Territorial Property

The land Merchants’ Mut. Ins. Co. v. Allen, 121 U. S. and water over which the state has jurisdic- 67, 7 Sup. Ct. 821, 30 L. Ed. 858; but on the between Ireland and Great Britain, and between Scotland and Ireland, is nncontested; 1 Phill. Int. L. § 189; and Chesapeake Bay and Delaware Bay are not a part of the high sea; 1 Whart. Int. L. § 28; Narragansett Bay is claimed, by usage, to be within the jurisdiction of Rhode Island; American S. B. Co. y. Chase, 16 Wall. (U. S.) 522, 21 L. Ed. 369; Chase v. Steamboat Co., 9 R. 1. 419, 11 Am. Rep. 274; and Conception Bay in Newfoundland, though more than 20 miles wide at its mouth and nearly 50 miles long, is British territory; 2 App. Cas. 394. It is probable that the Delaware (1 Op. Atty. Gen. 15) and Chesapeake (4 Moore, Int. Arbitr.) bays are the property of the United States. England claims complete jurisdiction over the bays of Chaleur, Fortune, and Conception, and some other bays of Newfoundland, as closed seas; Snow, Int. Law 27. The Zuyder Zee and Hudson’s Bay are probably parts of the territory of the nations which surround them; while the bays of Fundy and Chaleur are public; 3 Whart. Int. L. 28, 304, 305 a. The claim of Russia to sovereignty over the Pacific Ocean north of the 51st degree of latitude was considered by the United States as against the rights of other nations; 1 Kent 29. The territorial waters of the United Kingdom, under the act of Aug. 16, 1878, are such as are deemed so by international law, and for the purpose of any offence declared by the act to be within the jurisdiction of the admiralty, it is one marine league from low-water mark; 1 Moore Int. L. 714. See 1895 Rep. Society for Reform and Codif. of the Laws, 17th meeting; 5 Eng. Rul. Cas. 946; Pilot; Jurisdiction; Mare Clausum.