[United States Senate Manual, 117th Congress]
[S. Doc. 117-1]
[Statistical Data]
[Page 753]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


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                                                              [1992]
 
                                                   THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
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                                                                                       Area in
              Territory                  Date of establishment of      Population,     square                           Formation
                                          territorial government       2020 census      miles
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District of Columbia.................  ............................         689,545          69  Established under Art. I, sec. 8, clause 17 of
                                                                                                  Constitution. Territory originally ceded by Maryland
                                                                                                  (legislative act of Dec. 23, 1788) and Virginia
                                                                                                  (legislative act of Dec. 3, 1789). Cessions accepted
                                                                                                  by Congress by act of July 16, 1790; lines and bounds
                                                                                                  established by proclamation of President Washington,
                                                                                                  Mar. 30, 1791. Virginia's cession retroceded by act of
                                                                                                  Congress July 9, 1846. The government of the District
                                                                                                  is administered by a Mayor and a 13-member Council,
                                                                                                  all of whom are elected by the citizens of the
                                                                                                  District of Columbia. All acts of the council are
                                                                                                  reviewable by Congress. (Dec. 24, 1973, Pub. L. 93-
                                                                                                  198.) Pursuant to the District of Columbia Delegate
                                                                                                  Act the District of Columbia now has a non-voting
                                                                                                  Delegate to the House of Representatives. (Sept. 22,
                                                                                                  1970, Pub. L. 91-405, Sec. Sec. 201-206, 84 Stat.
                                                                                                  848.)
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