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 PROCLAMATIONS-APR. 1, 24, 1943 "SEC. 3 . The jurisdiction of prizes brought into the territorial waters of a cobelligerent shall not be exercised under authority of this Act, nor shall prizes be taken or appropriated within such territorial waters for the use of the United States, unless the government having jurisdiction over such territorial waters con- sents to the exercise of such jurisdiction or to such taking or appropriation. "SEC. 7. A cobelligerent of the United States which consents to the exercise of the jurisdiction herein conferred with respect to prizes of the United States brought into its territorial waters and to the taking or appropriation of such prizes within its ter- ritorial waters for the use of the United States shall be accorded, upon proclamation by the President of the United States, like priv- ileges with respect to prizes captured under authority of such cobelligerent and brought into the territorial waters of the United States or taken or appropriated in the territorial waters of the United States for the use of such cobelligerent. Reciprocal recognition and full faith and credit shall be given to the juris- diction acquired by courts of a cobelligerent hereunder and to all proceedings had or judgments rendered in exercise of such jurisdiction." WHEREAS the Government of New Zealand, a cobelligerent, has consented to the exercise of the jurisdiction conferred by the said Act with respect to prizes of the United States brought into the territorial waters of the Dominion of New Zealand and its dependencies and to the taking or appropriation of such prizes within the territorial waters of the Dominion of New Zealand and its dependencies for the use of the United States: NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the said Act of August 18, 1942, do proclaim that the Government of the Dominion of New Zealand shall be ac- corded like privileges with respect to prizes captured under authority of the said Government and brought into the territorial waters of the United States or taken or appropriated in the territorial waters of the United States for the use of the said Government. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this 1"' day of April in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-three, and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-seventh. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. NATIONAL MARITIME DAY, 1943 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the sailing of the steamship The Savannah on May 22, 1819, from Savannah, Georgia, on the first successful transoceanic voyage under steam propulsion made a significant contribution to the advancement of transportation by sea; and Reciprocal privi- leges granted to New Zealand. 56 Stat. 746. 50 U. S. C., Supp. II, app. §§821-828. 57 STAT.] 737 April 24, 1943 [No. 2583]

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