76 COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



BriTvsi. Coin- TliG Orcliiiimoe, with reference to tlie close season there- 

 port, p. 19J. by established, enacts (sect. J) as loUowss: 



Uuiteil states Fo person shall kill or capture, or atteiupt to kill or capture, any 

 p 435° ^^ ^" • '' seal ivitldn the hviits of (hia Colony and its dependencies. 



The terms of the Ordinance are expressly confined to the 

 limits of the Colony, and at no time since the Falklund 

 Islands have belonged to Great Britain, wlietlier before or 

 after the making of the Ordinance in question, has any 

 attempt been made to interfere with the ca})ture of seals 



mi^sioners'^K™. outside the Ordinary territorial waters. This lact is noted 



port, p. 156. iu the Jiritish Commissioners' lieport. 



(B.) — Neiv Zealand. 



Tniteci states T]ie next instance cited in the United States Case is that 

 case,p.222. ^f Ncw Zealand. 



One Imperial and three Colonial Statutes of New Zea- 

 land are quoted. The area of jurisdiction conferred is lim- 

 ited by the Imperial Act of 1803. 



NEW ZEALAND LAW IS CONFINED TO " TERKITOEIES, 

 ISLANDS, AND COUNTRIES" LYINC- BETWEEN SPECIFIED 

 LIMITS. 



itid. Appen- ]3y section 2 of this Act the Colony of Kew Zealand is 



dix, vol. 1, p. 43b. T „ "^ , . . '' 



defined as comprising — 



all Terriiories, Islands, avd Countries lying hefween the 162ud Degree of 

 East Longitude and the 173rd Degree of West Longitude, and between 

 the 33rd and 53rd parallels of South Latitude. 



In the United States Case, however, this Act is described 

 as defining the — 



■ United States boundaries as coincident with jmrallels 33° and 53° south latitude, and 162^ 

 Case, p. 223. east and 173° west longitude— 



88 and the subsequent legislation of the Colony is then 

 discussed upon the assumption that these words con- 

 vey the true meaning of the Act. 

 ' United states The Act is printed in full in the United States Appen- 

 i,T«^'^^^'"^'^ dix, and it will be seen that this misinterpretation of its 

 meaning is the only foundation for tbe whole argument 

 which is based on New Zealand legislation. 

 United states The exprcssious cited from the New Zealand Acts, as, for 

 Sect%nfoVNew^°^^^°ce, "the whole Colony or only in particular parts 

 zeaiandAct,i878. thereof," " watcrs or places specified" (in Regulations), 

 zeaJaiKiAclissZ " witliiii the jurisdictioii of the Government of the Colony," 

 Section 6 of New are all limited by the definition of the area of the Colony 



ZealandAct.1887. . ., * 4- ^ -lo.'o ^ i i 



United States in the Act 01 180o, quoted above. 

 Tou' if 437™s«^' Special attention, liowever, is invited in the United 



United States Statcs Case to the reference to the Act of 1884, which, by 

 ^Tbid^," Appen- sectiou 5, eiupowcrs the Governor in Council to make, alter, 

 dix, vol. i,p. 439. and rcvoke Eegulations which shall have force and effect 

 only in waters or x)laces specified therein. 



