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Show -52- (b) This compact was held to have no limiting effect upon the power of Congress over commerce, since both States had thereafter adopted the Constitution. South Carolina v. Georgia (1876) 93 U. S. 4. III COMPACTS WITH THE CONSENT OP CONGRESS SINCE 1789* (l) Virginia and Kentucky Compact of 1789* (a) The assent of Congress is found in the Act of February 14, 1791 51 admitting Kentucky into the Union, (b) The Virginia Act of December 18, 1789, sec. 7, 52 by which Kentucky was severed, provides "Third, that all private rights and interests of land within the said district, derived from the laws of Virginia prior to such separation, shall remain valid and secure under the laws of the proposed state, and shall be determined by the laws now existing in this state. Section 11 of the same act53 provided that the jurisdiction of Kentucky ever the Ohio River should be concurrent only with those States who might possess the opposite shore of the river. Both provisions of this Act were accepted by Kentucky and embodied in its Constitution. 54 (c) The compact created as a result of the seventh section was con- sidered in Breen v. Biddle (1823j U* S.) 8 i.heat. I; Hawkins v. Burney's Lessee (1831, U. S«) 5 Pet. 1+575 Kentucky Union Co. v. Kentucky (1911) 219 u. s. nlio, 31 sup* ct. 171. ?The first attempt, so far as we are aware, to enumerate the Congress- ional consents to compacts formed under the Constitution was made by Judge A. A. Bruce in (1918) 2 Minn. L. Rev. 500. This, in turn, became the foun- dation for a list of such Acts of Congress in the report of the Committee on Inter-State Compacts made on Hay 1, 1921 to the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws at its Thirty-first Annual Meeting. Mr. Charles Warren in his Stafford Little Lectures (The Supreme Court and the Sovereign States )(192I4) has drawn upon the Bruce List, adding a few of the later consents. The lack of a scientific index to Federal legislation does not male© it surprising that all these lists are incomplete for the periods which -they cover. None of them, moreover, (with negligible exceptions in the Wai-ren list) refers to the very important State legislation concerning these compacts. The story is obviously incomplete without a recital of such legislation, lie have, therefore, attempted a comprehensive list of the compacts to which Congress consented and not confined ourselves to corrections and additions of prior lists. Undoubtedly we have not escaped inaccuracies and omissions. 53.1 Stat. at L. 189- 5213 Hening, Va. Stat. at L. 17, 19- 53See Note 39, supra. 5l]-Ky. Const. Art. VIII, sec. 7, 1 Litt. Ky. Laws, 32. |