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[CITE: 10USC7660]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle C--Navy and Marine Corps
 
                     PART IV--GENERAL ADMINISTRATION
 
                           CHAPTER 655--PRIZE
 
Sec. 7660. Duties of prize commissioners

    One or more of the prize commissioners shall--
        (1) receive from the prize master the documents and papers of 
    the captured vessel and the inventory thereof;
        (2) take the affidavit of the prize master required by section 
    7658 of this title;
        (3) take promptly, in the manner prescribed by section 7661 of 
    this title, the testimony of the witnesses sent in;
        (4) take, at the request of the United States attorney, on 
    interrogatories prescribed by the court, the depositions de bene 
    esse of the prize crew and others;
        (5) examine and inventory the prize property;
        (6) apply to the court for an order to the marshal to unload the 
    cargo, if this is necessary to that examination and inventory;
        (7) report to the court, and notify the United States attorney, 
    whether any of the prize property requires immediate sale in the 
    interest of all parties;
        (8) report to the court, from time to time, any matter relating 
    to the condition, custody, or disposal of the prize property 
    requiring action by the court;
        (9) return to the court sealed and secured from inspection--
            (A) the documents and papers received, duly scheduled and 
        numbered;
            (B) the preparatory evidence;
            (C) the evidence taken de bene esse; and
            (D) their inventory of the prize property; and

        (10) report to the Secretary of the Navy, if, in their judgment, 
    any of the prize property is useful to the United States in the 
    prosecution of war.

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 477.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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            Revised section                      Source (U.S. Code)            
   Source (Statutes at Large)
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7660..................................  34 U.S.C. 1138 (less applicability   R.
S. 4622 (less applicability to
                                         to procedure for interrogating       p
rocedure for interrogating
                                         witnesses).                          w
itnesses).
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    The words ``but the custody of the property shall be in the marshal 
only'' are omitted as surplusage, since this fact is made clear in 
Sec. 7662 of this title.
