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that no part of the foreshore of Mirs Bay, north or east of the Starling Inlet Boundary, can be considered as within our territory, though we should have the right of navigating, when the tide is up, up to high-water-mark.
(Signed) H.E. Pollock,
Acting Attorney General.
27-7-99.
Your Excellency,
Submitted. I was talking with Mr. Bruce Shepherd this morning on this point before I saw the opinion of the Attorney General, and I understood Mr. Shepherd to say that he regarded the term "waters" as including the shore to high water-mark. This is a very important matter and as opinion seems divided, I would suggest that the Secretary of State be asked for a decision.
(Signed) J.H. Stewart Lockhart,
Colonial Secretary.
28-7-99.
Honourable Colonial Secretary.
I cannot go behind the advice of the Attorney General in this matter;
If I buy a cup of tea I don't carry away the cup.
The waters of Mirs Bay are the tea. If Mr. Bruce Shepherd's opinion be sound, if a Chinese pursued another, stabbing him as he ran, and finally killed him on the shore at low water, he would not be triable in China, but here. Our rights seem to me to