AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE TERRITORIAL GOV- ERNMENT OF WASHINGTON. (Approved March 2, 1853.)

1878 This law creates a permanent form of government in which the District of Columbia is a municipal corporation governed by three civil commissioners.

The District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871 is an Act of Congress that repealed the individual charters of the cities of Washington and Georgetown

Organic Act of 1878: See Acts Relating to the Establishment of the District of Columbia and its Various Forms of Governmental Organization in Volume 1.

The organic act declares that “To the extent to which Congress shall approve of said estimates, Congress shall appropriate the amount of fifty per centum ...

.... There, in the District Organic Act of 1878, was a provision forbidding the commissioners to create contract obligations in excess of existing ...

In 1878, Congress enacted a revised version of the United States Code – our nation's official compilation of federal law – that included a new first section ...

to affect the authority of the United States to make any regula- tions respecting the Indians of any territory, their lands, property, or rights, by treaty, ...

Organic Act of 1878: See Acts Relating to the Establishment of the District of Columbia and its Various Forms of Governmental Organization in Volume 1. " ...