Subject: Re: re recent dc & pr questions<br/>
Date: Nov 23, 2001 @ 06:26<br/>
Author: orc@orcoast.com (orc@...)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1354131538">--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., Anton Sherwood &lt;bronto@p...&gt; wrote:<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; m donner wrote:<br/>
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&gt; &gt; about the retrocession by the usa of rightbank dc to va preceding va<br/>
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&gt; &gt; secession<br/>
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&gt; 	[...]<br/>
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&gt; &gt; it happened in 1846<br/>
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&gt; thanks.  and do you know why?<br/>
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 </span></blockquote>i believe it was always a sort of back lot & never really got developed anything like the left bank did<br/>
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so eventually congress voted to give it back to virginia in order to end the pointless federal responsibility for it<br/>
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  provided its free white male citizens would agree<br/>
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    which they did by a vote of 763 to 222<br/>
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      per bus&ss<br/>
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m</div>