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[CITE: 33USC386]

 
                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
 
          CHAPTER 7--REGULATIONS FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF PIRACY
 
Sec. 386. Commissioning private vessels for seizure of piratical 
        vessels
        
    The President is authorized to instruct the commanders of the 
public-armed vessels of the United States, and to authorize the 
commanders of any other armed vessels sailing under the authority of any 
letters of marque and reprisal granted by Congress, or the commanders of 
any other suitable vessels, to subdue, seize, take, and, if on the high 
seas, to send into any port of the United States, any vessel or boat 
built, purchased, fitted out, or held as mentioned in section 385 of 
this title.

(R.S. Sec. 4298.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 4298 derived from act Aug. 5, 1861, ch. 48, Sec. 2, 12 
Stat. 315.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 385 of this title.
