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[CITE: 33USC381]

 
                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
 
          CHAPTER 7--REGULATIONS FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF PIRACY
 
Sec. 381. Use of public vessels to suppress piracy

    The President is authorized to employ so many of the public armed 
vessels as in his judgment the service may require, with suitable 
instructions to the commanders thereof, in protecting the merchant 
vessels of the United States and their crews from piratical aggressions 
and depredations.

(R.S. Sec. 4293.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 4293 derived from acts Mar. 3, 1819, ch. 77, Sec. 1, 3 
Stat. 510; Jan. 30, 1823, ch. 7, 3 Stat. 721.
