711.589/7
The Chargé in Sweden (Meyer) to the Secretary of State
[Received December 15.]
Sir: With reference to the Department’s unnumbered instruction of September 10, 1923, regarding the extent of territorial jurisdiction claimed by Sweden, I have the honor to submit herewith enclosed, in conformity with the first part of the said instruction, a memorandum63 in which there is enumerated certain decrees regulations and a convention, all of which confirm the statement quoted in the instruction from the Columbia Law Review, i.e. “Norway and Sweden have always claimed 4 miles”.
I beg leave to point out as relating to this subject the last paragraph of the memorandum in which is quoted Article 7 of the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation between Sweden and Mexico, ratified the 28th of May, 1886, at Stockholm and the 1st of July, 1886, at Mexico, wherein is provided the mutual right of the signatory governments to enforce their customs regulations [Page 212] and patrol service against the introduction of contraband articles to a distance of approximately 10 miles from their shore line.63a
Additional information on this subject will be forwarded to the Department as it becomes available to the Legation.
I have [etc.]
- Not printed.↩
- Treaty signed July 29, 1885; see Sverges och Norges Traktater med Främmande Makter jämte andra dit hörande Handlingar Fjärde Delen 1878–1890, Utgifven af Carl Sandgren (Stockholm, 1905), p. 414 (text of treaty, p. 418); and British and Foreign State Papers, 1884–1885, vol. lxxvi, p. 197.↩