Notes on 10 U.S.C. § 7668 : US Code - Notes

Search Notes on 10 U.S.C. § 7668 : US Code - Notes

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 480.)
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7668 34 U.S.C. 1151. R.S. 4630; R.S. 4641.
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R.S. 4630 provided that in some circumstances the captors were to
receive the net proceeds of prize property and in other
circumstances they were to receive half and the United States was
to receive the other half. The Act of March 3, 1899, ch. 413, Sec.
13, 30 Stat. 1007, repealed "all provisions of law authorizing the
distribution among captors of the whole or any portion of the
proceeds of vessels, or any property hereafter captured, condemned
as prize". Thus the only part of R.S. 4630 that remains in effect,
as is indicated in 34 U.S.C. 1151, is that part which provides that
proceeds shall be decreed to the United States. The section is so
worded. R.S. 4641 stated how proceeds decreed to captors should be
divided among them. These provisions were eliminated by the Act of
March 3, 1899, supra. All that remains of R.S. 4641, as is
indicated in 34 U.S.C. 1151, is the provision that proceeds decreed
to the United States shall be paid into the Treasury, and the
section is worded accordingly.