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[CITE: 33USC382]

 
                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
 
          CHAPTER 7--REGULATIONS FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF PIRACY
 
Sec. 382. Seizure of piratical vessels generally

    The President is authorized to instruct the commanders of the public 
armed vessels of the United States to subdue, seize, take, and send into 
any port of the United States, any armed vessel or boat, or any vessel 
or boat, the crew whereof shall be armed, and which shall have attempted 
or committed any piratical aggression, search, restraint, depredation, 
or seizure, upon any vessel of the United States, or of the citizens 
thereof, or upon any other vessel; and also to retake any vessel of the 
United States, or its citizens, which may have been unlawfully captured 
upon the high seas.

(R.S. Sec. 4294.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 4294 derived from acts Mar. 3, 1819, ch. 77, Sec. 2, 3 
Stat. 512; Jan. 30, 1823, ch. 7, 3 Stat. 721.
