PROCLAMATIONS-NOV. 11, 28 , 1943 November 25, 1943, as a day for expressing our thanks to God for His blessings. November having been set aside as "Food Fights for Freedom" month, it is fitting that Thanksgiving Day be made the culmination of the observance of the month by a high resolve on the part of all to produce and save food and to "share and play square" with food. May we on Thanksgiving Day and on every day express our grati- tude and zealously devote ourselves to our duties as individuals and as a nation. May each of us dedicate his utmost efforts to speeding the victory which will bring new opportunities for peace and brother- hood among men. 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 11th day of November, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-three, [SEAL] and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-eighth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State CAPTURE OF PRIZES BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA November28, 1943 [No. 2601] A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the act of August 18, 1942, 56 Stat. 746, contains in 1150^us.C ., 88up. part the following provisions: "Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the L'nited States of America in Congress assembled, 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 brought into the territorial waters of a cobelligerent or was taken or appropri- ated for the use of the United States on the high seas or in such territorial waters, including jurisdiction of all proceedings for the condemnation of such property taken as prize.
"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 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 761 57 STAT.]
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