Sec. 3. Repeal of retrocession and restoration of territory
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The Act of July 9, 1846 (9 Stat. 35, Chapter 35), entitled An Act to Retrocede the County of Alexandria, in the District of Columbia, to the State of Virginia , is repealed. The territory retroceded under the Act repealed by subsection (a), consisting of the area now comprising Arlington County, Virginia, and the independent City of Alexandria, Virginia, is restored to, and shall constitute part of, the District of Columbia. Effective on the date of enactment of this Act, the laws of the District of Columbia shall apply to the territory restored under subsection (b), and the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia shall cease to apply to such territory, except that— all rights, titles, and interests in property held by any person on such date shall remain undisturbed; and any civil or criminal proceeding pending in a court of the Commonwealth of Virginia on such date arising in such territory may be concluded in that court as if this Act had not been enacted.
This Act shall take effect on the first day of the first fiscal year beginning after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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Repeal of retrocession and restoration of territory
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