that it appears to me, that though some parts of Sir E. Hornby's judgment may be fairly open to doubt, it does not seem to me that there is any, often? Report of the Law Officers of the 15th January last, to discuss any further the question of the extent of British jurisdiction in the waters adjacent to Hong Kong.
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