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 1214 Consent of Canada to U. S. jurisdiction. INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [58 STAT. (g) The Under-Secretary of State for External Affairs reports that the Secretary of State of the United States has given as- surance that, upon receipt of the consent of the Government of Canada, as required by Sec. 3 of the Act above referred to, the said United States will take appropriate measures in accord- ance with Sec. 7 of the said Act to confer reciprocal privileges with respect to prizes upon the Government of Canada. (h) The Chief of Naval Staff and the Deputy Minister for Naval Services report that it would tend to the best interests of the Naval Service if such a reciprocal arrangement were entered into. 2. Therefore, His Excellency the Governor General in Council, on the recommendation of the Minister of National Defence for Naval Services, concurred in by the Secretary of State for External Affairs and under and by virtue of the War Measures Act, Chapter 206 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1927, and notwithstanding the provisions of any other statute, order or regulation, is pleased to consent to and doth hereby consent to and authorize the exercise of original jurisdic- tion by the District Courts of the United States of America of all prizes captured during the present war on the high seas if said cap- ture was made by authority of the said United States or was adopted and ratified by the President of the said United States and the prize was brought into the territorial waters of Canada or was taken or appropriated for the use of the said United States on the high seas or in such territorial waters including the jurisdiction of all pro- ceedings for the condemnation of such property taken as prize. A. D. P. HEENEr, Clerk of the Privy Ooucil.

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