Joint resolution granting the consent of the Congress to an agreement between the State of Florida and the State of Georgia establishing a boundary between such States
PL 91-498 (S.J.Res.165), enacted 10/22/1970

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PUBLIC LAW 91-498-OCT. 22, 1970 
[84 STAT, 
SEC. 3. The Act entitled "An Act regulating the issuance of checks, 
drafts, and orders for the payment of money within the District of 
Columbia", approved July 1, 1922 (42 Stat. 820; D.C. Code, sec. 22-
1410), is amended— 
,(1) T
b
y striking out "or order" in each place it appears and 
inserting in lieu thereof "order, or other instrument"; 
(2) by striking out "shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punish-
able by imprisonment for not more than one year or fined not more 
than $1,000, or both." and inserting in lieu thereof "shall, if the 
amount of such check, draft, order, or other instrument is $100 
or more, be guilty of a felony and fined not more than $3,000 or 
imprisoned for not less than one year nor more than three years, 
or both; or if the amount of such check, draft, order, or other 
instrument is less than $100, be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined 
not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or 
both."; 
(3) by inserting, in the second sentence, after "notice in person, 
or writing, that such" the following: "check,". 
Approved October 22, 1970. 
Public Law 91-498 
October 22. 1970 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
[S.J. Res. 165] 
Granting the consent of the Congress to an agreement between the State of 
Florida and the State of Georgia establishing a boundary between such 
States. 
Whereas the Legislature of the State of Florida passed an Act amend-
ing section 6.09 Florida Statutes, relating to the boundary between 
the States of Florida and Georgia, which was approved by the Gov-
ernor of the State of Florida on April 25,1969; and 
Whereas the Legislature of the State of Georgia passed an act 
amending Georgia Code section 15-105, relating to the boundary 
between such States, which was approved by the Governor of 
Georgia on April 25, 1969; and 
Whereas such acts both provide in substance that such acts would be 
effective only if the Congress of the United States ratifies, confirms, 
adopts, or otherwise consents to the effect of such acts by November 1, 
1970; and 
Whereas such acts both provided in substance that the boundary 
between such States at the mouth of the Saint Marys River and 
adjacent thereto should be as follows: From a point 37 links north 
of Ellicotts Mound on the Saint Marys River; thence down said 
river to the Atlantic Ocean; thence along the middle of the presently 
existing Saint Marys entrance navigational channel to the point of 
intersection with a hypothetical line connecting the seawardmost 
points of the jetties now protecting such channel; thence along said 
line to a control point of latitude 30 degrees 42 minutes 45.6 seconds 
north, longitude 81 decrees 24 minutes 15.9 seconds west, thence due 
east to the seaward limit of Georgia and Florida as now or hereafter 
fixed by the Congress of the United States; such boundary to be 
extended on the same true 90-degree bearing so far as a need for 
further delimitation may arise; and 
Whereas such acts of the States of Florida and Georgia constitute an 
agreement between such States establishing a boundary line between 
them: Now, therefore, be it 
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PUBLIC LAW 91-499-OCT. 22, 1970 
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Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled^ That the consent of the 
Congress is hereby granted to such agreement and to the establishment 
of such boundary, and such acts of the States of Florida and Georgia 
are hereby approved. 
SEC. 2. The Secretary of Commerce is hereby authorized, empow-
ered, and instructed to survey and properly mark by suitable monu-
ments the seaward boundary between the State of Florida and State 
of Georgia, and so much of the interior boundary as is considered 
necessary by the two States, and the necessary appropriations for this 
work are hereby authorized. 
SEC. 3. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is expressly 
reserved. 
Approved October 22, 1970. 
Fla. • Ga. 
Boundary agree-
ment. 
Consent of 
Congress. 
Appropriation. 
Public Law 91-499 
A N A C T 
October 22, 1970 
To authorize the Commissioner of the District of Columbia to sell or exchange 
[H.R. I8O86] 
certain real property owned by the District in Prince William County, Virginia. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Commis-
sioner of the District of Columbia (hereinafter, "Commissioner" and 
"District") is authorized to convey to Prince William County, in the 
Commonwealth of Virginia, all right, title, and interest of the District 
in and to a portion, not in excess of thirty-seven acres, of certain real 
property owned by the District and located in that county, comprised 
of approximately three hundred fifty and four-tenths acres of land and 
more particularly described in a deed conveying such real property 
to the District and recorded on May 22, 1922, in liber 77, folio 55, in 
the clerk's office of the circuit court of Prince William County. Such 
conveyance to Prince William County shall be in consideration, among 
other considerations, of the issuance to the District by the county 
authorities of a permit or permits to establish and operate a sanitary 
landfill for the disposal of refuse in an area of the county determined 
by the District of Columbia to be suitable for such use. 
SEC 2. The Commissioner is further authorized to transfer to the 
Secretary of the Interior jurisdiction over all or any part of the bal-
ance of the property described in the first section, including such por-
tions of the property as may be described as "wetlands", by which term 
is meant those low-lying portions of the property in the nature of a 
marsh, swamp, bog, pothole, swale, glade, slash, overflow land of river 
flats, pool, slough, hole, as well as those areas necessary to protect the 
natural features of a contiguous wetland area. The area encompassed 
by the definition of wetlands is to be determined jointly by the Com-
missioner and the Secretary of the Interior. Such transfer to the Sec-
retary of the Interior may be in consideration of the payment by him 
to the District of such sum or sums as may be agreed upon, or m ex-
change for land under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Inte-
rior which may be put to some municipal use by the District, approxi-
mately equal in value or area, or both value aild area, to the land trans-
ferred by the District to the Secretary. 
Prince William 
County, Va. 
Conveyance. 
Jurisdiction, 
transfer. 
"Wetlands." 
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