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Instead, Congress passed the Organic Act of 1871, which revoked the individual charters of the cities of Washington and Georgetown and combined them with Washington County to create a unified territorial government for the entire District of Columbia. [7]
The Organic Act of 1801 officially organized the District of Columbia and placed the entire federal district under the ... Congress passed the Organic Act of 1871, ...
The 41st United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C. from March 4, 1869, to March 4, 1871, during the first two years of Ulysses S. Grant's presidency .
An Act to continue in force an act passed at the last session of Congress, entitled “An act to regulate processes in the Courts of the United States.” Sess. 2, ch. 13 1 Stat. 123 (chapter 13) 14: May 26, 1790: Government of the Territory south-west of the river Ohio.
Northwest Territory of the United States, 1787 This 1856 map shows slave states (gray), free states (pink), U.S. territories (green), and Kansas in center (white).. In United States law, an organic act is an act of the United States Congress that establishes an administrative agency or local government, [1] for example, the laws that established territory of the United States and specified how ...
The District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871 created a single new municipal corporation [13] governing the entire federal territory, called the District of Columbia, thus dissolving the three major political subdivisions of the district (Port of Georgetown, the City of Washington, and Washington County) and their governments.
The District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871 repealed the individual charters of the cities of Washington and Georgetown and established a new territorial government for the whole District of Columbia. Though Congress repealed the territorial government in 1874, the legislation was the first to create a single government for the federal ...
District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871, an act by the United States Congress which created a single municipal government for the entire District of Columbia Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title District of Columbia Organic Act .