[ ][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.
[ ][64] ] Report of District of Columbia—Virginia Boundary Commission, 74th Congress, 2nd Session, House Document 374.
[ ][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.
[ ][68] ] Unpublished Report dated March 27, 1947, from Lt.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.