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[CITE: 33USC450]

 
                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
 
   CHAPTER 9--PROTECTION OF NAVIGABLE WATERS AND OF HARBOR AND RIVER 
                         IMPROVEMENTS GENERALLY
 
SUBCHAPTER III--NEW YORK HARBOR, HARBOR OF HAMPTON ROADS, AND HARBOR OF 
                                BALTIMORE
 
Sec. 450. Liability of vessel

    Any boat or vessel used or employed in violating any provision of 
this subchapter, shall be liable to the pecuniary penalties imposed 
thereby, and may be proceeded against, summarily by way of libel in any 
district court of the United States having jurisdiction thereof.

(June 29, 1888, ch. 496, Sec. 4, 25 Stat. 210.)

                          Codification

    Section was enacted as part of section 4 of act June 29, 1888, which 
enacted sections 449 and 450 of this title.
