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NAVAL PRIZE ACT 1864 - SECT 38

38. Where a ship of a foreign nation passing the seas laden with naval or
victualling stores intended to be carried to a port of any enemy of Her
Majesty is taken and brought into a port of the United Kingdom, and the
purchase for the service of Her Majesty of the stores on board the ship
appears to [the Secretary of State] expedient without the condemnation thereof
in a prize court, in that case [the Secretary of State] may purchase, on the
account or for the service of Her Majesty, all or any of the stores on board
the ship; and the Commissioners of Customs may permit the stores purchased to
be entered and landed within any port.

Prizes taken by ships other than ships of war to be droits of Admiralty.

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