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[CITE: 10USC7656]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle C--Navy and Marine Corps
 
                     PART IV--GENERAL ADMINISTRATION
 
                           CHAPTER 655--PRIZE
 
Sec. 7656. Duties of United States attorney

    (a) The interests of the United States in a prize cause shall be 
represented by the United States attorney for the judicial district in 
which the prize cause is adjudicated. The United States attorney shall 
protect the interests of the United States and shall examine all fees, 
costs, and expenses sought to be charged against the prize fund.
    (b) In a judicial district where one or more prize causes are 
pending the United States attorney shall send to the Secretary of the 
Navy, at least once every three months, a statement of all such causes 
in the form and covering the particulars required by the Secretary.

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 475.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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            Revised section                      Source (U.S. Code)            
   Source (Statutes at Large)
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7656..................................  34 U.S.C. 1136.                      R.
S. 4619.
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    The Act of March 3, 1899, ch. 413, Sec. 13, 30 Stat. 1007, which 
repealed all laws authorizing the distribution of prize money to 
captors, rendered inoperative parts of R.S. 4619 relative to protection 
of captors' interest. These parts are omitted from 34 U.S.C. 1136 and 
from the revised section.
