CO129-302 - Public Offices - 1900 — Page 362

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Bring down the paper giving the Law Officers opinion as to the foreshore & sheath to me

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The Attorney General informe Mr Cox that if a map is published, it should Show the extreme limito

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British or British claims. It should

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therefore show the foreshore of the bays a being British

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the Foreign Office of the Law Micers opinion"

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Subject & stating

as above, and

I should ask for Lord Salisbrug's opinion

as to whether any

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question

with

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Ber: Jans.

China is likely to arise if a may is publichen shrving the foreshore as British, adding

the Attorney Genual

that in the opinion of

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any map issued should embody all that Great Britain can legiüimately

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to proceed alone

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Sir:-

OFFICE

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FOREIGN OFFICE,

January 11th, 1900.

I am directed by the Marquess of Salisbury to

transmit to you a Map of Hongkong and the neighbour-

ing territories marked I.D. No.1393, which has been

received from the Director of Military Intelligence

with an inquiry whether His Lordship sees any ob-

jection to its being placed on sale to the public.

It will be observed that the land boundary of

the colony, as recently extended, does not appear

on the map.

As the delimitation of the boundary has now been

completed I am to suggest that, if the Secretary

of State for the Colonies sees no objection, the

Director of Military Intelligence should be supplied

with the particulars necessary to enable him to

mark the line on the map, and should be informed

that when thus completed there is no objection to

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Colonial / Office. 272

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