Excerpt from Reports of Cases in Prize: Argued and Determined in the Circuit and District Courts of the United States, for the Southern District of New York; 1861-'65 The compilation of the cases contained in this volume was undertaken at the request of the Department of State of the United States. The cases reported are all the prize suits decided in the circuit and district courts of the United States for the southern district of New York during the rebellion, with, perhaps, the excep tion of a very few cases in which decrees were entered without any opinion or memorandum of decision having been filed by the court. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.