<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C." id="mwPQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Washington, D.C.">Washington, D.C.</a> is incorporated as a city after <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress" id="mwPg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="United States Congress">Congress</a> abolishes the Board of Commissioners, the District's founding government. The "City of Washington" is given a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayor–council_government" id="mwPw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Mayor–council government">mayor-council</a> form of government.<sup about="#mwt23" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-2"}}' id="cite_ref-2" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./May_3#cite_note-2" id="mwQA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 2;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwQQ">[2]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-2"><cite about="#mwt20" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFCostanzo2018">Costanzo, Adam (2018). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Rd5PDwAAQBAJ" id="mwBjg" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBjk">George Washington's Washington: Visions for the National Capital in the Early American Republic</i></a>. <a href="./Athens,_Georgia" id="mwBjo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Athens, Georgia">Athens, Georgia</a>: <a class="mw-redirect" href="./The_University_of_Georgia_Press" id="mwBjs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="The University of Georgia Press">The University of Georgia Press</a>. pp.<span id="mwBjw" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>76–77, 200 fn. 28. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBj0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBj4" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/9780820352855" id="mwBj8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/9780820352855"><bdi id="mwBkA">9780820352855</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt20" class="Z3988" id="mwBkE" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=George+Washington%27s+Washington%3A+Visions+for+the+National+Capital+in+the+Early+American+Republic&amp;rft.place=Athens%2C+Georgia&amp;rft.pages=76-77%2C+200+fn.+28&amp;rft.pub=The+University+of+Georgia+Press&amp;rft.date=2018&amp;rft.isbn=9780820352855&amp;rft.aulast=Costanzo&amp;rft.aufirst=Adam&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DRd5PDwAAQBAJ&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMay+3"></span></span>