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 PROCLAMATIONS-AUG. 12, 17, 1944 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 terri- torial waters for the use of the United States shall be accorded, upon proclamation by the President of the United States, like privileges 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 Australia, a cobelligerent, has con- sented 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 Australia and to the taking or appropriation of such prizes within the territorial waters of Australia for the use of the United States: NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, Presi- dent 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 Australia shall be accorded 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 2 th (lay of August in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-four, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-ninth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: E. R. STETTINIUS, Jr. Acting Secretary of State. FIRE PREVENTION WEEK, 1944 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Reciprocal privileges accorded to Australia. 56 Stat. 746. 50 U. S. C., Supp. II, app. J§ 821-828. Ante, p. 678. A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the widening operations of our valiant armies and navies make it imperative that we exert our utmost effort to provide an increasingly abundant flow of goods and materials to every battle front; and WHEREAS the prevention of waste is as essential to this end as is the production of goods; and August 17, 1944 tNo. 26181 1147 .58 STAT.]

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