Note 62 — ARLINGTON COUNTY, VIRGINIA

Code of Virginia, 1950, Title 7.1, Sec. 7. This Commission dealt only with the boundary below Jones Point but chose low water mark as the line. The pertinent words of the agreement (ratified by Virginia in 1878) are: "The low water mark on the Potomac to which Virginia has a right in the soil, is to be measured … from low-water mark at one headland to low water at another, without following indentations, bays, creeks, inlets, or affluent rivers. Virginia is entitled not only to full dominion over the soil to low water mark on the south shore of the Potomac, but has a right to such use of the river...." Interpretation of this agreement took many years and it was 1930 before the line actually was surveyed and monumented.