordinates N. 429,818.60 and E. 2,403,049.54; thence
+    running along said existing boundary N. 14° 40' 33" W., 307.96 feet
+    to an existing boundary corner with coordinates N. 430,116.51 and
+    E. 2,402,971.52; thence running N. 09° 54' 36" W., 1447.14 feet to
+    another existing corner having coordinates N. 431,542.06 and E.
+    2,402,722.47; thence continuing with said existing
+    Alexandria-Arlington Boundary N. 01° 20' 15" E., 271.24 feet to a
+    corner with coordinates N. 431,813.23 and E. 402,728.80, said point
+    being in the vicinity of the Washington and Old Dominion Railroad
+    right of way; thence running S. 78° 26' 13" E. 1858.44 feet to an
+    existing boundary corner having coordinates N. 431,440.71 and E.
+    2,404,549.52; thence continuing with an extension of the last
+    mentioned course 5.73 feet (1864.17 feet in all) to a point whose
+    coordinates are N. 431,439.56 and E. 2,404,555.13; said point lying
+    in Four Mile Run; thence turning and running with the proposed
+    centerline of Four Mile Run N. 20° 30' 55" E., 62.07 feet to a
+    point of curvature whose coordinates are N. 431,497.69 and E.
+    2,404,576.88; thence following the arc of a curve to the right
+    whose radius is 420.44 feet and whose chord and chord bearing are
+    361.79 feet and N. 45° 59' 55" E. respectively, for an arc distance
+    of 374.00 feet to a point of compound curvature having coordinates
+    N. 431,749.02 and E. 2,404,837.12; thence running along the arc of
+    a curve to the right whose radius is 388.90 feet and whose chord
+    and chord bearing are 241.48 feet and N. 89° 34' 10" E.
+    respectively for an arc distance of 245.54 feet to a point of
+    tangency whose coordinates are N. 431,750.83 and E. 2,405,078.59
+    thence continuing along said proposed center and thence with the
+    existing centerline of Four Mile Run S. 72° 20' 35" E. 115.13 feet
+    to a point of curvature whose coordinates are N. 431,715.91 and E.
+    2,405,188.30; thence following the arc of a curve to the left whose
+    radius is 805.00 feet and whose chord and chord bearing are 218.56
+    feet and S. 80° 08' 42.5" E. respectively for an arc distance of
+    219.24 feet to a point of tangency whose coordinates are N.
+    431,678.50 and E. 2,405,403.64; thence running S. 87° 56' 50" E.,
+    10.38 feet to a point of curvature having coordinates N. 431,678.13
+    and E. 2,405,414.01; thence following the arc of a curve to the
+    left whose radius is 2864.79 feet and whose chord and chord bearing
+    are 626.25 feet and N. 85° 46' 40" E. respectively, for an arc
+    distance of 627.50 feet to a point of tangency whose coordinates
+    are N. 431,724.24 and E. 2,406,038.56; thence continuing along the
+    centerline of said Four Mile Run N. 79° 30' 10" E., 571.24 feet to
+    a point of curvature having coordinates N. 431,828.31 and E.
+    2,406,600.24; thence following the arc of a curve to the right
+    whose radius is 1909.88 feet and whose chord and chord bearing are
+    500.23 feet and N. 87° 01' 40" E., respectively for an arc distance
+    of 501.67 feet to a point of tangency; said point having
+    coordinates N. 431,854.25 and E. 2,407,099.80; thence running S.
+    85° 26' 50" E., 542.38 feet to a point of curvature with
+    coordinates N. 431,811.20 and E. 2,407,640.47; thence following the
+    arc of a curve to the left whose radius is 1432.41 feet and whose
+    chord and chord bearing are 585.03 feet and N. 82° 46' 10" E.
+    respectively, for an arc distance of 589.17 feet to a point of
+    tangency having coordinates N. 431,884.83 and E. 2,408,220.85;
+    thence running N. 70° 59' 10" E. 28.44 feet to a point of curvature
+    having coordinates of N. 431,894.10 and E. 2,408,247.74; thence
+    following the arc of a curve to the left whose radius is 1318.44
+    feet and whose chord and chord bearing are 482.64 feet and N. 60°
+    26' 22" E. respectively, for an arc distance of 485.38 feet to a
+    point of tangency having coordinates N. 432,132.21 and E.
+    2,408,667.56; thence running N. 49° 53' 34" E., 4.43 feet to a
+    point whose coordinates are N. 432,135.06 and E. 2,408,670.95;
+    thence running across Mount Vernon Avenue (Arlington Ridge Road in
+    Arlington) and still following the previously mentioned centerline
+    of Four Mile Run N. 71° 20' 53" E., 274.92 feet to a point of
+    curvature with coordinates N. 432,222.98 and E. 2,408,931.43;
+    thence running along the arc of a curve to the right whose radius
+    is 315.05 feet and whose chord and chord bearing are 289.48 feet
+    and S. 81° 18' 07" E. respectively for an arc distance of 300.28
+    feet to a point of tangency with coordinates of N. 432,179.20 and
+    E. 2,409,217.58; thence running S. 53° 57' 07" E., 314.44 feet to a
+    point whose coordinates are N. 431,994.16 and E. 2,409,471.81;
+    thence still running along said centerline S. 52° 58' 38" E.,
+    665.38 feet to a point with coordinates N. 431,593.51 and E.
+    2,410,003.05; thence S. 61° 35' 07" E., 504.49 feet to a point
+    having coordinates N. 431,353.45 and E. 2,410,446.76; thence S. 62°
+    23' 28" E. 1048.27 feet to a point with coordinates N. 430,867.65
+    and E. 2,411,375.67 and S. 67° 03' 11" E., 544.81 feet to a point
+    of curvature, said point having coordinates N. 430,655.24 and E.
+    2,411,877.37; thence running with the centerline of said Four Mile
+    Run, across Jefferson Davis Highway (Route #1), thru the culvert
+    and Potomac Railroad Yards, and following the arc of a curve to the
+    left whose radius is 446.47 feet and whose chord and chord bearing
+    are 485.07 feet and N. 80° 02' 34.5" E. respectively for an arc
+    distance of 512.80 feet to a point of tangency whose coordinates
+    are N. 430,739.11 and E. 2,412,355.13; thence N. 47° 08' 20" E.
+    400.92 feet to a point of curvature having coordinates N.
+    431,011.83 and E. 2,412,649.01; thence following the arc of a curve
+    to the right whose radius is 247.32 feet and whose chord and chord
+    bearing are 288.28 feet and N. 82° 47' 15.5" E. respectively for an
+    arc distance of 307.76 feet to a point of reversed curvature, said
+    point having coordinates N. 431,048.02 and E. 2,412,935.01; thence
+    following the arc of a curve to the left whose radius is 692.78
+    feet and whose chord and chord bearing are 339.43 feet and S. 75°
+    44' 39" E., respectively for an arc distance of 342.92 feet to a
+    point of tangency with coordinates N. 430,964.43 and E.
+    2,413,263.99; thence running S. 89° 55' 29" E., thru the culvert at
+    George Washington Memorial Parkway and to the Potomac River.
+
+
+
+
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