See below.

----- Original Message -----
From: "acroorca2002" <orc@...>
To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2003 12:47 PM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Four Color Maps

> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G. McManus"
> <mcmanus71496@m...> wrote:
> > Belatedly, I have now reviewed that particular part of Van Zandt's
> BUS&SS.
> > While I can agree that Pacific coastal states can extend their
> territorial
> > waters no more than 3 nautical miles into the Pacific, I would
> argue that the
> > waters around Point Roberts are not at all the Pacific Ocean,
>
> i would not argue
> but i am pretty sure the sla actually says
> 3nm from coasts
> & doesnt necessarily specify oceanic waters nor distinguish internal
> ones from them
> & i believe the supremes have basically signed off on this law too
> as early as 1954

You are correct that is does say coasts, but coastlines (from which the three
miles of state waters are measured) have been interpreted by the Supremes as
composed of the shores of oceans and the closing lines of internal waters.

Lowell G. McManus
Leesville, Louisiana, USA