ceeding shall abate by reason of any change in the courts,
but shall proceed within the State or United States courts
according to the laws thereof, respectively. The appro-
priate State courts shall be the successors of the courts
of the District of Columbia as to all cases arising within
the limits embraced within the jurisdiction of such courts,
respectively, with full power to proceed with such cases,
and award mesne or final process therein, and all files,
records, indictments, and proceedings relating to any such
writ, action, indictment, cause, or proceeding shall be
transferred to such appropriate State courts and shall be
proceeded with therein in due course of law.
(b) All civil causes of action and all criminal offenses
which shall have arisen or been committed prior to the
admission of the State, but as to which no writ, action,
indictment, or proceeding shall be pending at the date of
such admission, shall be subject to prosecution in the ap-
propriate State courts or in the United States District
Court for the District of Columbia in like manner, to the
same extent, and with like right of appellate review, as
if such State had been created and such State courts had
been established prior to the accrual of such causes of ac-
tion or the commission of such offenses. The admission
of the State shall effect no change in the substantive or
criminal law governing causes of action and criminal of-
fenses which shall have arisen or been committed, and any
such criminal offenses as shall have been committed
against the laws of the District of Columbia shall be tried
and punished by the appropriate courts of the State, and
any such criminal offenses as shall have been committed
against the laws of the United States shall be tried and
punished in the United States District Court for the Dis-
trict of Columbia.
SEC. 11. APPEALS.
Parties shall have the same rights of appeal from and
appellate review of final decisions of the United States
District Court for the District of Columbia or the District
of Columbia Court of Appeals in any case finally decided
prior to the admission of the State of New Columbia into
the Union, whether or not an appeal therefrom shall have
been perfected prior to such admission. The United States
Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and
the Supreme Court of the United States shall have the
same jurisdiction in such cases as by law provided prior
to the admission of the State into the Union. Any mandate
issued subsequent to the admission of the State shall be
to the United States District Court for the District of Co-
lumbia or a court of the State, as appropriate. Parties
shall have the same rights of appeal from and appellate
review of all orders, judgments, and decrees of the United
States District Court for the District of Columbia and of
the highest court of the State of New Columbia, as succes-
sor to the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, in any
case pending at the time of admission of the State into
the Union, and the United States Court of Appeals for
the District of Columbia Circuit and the Supreme Court
of the United States shall have the same jurisdiction
therein, as by law provided in any case arising subsequent
to the admission of the State into the Union.
SEC. 12. JUDICIAL AND CRIMINAL PROVISIONS.
Effective upon the admission of New Columbia into
the Union—
(1) Section 41 of title 28, United States Code
is amended in the second column by inserting ‘‘,
New Columbia’’ after ‘‘District of Columbia’’.
(2) The first paragraph of section 88 of title
28, United States Code, is amended to read as fol-
lows:
‘‘The District of Columbia and the State of New Co-
lumbia comprise one judicial district.’’.
SEC. 13. MILITARY LANDS.
(a) Subject to subsection (b) and notwithstanding the
admission of the State of New Columbia into the Union,
authority is reserved in the United States for the exercise
by the Congress of the United States of the power of ex-
clusive legislation, as provided by article I, section 8,
clause 17, of the Constitution of the United States, in all
cases whatsoever over such tracts or parcels of land lo-
cated within the State of New Columbia that, immediately
prior to the admission of the State, are controlled or
owned by the United States and held for defense or Coast
Guard purposes.
(b)(1) The State of New Columbia shall always have
the right to serve civil or criminal process within such
tracts or parcels of land in suits or prosecutions for or
on account of rights acquired, obligations incurred, or
crimes committed within the State but outside of such
tracts or parcels of land.
(2) The reservation of authority in the United States
for the exercise by the Congress of the United States of
the power of exclusive legislation over such lands shall not
operate to prevent such lands from being a part of the
State of New Columbia, or to prevent the State from exer-
cising over or upon such lands, concurrently with the Unit-
ed States, any jurisdiction which it would have in the ab-
sence of such reservation of authority and which is consist-
ent with the laws hereafter enacted by the Congress pursu-
ant to such reservation of authority.
(3) The power of exclusive legislation shall vest and
remain in the United States only so long as the particular
tract or parcel of land involved is controlled or owned by
the United States and used for defense or Coast Guard
purposes, except that the United States shall continue to
have sole and exclusive jurisdiction over such military in-
stallations as have been or may be determined to be criti-
cal areas as delineated by the President of the United
States or the Secretary of Defense.
SEC. 14. UNITED STATES NATIONALITY.
No provision of this Act shall operate to confer Unit-
ed States nationality, to terminate nationality lawfully ac-
quired, or to restore nationality terminated or lost under
any law of the United States or under any treaty to which
the United States is or was a party.
SEC. 15. RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER LAWS.
No law or regulation which is in force on the effective
date of this Act shall be deemed amended or repealed by
this Act except to the extent specifically provided herein
or to the extent that such law or regulation is inconsistent
with this Act.
SEC. 16. NATIONAL CAPITAL SERVICE AREA.
(a) The National Capital Service Area referred to in
section 4 is more particularly described as follows:
Beginning at the point on the present Virginia-
District of Columbia boundary due west of the
northernmost point of Theodore Roosevelt Island
and running due east of the eastern shore of the Po-
tomac River;
thence generally south along the shore at the
mean high water mark to the northwest corner of
the Kennedy Center;
thence east along the north side of the Kennedy
Center to a point where it reaches the E Street Ex-
pressway;
thence east on the expressway to E Street
Northwest and thence east on E Street Northwest to
Eighteenth Street Northwest;
thence south on Eighteenth Street Northwest to
Constitution Avenue Northwest;
thence east on Constitution Avenue to Seven-
teenth Street Northwest;
thence north on Seventeenth Street Northwest
to Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest;
thence east on Pennsylvania Avenue to Jackson
Place Northwest;
thence north on Jackson Place to H Street
Northwest;
thence east on H Street Northwest to Madison
Place Northwest;
thence south on Madison Place Northwest to
Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest;
thence east on Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest
to Fifteenth Street Northwest;
thence south on Fifteenth Street Northwest to
Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest;
thence southeast on Pennsylvania Avenue
Northwest to John Marshall Place Northwest;
thence north on John Marshall Place Northwest
to C Street Northwest;
thence east on C Street Northwest to Third
Street Northwest;
thence north on Third Street Northwest to D
Street Northwest;
thence east on D Street Northwest to Second
Street Northwest;
thence south on Second Street Northwest to the
intersection of Constitution Avenue Northwest and
Louisiana Avenue Northwest;
thence northeast on Louisiana Avenue North-
west to North Capitol Street;
thence north on North Capitol Street to Massa-
chusetts Avenue Northwest;
thence southeast on Massachusetts Avenue
Northwest so as to encompass Union Square;
thence following Union Square to F Street
Northeast;
thence east on F Street Northeast to Second
Street Northeast;
thence south on Second Street Northeast to D
Street Northeast;
thence west on D Street Northeast to First
Street Northeast;
thence south on First Street Northeast to
Maryland Avenue Northeast;
thence generally north and east on Maryland
Avenue to Second Street Northeast;
thence south on Second Street Northeast to C
Street Southeast;
thence west on C Street Southeast to New Jer-
sey Avenue Southeast;
thence south on New Jersey Avenue Southeast
to D Street Southeast;
thence west on D Street Southeast to Washing-
ton Avenue Southwest;
thence southeast on Washington Avenue South-
west to E Street Southeast;
thence west on E Street Southeast to the inter-
section of Washington Avenue Southwest and South
Capitol Street;
thence northwest on Washington Avenue South-
west to Second Street Southwest;
thence south on Second Street Southwest to
Virginia Avenue Southwest;
thence generally west on Virginia Avenue to
Third Street Southwest;
thence north on Third Street Southwest to C
Street Southwest;
thence west on C Street Southwest to Sixth
Street Southwest;
thence north on Sixth Street Southwest to Inde-
pendence Avenue;
thence west on Independence Avenue to Twelfth
Street Southwest;
thence south on Twelfth Street Southwest to D
Street Southwest;
thence west on D Street Southwest to Four-
teenth Street Southwest;
thence south on Fourteenth Street Southwest to
the middle of the Washington Channel;
thence generally south and east along the
midchannel of the Washington Channel to a point
due west of the northern boundary line of Fort Les-
ley McNair;
thence due east to the side of the Washington
Channel;
thence following generally south and east along
the side of the Washington Channel at the mean
high water mark, to the point of confluence with the
Anacostia River, and along the northern shore at the
mean high water mark to the northernmost point of
the Eleventh Street Bridge;
thence generally south and east along the
northern side of the Eleventh Street Bridge to the
eastern shore of the Anacostia River;
thence generally south and west along such
shore at the mean high water mark to the point of
confluence of the Anacostia and Potomac Rivers;
thence generally south along the eastern shore
at the mean high water mark of the Potomac River
to the point where it meets the present southeastern
boundary line of the District of Columbia;
thence south and west along such southeastern
boundary line to the point where it meets the
present Virginia-District of Columbia boundary; and
thence generally north and west up the Poto-
mac River along the Virginia-District of Columbia
boundary to the point of beginning.
(b) Where the area in subsection (a) is bounded by
any street, such street, and any sidewalk thereof, shall be
included within such area.
(c)(1) Any Federal real property affronting or abut-
ting, as of the date of the enactment of this Act, the area
described in subsection (a) shall be deemed to be within
such area.
(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1) Federal real
property affronting or abutting such area described in
subsection (a) shall—
(A) be deemed to include, but not limited to,
Fort Lesley McNair, the Washington Navy Yard,
the Anacostia Naval Annex, the United States Naval
Station, Bolling Air Force Base, and the Naval Re-
search Laboratory; and
(B) not be construed to include any area situ-
ated outside of the District of Columbia boundary as
it existed immediately prior to the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, nor be construed to include any
portion of the Anacostia Park situated east of the
northern side of the Eleventh Street Bridge, or any
portion of the Rock Creek Park.
SEC. 17. STATEHOOD TRANSITION COMMISSION.
(a) There is established a Statehood Transition Com-
mission.
(b) The Commission shall be composed of thirteen
members appointed as follows:
(1) three shall be appointed by the President;