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or bank, or of the foreshore of an island, or of any Crown lands lying below high-water mark, 

 in any river, inlet, estuary, or creek, or any lands lying below tidal waters within the limits 

 of the territorial jurisdiction of Queensland, for the collection, storage, cultivation, or propagation, 

 of pearl oyster shell or of beche-de-mer, or of sponges or other products of the sea. Such 

 leases shall be granted under and subject to such conditions and stipulations as the Governor 

 in Council may prescribe by Regulations. 



"The Queensland Territorial Boundary Act, by virtue of which the limits over which 

 the colony holds jurisdiction are accurately defined, may be appropriately reproduced at this 

 point. In addition to indicating the boundaries within which leases of island foreshores for 

 pearl-shell and other culture may be applied for and conceded, it may be advantageously 

 referred to in association with the question of international territorial limits discussed on 

 page 318." 



"Act 43 Victoria No. i., 1879. 



"An Act to provide that certain islands in Torres Strait, lying between the Continent of 

 Australia and the Island of New Guinea, shall become part of the colony, and subject to the 

 laws there in force. 



" Schedule. — Certain islands in Torres Strait and lying between the Continent of 

 Australia and Island of New Guinea, that is to say all islands included within a line 

 drawn from Sandy Cape, noirthwards, to the southernmost limits of the Great Barrier Reefs, 

 thence following the line of the Great Barrier Reefs to their north-eastern extremity near the 

 latitude of nine-and-a-half degrees south, thence in a north-westernly direction embracing East 

 Anchor and Bramble Cays, thence from Bramble Cays, in a line west by south (south 

 seventy-nine degrees west), true, embracing Warrior Reef, Saibai and Tuan Islands, thence 

 diverging in a north-westerly direction so as to embrace the group known as the Talbot 

 Islands, thence to, and embracing the Deliverance Islands and onwards in a west by south 

 direction (true) to the Meridian of one hundred and thirty-eight degrees of east longitude." 



