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"of law
law and order in and about the harbour "of Hong Kong". It appears from Chinese cessions
ceded
of Territory that China not only has ceded
in law, but actually intended to or granted deed or grant, to Great Britain, all Jurisdiction incident to the Sovereignty and Dominion over the Territories ceded, and that the very pretension that China
regard.
exercise
to these
can advance,
utmost
which narrow waters, is a right to
Jurisdiction
over them concurrently, in common with Great Britain. This
however
can
Authorities
or
question
only arise in the event of Chinese
seizing vessels or persons upon the Water close to the shore of Hong Kong, and the captured vessel, or person, claiming immunity from seizure on
on the ground of the Jurisdiction being exclusively British.
Assuming however that the propositions contained in the preceding paragraphs and the conclusions deduced from them
are
erroneous or untenable, the question of
Jurisdiction
an
by
the
OU W
these
narrow waters bounded
here by British, and
thereby
Chinese, Territory, has to be viewed in
the Abstract, as if both territories had always been distinct and independent."
It is submitted that,
of view, the Jurisdiction over
even in this point
the Narrow Waters
is common, or concurrent, to both Powers, and
Case
of
that it cannot be affirmed to the Rivers, by taking the middle line as the boundary (whatever may be the breadth), as that is a boundary, not of Jurisdiction and Dominion, but of absolute property and Territory,