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 1208 86 Stat. 746 747. Bo U. S. C., Snpp. m, app. 1 823,827. INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [58 STAT. on an actual examination, and report to the court whether any part of it is in a condition requiring immediate sale for the interests of all parties, and notify the district attorney thereof; and if it be necessary to the examination or making of the inven- tory that the cargo be unladen, they shall apply to the court for an order to the marshal to unlade the same, and shall, from time to time, report to the court anything relating to the condition of the property, or its custody or disposal, which may require any action by the court, but the custody of the property shall be in the marshal only. They shall also seasonably return into court, sealed and secured from inspection, the documents and papers which shall come to their hands, duly scheduled and numbered, and the other preparatory evidence, and the evidence taken de bene esse, and their own inventory of the prize property; and if the captured vessel, or any of its cargo or stores, are such as in their judgment may be useful to the United States in war, they shall report the same to the Secretary of the Navy." Upon the receipt from your Government of the consent required by Section 3 of the Act, the Government of the United States will take appropriate measures in accordance with Section 7 of the Act to con- fer reciprocal privileges with respect to prizes upon your Government. Yours sincerely, W. J. GA.LLuAN. Enclosure-cited. J. G. WARD, Esquire, ForeignOffice, London. The British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the American Ambassador No. W 13225/279/49. 66 Stat. 746 . 50 U. 8. C., Supp. II app. 821 . A e,p.678. FOBEIGN OmrIC, S.W. 1 . 3rd November, 1942. YotU EXOELUNCT, At the request of the United States Government, consideration has been given by His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom to the position in regard to prizes taken by United States naval forces in foreign waters far removed from a United States port and taken into a British port. 2. I have the honour to inform you that His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom have taken note that Section 1 of Public Law 704- 77th Congress, which relates only to prizes captured during the present war provides that:- 'the district courts shall have original jurisdiction of all prizes "captured during the present war on the high seas if said capture "was made by authority of the United States or was adopted and "ratified by the President of the United States and the prize was

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