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In obedience to Your Lordships' Command, I have taken this case into consideration, and have the honour to Report,

That the fact of the anchorage of the "Wyoming" being nearer to the Chinese shore than to the British shore, raises a question of some difficulty and embarrassment to the application of the general rule of International Law.

Forming my opinion upon the Papers, as well as upon the statements which accompany them, I do not advise Her Majesty's Govt to insist, as a matter of strict right, that the place of anchorage adopted by the "Wyoming" is within those waters over which the jurisdiction of Her Majesty in its relation to Vessels of Foreign Independent States, extends.

In the event of a similar case occurring again; and to request that I would take these Papers into consideration, with reference to the rules of neutrality issued by H. Ms Govt, and furnish Your Lordship with my opinion as to the answer which should be returned to the Govt of Hong Kong.

On the 31st Jany. 1862,

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In obedience to Your Lordships' Command, I have taken this case into consideration, and have the honour to Report, That the fact of the anchorage of the "Wyoming" being nearer to the Chinese shore than to the British shore, raises a question of some difficulty and embarrassment to the application of the general rule of International Law. Forming my opinion upon the Papers, as well as upon the statements which accompany them, I do not advise Her Majesty's Govt to insist, as a matter of strict right, that the place of anchorage adopted by the "Wyoming" is within those waters over which the jurisdiction of Her Majesty in its relation to Vessels of Foreign Independent States, extends. In the event of a similar case occurring again; and to request that I would take these Papers into consideration, with reference to the rules of neutrality issued by H. Ms Govt, and furnish Your Lordship with my opinion as to the answer which should be returned to the Govt of Hong Kong. On the 31st Jany. 1862, Page 136 Your Lordship, ... Page 136 becomes redundant, keeping one is enough, so removed the other. The original text seems to be a scanned document with OCR errors. The corrected version is formatted in HTML as per the instructions. The text is reordered to make sense, and minor corrections are made to spelling and grammar. No comments or explanations are added to the text.
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Cout

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in the event of

a

similar case occurring

again; and to request that I would

take there Papers into consideration,

with reference to the rules of

neutrality issued by H. Mis Gov

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as

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of International Law

opinion upon

the tap which accompanies

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the Papers,

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Her

31th Jan". 1862, and furnish Your Location

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to the answer

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You? of Hong Kong.

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Majesty's Gou

not to insist,

as

a matter

of strict right, that the place of

anchorage adopted by the "Wyoming" is

In obedience to

Your

Lordships

Command

within those waters

I have taken this case into consideration, and have the honour to Report,

That the fact of the anchorage of the "Wyoming " being

nearer

to the Chinese thre

than

over

which the

jurisdiction of Her Majesty

in its

relation to Vessels of Foreign Independent

States, extends.

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You?

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