[ ][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.

[ ][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.

[ ][22] ] Acts of Assembly, 1789, Chapter XXXII, p. 19.

[ ][23] ] July 16, 1790.

[ ][24] ] Richardson, Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Vol. I, p. 100.

[ ][25] ] Richardson, Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Vol. I, p. 102.

[ ][26] ] Ernest A. Shuster, Jr., "Original Boundary Stones of the District of Columbia"; The National Geographic Magazine, Vol. XX, pp. 356-359 (April, 1909).

[ ][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.

[ ][28] ] Acts of Assembly, 1845-47, p. 50.

[ ][29] ] Quoted in "Remonstrance of the Mayor and Citizens of Alexandria...."