This territory
to note that it was the opinion of the Department of State in 1909 that the U.. did not exercise ex-territorial Jurisdiction in Kwantung leased territory. in Southern Manchuria came into Japan's possession after the Russian-Japanese War. The view of the Department of State was that the leased territory was to all intents and purposes a part of Japanese territory and that the consul's exequatur was issued by Japan by virtue of the Treaty of the U.S. and Japan and gave no authority for the exercise of ex-territorial powers. This le interesting because it shows that during the entire period of the lease, first to Russia and then to Japan, sole jurisdiction had been exercised by the lessee country and this jurisdiction had been acquiesced in by the United States. At the same time, it is worth pointing out that the Department of State, having learned that Japan had no legislation fixing the con- ditions of a valid marriage in the territory, gave instruc- tions that the marriages of American citizens contracted in Kwantung leased territory should be performed according to the rites observed in other parts of China.
Huckworth, Digest of International
Law, Vol. II,
P. 548.