In Congress, Wednesday, April 3, 1776 : Instructions to the commanders of private ships or vessels of war, which shall have commissions or letters of marque and reprisal, authorising them to make captures of British vessels and cargoes. ...

Replacement of Fishing Vessels Requisitioned by the Government : hearings before the United States House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, Seventy-Sixth Congress, third session, on Sept. 13, 1940.
Published: (1940)

Exemption from capture of private property at sea not contraband of war.
Published: (1904)

An essay on contraband : being a continuation of the Treatise of the relative rights and duties of belligerent and neutral nations, in maritime affairs /
by: Ward, R. Plumer (Robert Plumer), 1765-1846

Extracts from the Journals of Congress, relative to the capture and condemnation of prizes, and the fitting out privateers : together with the rules and regulations of the navy, and instructions to the commanders of private ships of war.

Cotton contraband /
by: Milner, Alfred Milner, Viscount, 1854-1925
Published: (1915)

The law of contraband of war : with the reported cases to the present time, and a selection of unreported cases from the papers of the late Right Hon. Sir George Lee ... : together with the Foreign Enlistment Act and the British and French proclamations respecting the observance of neutrality in the present war in North America /
by: Pratt, Frederic Thomas, 1799-1868
Published: (1861)

Requisitioning of Vessels : hearings before the United States House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, Seventy-Sixth Congress, first session, on Apr. 27, 1939.
Published: (1939)

Allowances on Requisitioned Fishing Vessels : hearings before the United States House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, Seventy-Eighth Congress, second session, on Apr. 29, 1944.
Published: (1944)

Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 13th instant, correspondence between this government and the Mexican minister in relation to the exportation of articles contraband of war for the use of the French Army in Mexico.
Published: (1863)

Just Compensation for Requisitioned Vessels : hearings before the United States House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, Seventy-Eighth Congress, first session, on June 10, 11, 1943.
Published: (1943)

Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 13th instant, a copy of the correspondence between the State Department and the representative of her Britannic Majesty's government in relation to the capture of British vessels sailing from one British port to another, having on board articles contraband of war intended for the use of the so-called Confederate States.
Published: (1863)

Placaet van de hoogh mog. heeren Staten Generael der Vereenigde Nederlanden, houdende verbodt tegen den toevoer van waren van contrabande na Vrankrijck en Spaigne.
Published: (1703)

Requisitioning of Ships in Time of National Emergency : hearings before the United States House Committee on Merchant Marine, Radio, and Fisheries, Seventy-Fourth Congress, first session, on Jan. 31, 1935.
Published: (1935)

Principles of the law of nations : with practical notes and supplementary essays on the law of blockade and on contraband of war /
by: Polson, Archer
Published: (1848)

In Congress, May 21, 1776 : Resolved, that all persons taken in arms on board any prize, be deemed prisoners ...

Drug detection in prison mailrooms.
Published: (2004)

Tratado juridico politico del contra-bando /
by: González de Salcedo, Pedro
Published: (1729)

Translation by Department of State of Russian Government regulations on maritime prizes; and instructions on method of stopping, examining, and detaining vessels, as well as on conducting away and surrender of vessels and cargoes detained.

In Congress March 23, 1776 : Whereas the petitions of these United Colonies to the King, for the redress of great and manifest grievances, have not only been rejected, but treated with scorn and contempt ... resolved, that the inhabitants of these colonies be permitted to fit out armed vessels to cruise on the enemies of these United Colonies. ...

In Congress March 23, 1776 : Whereas the petitions of these United Colonies to the King, for the redress of great and manifest grievances, have not only been rejected, but treated with scorn and contempt ... resolved, that the inhabitants of these colonies be permitted to fit our armed vessels to cruise on the enemies of these United Colonies. ...

The American experience of British prize law, 1776-1804 /
by: Foxley, Suzanne Amy
Published: (2025)

Bureau of Prisons : improved evaluations and increased coordination could improve cell phone detection : report to congressional committees.
Published: (2011)

Rules governing activities of diplomatic and consular officers in extension of American export trade in articles declared to be contraband or conditional contraband.
Published: (1914)

To Extend the Statute of Limitations in Regard to Certain Admiralty Cases : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 4 (Judiciary), Seventy-Eighth Congress, second session, on Nov. 20, 1944.
Published: (1944)

Review of the Federal Bureau of Prisons' contraband interdiction efforts.
Published: (2016)

An act to empower the Court of Admiralty to have jurisdiction in all cases of capture of the ships and other vessels of the inhabitants of Great-Britain, Ireland, the British West-Indies, Nova Scotia, and East and West Florida; to establish the trial by jury in the Court of Admiralty in cases of capture, and for the other purposes therein mentioned : Passed April 11, 1776.

(Circular.) Treasury Department, May 30, 1793 : Sir, It being the opinion of the executive, that there is no general law of the land, prohibiting the entry and sale of goods captured by foreign powers at war ... It becomes the duty of this department to make known to you, that the entry of vessels captured and brought into our ports by the ships of war and privateers of France, and of their cargoes, is to be received in the same manner ... as that of vessels and their cargoes which are not prizes.
Published: (1793)

American bravery displayed : in the capture of fourteen hundred vessels of war and commerce, since the declaration of war by the President /
by: Butler, James, 1755?-1842

Suspensions of Statute of Limitations. Prevention of Double Recovery on Certain Claims. Clarification of Certain Services Performed by Seamen. Requisition of Vessels Owned by Subsidiaries of American Corporations. Return of Certain Vessels to Private Ownership. Waiver of Recovery of Seamen's Insurance Under Certain Conditions. Board of Visitors to Merchant Marine Academy. Cash Awards to Personnel of Maritime Commission and War Shipping Administration : hearings before the United States House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, Seventy-Eighth Congress, first session, on Oct. 12, 1943.
Published: (1943)

An ordinance, for amending the ordinance, ascertaining what captures on water shall be lawful.

(Circular.) Treasury Department, August 22, 1793 : Sir, Though it was not expressly said, yet I presume it will have been understood ... that the liberty to enter vessels and their cargoes, brought in as prizes, by the armed vessels of France, was not ... to include vessels and cargoes taken ... by armed vessels originally fitted out in the ports of the United States ...
Published: (1793)

How to win the Nobel Prize in literature : a handbook for the would-be laureate /
by: Carter, David
Published: (2012)

In Congress, April 3, 1776 : Resolved, that every person intending to set forth and fit out a private ship or vessel of war, and applying for a commission or letters of marque and reprisal for that purpose, shall produce a writing, subscribed by him, containing the name, and tonnage or burthen of the ship or vessel ...

An ordinance, ascertaining what captures on water shall be lawful.

An ordinance, relative to the capture and condemnation of prizes.

Searching for contraband.
Published: (1940)