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followed the coast as well as to inland sections. As the
existing naps of Southern Persia were inaccurate it was
proioosed to shav/ these boundaries by fixing certain coordinates
(whether on land or sea) and joining them together. jilong
most of the coast they would fix a number of straight lines
just skirting the coast-line on the seaward side, with the
object of allowing for uncertainties or future changes in that
line and also of rendering mensuration easier. ,At Jask they
would carry the boundary out for about three miles. I t was
only at the northern end, as had been said, that they wi shg d
to carry it out for as far as twelve miles.
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u. The Company v/ished to know whether the submission
by them to the Persian Government of plans showing that they
had chosen for their concession areas extending beyond the
three mile limit? ax)proved as they would necessarily have
been by the Board of Directors, of whom two were representatives
of His Majesty 1 s Government, would commit His Majesty's
Government to a recognition of the Persian claim to a territorial
limit of twelve miles. In other words, would His Majesty 1 s
Government object to the inclusion in the concession''areas of
waters outside ^he three mile limit ?
Mr. Baggallay explained shortly the position as
regards territorial waters. It was true that His Majesty 1 s
Government, largely? he thought> for reasons connected with
fisheries, held to the three mile limit. Most other countries
accepted this view. Persia, however, claimed twelve miles,
though he thought that she regarded this belt as divided into
two fringes of six miles each and claimed rights falling short
of full sovereignty in the outer fringe. He would look up the
Persian law on the subject and let the Company know exactly
what it laid down. Other/countries besides Persia, for
instance/