Hongkong
Yo 135
12th October 1866.
Governor
Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell,
to
Right Honorable
Earl of Carnarvon
C. B.
Hong Kong Courts - Jurisdiction over Hing King Waters Attorney General's opinion as to opposed to that Governor and Edward Pollard, Q. C.
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I am inclined to think that the utmost Jurisdiction which the British Government can claim in the Strait such as Hing King and other Sea Passages between the Island of Hong Kong and Chinese territory is "usque ad medium filum aquæ" as in the case of Rivers flowing between conterminous States.
I see nothing in the Treaty of Nankin or in the "Convention of Peace" referred to in the opinion of Mr. Pollard, Q.C., from which it can be contended that an exclusive jurisdiction over the waters in question was thereby ceded.
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