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[CITE: 22USC462]

 
               TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
 
         CHAPTER 9--FOREIGN WARS, WAR MATERIALS, AND NEUTRALITY
 
        SUBCHAPTER III--PREVENTION OF OFFENSES AGAINST NEUTRALITY
 
Sec. 462. Compelling foreign vessels to depart

    It shall be lawful for the President to employ such part of the land 
or naval forces of the United States, or of the militia thereof, as he 
may deem necessary to compel any foreign vessel to depart from the 
United States or any of its possessions in all cases in which, by the 
law of nations or the treaties of the United States, it ought not to 
remain, and to detain or prevent any foreign vessel from so departing in 
all cases in which, by the law of nations or the treaties of the United 
States, it is not entitled to depart.

(Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 321, Sec. 15, 35 Stat. 1091; June 15, 1917, ch. 30, 
title V, Sec. 10, 40 Stat. 223.)

                          Codification

    Section was formerly classified to section 27 of title 18 prior to 
the general revision and enactment of Title 18, Crimes and Criminal 
Procedure, by act June 25, 1948, ch. 645, Sec. 1, 62 Stat. 683.
    Act June 15, 1917, inserted provisions relating to detention of 
vessels.


                            Prior Provisions

    Section was derived from R.S. Sec. 5288 (act Apr. 20, 1818, ch. 88, 
Sec. 9, 3 Stat. 449), which was repealed by section 341 of act Mar. 4, 
1909.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 408a, 465 of this title.
