wonderful explanations thanks i had no idea what had
happened in DC, that is, that it even extended beyond
the potomac in the past.

VC
--- "L. A. Nadybal" <lnadybal@...> wrote:

> DC turned back most of what is on the west side of
> the Potomac to VA
> because little had been developed there, and
> Congress, in a shortage
> of funds time frame, decided there was no reason to
> have more land as
> the seat of the federal government than it really
> needed.
>
> Re: Arlington vis-a-vis Alexandria - Alexandria is
> not in Arlington
> county; they border one another. The postal address
> for Aleandria
> extends beyond it's corporate city limits,
> especially in the area
> south, outside of the beltway.
>
> To Kevin: D. C. does exist as a formal entity.
> Congress made it so
> as the exercizer of U.S. sovereignty. It is a
> corporation named "The
> District of Columbia". The city of Washington
> doesn't exist anymore
> as a corporate entity - only as a postal address.
> There is no such
> thing as the mayor of Washington D.C., it's the
> "Mayor of the District
> of Columbia". The former incorporated city of
> Georgetown plus the
> incorporated City of Washington and the
> unincorporated county areas in
> the NW and NE were all merged into the incorporated
> City of Washington
> D.C. Congress later removed the incorporation from
> the City of
> Washington in favor of the D. C. corporation.
>
> If you need the years during which each event
> occurred, I can look
> them up for you.
>
> Regards,
>
> Len Nadybal
> Office of the CFO of the District of Columbia (not
> of Washington)
>
>

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