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and other Foreign entries. The other Clauses of the provision of the Bill give the power of seizing and forfeiting any Foreign Ship coming within the description of a "Chinese Passenger Ship" when on the High Seas, if it be proved that she has cleared out from a Port within British jurisdiction in China, and has violated the provisions of the proposed Bill.
This assumption of jurisdiction and authority is not supported by any principle of International Law; it cannot be expected that any Foreign nation would acquiesce in it, unless it were founded on treaties previously made between Nations for the purpose of reciprocally checking the disruption of and an undue exercise of jurisdiction and authority. We cannot therefore recommend that these last mentioned provisions be allowed to remain in the Bill.
(Signed) I. M. Hamilton. (a) 22. Cockburn
Mr. Bristowe