Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters
Chapter 7 — Regulations for the Suppression of Piracy
§ 382. Seizure of piratical vessels generally
Statutory text
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.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
(R.S. § 4294.)
Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 382
(R.S. § 4294.)
Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.
Source evidence
Code source credit
(R.S. § 4294.)
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 unresolved
Editorial Notes
Codification
R.S. § 4294 derived from acts Mar. 3, 1819, ch. 77, § 2, 3 Stat. 512; Jan. 30, 1823, ch. 7, 3 Stat. 721.
Credits
(R.S. § 4294.)