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"pclosure No.3 in Mr.Jameson's despatch No.5 of Sept:28th 192

MEMORANDUM FROM THE COMMISSIONER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS

TO THE PORTUGUESE CONSUL GENERAL AT CANTON.

According to Article II of the Treaty between

China and Portugal of 1887s laid down that so long as

the delimitation of the boundaries of Macao is not

concluded everything in respect to them shall continue

as at present without addition, diminution, or alteration

by either of the parties.

At the time this Treaty was signed, the

land boundaries of Macao remain unfixed; out as to the

waters which separate Macao from Chinese territory, the

recognised principles of International Law determined the

boundary to be the middle of the Main Channel.

Disputes have arisen from time to time,

chiefly because the bacao Government ignores the

accepted principles of International Law and endeavours to

extend its control over all the waters between Lappa and

Macao.

The exchange of notes between the Governor

General of the Liang-Kwang, Li, and the Portuguese

Consul-General Cinatii, was the result of an attempt on

the part of the Customs Commissioner to settle a dispute

over anchorage which had caused considerable friction

between the captains of the vessels of Macao and

Kwangtung respectively.

stated to be temporary.

This agreement was expressly

It was merely the demarcation

of an anchorage and did not, in any way, affect China's

jurisdiction over the waters off the shore of Lappa.

This is proved by China's consistent attitude subsequent

to the Note of 1890. The despatch addressed by the

Governor of Kwangtung to the Acting Portuguese Consul-

General dated the 7th of December in the 5th year of

the Republic (1916) makes this point quite clear.