must in
future.
piracy, &c.
run
for
Now by matting Kowloon Peninsula part and portion of the botany of Hongkong, the Harbor becomes to all legal intent
a mare clausum.
and
common law has legitimate
exercise.
Tossing from the question of the Harbor we come to the jurisdiction over the Peninsula itself. At present there is none. Reying's expulsion of British
and Americans on Sir
John Davis' hint in (1844-5)
1032
as above stated, proves that the Chinese Government could and did exercise authority at that time, but they have
now ceased to do so.
Mr. May writes me as
"a fact I know that there is "no Government Official resident" at Tsim Sha Tsui and I never "knew an instance of the "Kowloon authorities exercising "authority there". Mr. Caldwell
tells me that on various occasions the Kowloon
Commandant has denied
his power to exercise jurisdiction, and only this morning
he