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Title: A brief history of Alexandria County, Virginia;
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Alexandria Co., Va. Board of supervisors. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Falls Church, Va., The Newell printing co
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favor of retrocession thecounty should be retroceded, and right and jurisdiction forever relin- ALEXANDRIA COUNTY 11 quished in full and absolute. An election was held and a majorityof the votes cast were for retrocession. Without any further actionby Congress the State of Virginia passed an act declaring that thecounty of Alexandria was re-annexed. Since 1846 the State ofVirginia has exercised full jurisdiction and control over said county. Legality of Retrocession At the time of the passage of the act of Congress, ceding thecounty of Alexandria to Virginia, some of the ablest lawyers inCongress condemned the act and declared it to be in violation ofthe Constitution of the United States. Among those who declared that the act of retrocession wasunconstitutional was John Quincy Adams, who was one of theablest constitutional lawyers of his day. He had been President ofthe United States and was a member of Congress from Massa-chusetts at the time the act was passed. To the wayfaring man
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The Home of Hon. John B. Henderson, Jr. 12 ALEXANDRIA COUNTY it would seem that if the county of Alexandria could be ceded backto Virginia, then the county of Washington could be ceded back toMaryland and the District of Columbia and the Capital and seat ofgovernment abolished by an act of Congress. In 1875 Mr. Robert A. Phillips, a large property owner in thecounty of Alexandria, brought suit to determine the validity ofthe act of retrocession. He alleged in his suit that an assessmenthad been made upon his property by officers of the State of Virginia,that he had paid his taxes under protest to prevent the sale of hisproperty by the State, and that the county of Alexandria was notwithin the State of Virginia but within the District of Columbia.He alleged that the act of Congress ceding back the county ofAlexandria was illegal and void because in violation of the Con-

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