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[CITE: 4USC71]

 
       TITLE 4--FLAG AND SEAL, SEAT OF GOVERNMENT, AND THE STATES
 
                    CHAPTER 3--SEAT OF THE GOVERNMENT
 
Sec. 71. Permanent seat of Government

    All that part of the territory of the United States included within 
the present limits of the District of Columbia shall be the permanent 
seat of government of the United States.

(July 30, 1947, ch. 389, 61 Stat. 643.)
