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    33 USC CHAPTER 7 - REGULATIONS FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF
           PIRACY                                          01/03/2007

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           CHAPTER 7 - REGULATIONS FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF PIRACY       

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    Sec.                                                     
    381.        Use of public vessels to suppress piracy.             
    382.        Seizure of piratical vessels generally.               
    383.        Resistance of pirates by merchant vessels.            
    384.        Condemnation of piratical vessels.                    
    385.        Seizure and condemnation of vessels fitted out for
                 piracy.                                              
    386.        Commissioning private vessels for seizure of piratical
                 vessels.                                             
    387.        Duties of officers of customs and marshals as to
                 seizure.                                             

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    33 USC Sec. 381                                             01/03/2007

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    Sec. 381. Use of public vessels to suppress piracy

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      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.

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    (R.S. Sec. 4293.)

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                               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.

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    33 USC Sec. 382                                             01/03/2007

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    Sec. 382. Seizure of piratical vessels generally

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      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.

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    (R.S. Sec. 4294.)

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                               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.

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    33 USC Sec. 383                                             01/03/2007

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    Sec. 383. Resistance of pirates by merchant vessels

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      The commander and crew of any merchant vessel of the United
    States, owned wholly, or in part, by a citizen thereof, may oppose
    and defend against any aggression, search, restraint, depredation,
    or seizure, which shall be attempted upon such vessel, or upon any
    other vessel so owned, by the commander or crew of any armed vessel
    whatsoever, not being a public armed vessel of some nation in amity
    with the United States, and may subdue and capture the same; and
    may also retake any vessel so owned which may have been captured by
    the commander or crew of any such armed vessel, and send the same
    into any port of the United States.

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    (R.S. Sec. 4295.)

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                               CODIFICATION                           
      R.S. Sec. 4295 derived from acts Mar. 3, 1819, ch. 77, Sec. 3, 3
    Stat. 513; Jan. 30, 1823, ch. 7, 3 Stat. 721.

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    33 USC Sec. 384                                             01/03/2007

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    Sec. 384. Condemnation of piratical vessels

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      Whenever any vessel, which shall have been built, purchased,
    fitted out in whole or in part, or held for the purpose of being
    employed in the commission of any piratical aggression, search,
    restraint, depredation, or seizure, or in the commission of any
    other act of piracy as defined by the law of nations, or from which
    any piratical aggression, search, restraint, depredation, or
    seizure shall have been first attempted or made, is captured and
    brought into or captured in any port of the United States, the same
    shall be adjudged and condemned to their use, and that of the
    captors after due process and trial in any court having admiralty
    jurisdiction, and which shall be holden for the district into which
    such captured vessel shall be brought; and the same court shall
    thereupon order a sale and distribution thereof accordingly, and at
    its discretion.

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    (R.S. Sec. 4296.)

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                               CODIFICATION                           
      R.S. Sec. 4296 derived from acts Mar. 3, 1819, ch. 77, Sec. 4, 3
    Stat. 513; Jan. 30, 1823, ch. 7, 3 Stat. 721; Aug. 5, 1861, ch. 48,
    Sec. 1, 12 Stat. 314.

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    33 USC Sec. 385                                             01/03/2007

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    Sec. 385. Seizure and condemnation of vessels fitted out for piracy

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      Any vessel built, purchased, fitted out in whole or in part, or
    held for the purpose of being employed in the commission of any
    piratical aggression, search, restraint, depredation, or seizure,
    or in the commission of any other act of piracy, as defined by the
    law of nations, shall be liable to be captured and brought into any
    port of the United States if found upon the high seas, or to be
    seized if found in any port or place within the United States,
    whether the same shall have actually sailed upon any piratical
    expedition or not, and whether any act of piracy shall have been
    committed or attempted upon or from such vessel or not; and any
    such vessel may be adjudged and condemned, if captured by a vessel
    authorized as mentioned in section 386 of this title to the use of
    the United States, and to that of the captors, and if seized by a
    collector, surveyor, or marshal, then to the use of the United
    States.

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    (R.S. Sec. 4297.)

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                            REFERENCES IN TEXT                        
      Surveyor, referred to in text, is probably an obsolete office in
    view of act July 5, 1932, ch. 430, title I, Sec. 1, 47 Stat. 584,
    which abolished the offices of surveyors of customs, except at the
    Port of New York. Ports of delivery, except those which were made
    ports of entry, were abolished and the use of the term "port of
    delivery" was discontinued under the President's plan of
    reorganization of the customs service communicated to Congress by
    message dated Mar. 3, 1913.

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                               CODIFICATION                           
      R.S. Sec. 4297 derived from act Aug. 5, 1861, ch. 48, Sec. 1, 12
    Stat. 314.


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                           TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS                       
      All offices of collector of customs, comptroller of customs,
    surveyor of customs, and appraiser of merchandise in Bureau of
    Customs of Department of the Treasury to which appointments were
    required to be made by President with advice and consent of Senate
    ordered abolished with such offices to be terminated not later than
    December 31, 1966, by Reorg. Plan No. 1 of 1965, eff. May 25, 1965,
    30 F.R. 7035, 79 Stat. 1317, set out in the Appendix to Title 5,
    Government Organization and Employees. All functions of offices
    eliminated were already vested in Secretary of the Treasury by
    Reorg. Plan No. 26 of 1950, eff. July 31, 1950, 15 F.R. 4935, 64
    Stat. 1280, set out in the Appendix to Title 5.

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    33 USC Sec. 386                                             01/03/2007

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    Sec. 386. Commissioning private vessels for seizure of piratical
      vessels

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      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.

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    (R.S. Sec. 4298.)

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

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    33 USC Sec. 387                                             01/03/2007

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    Sec. 387. Duties of officers of customs and marshals as to seizure

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      The collectors of the several ports of entry, the surveyors of
    the several ports of delivery, and the marshals of the several
    judicial districts within the United States, shall seize any vessel
    or boat built, purchased, fitted out, or held as mentioned in
    section 385 of this title, which may be found within their
    respective ports or districts, and to cause the same to be
    proceeded against and disposed of as provided by that section.

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    (R.S. Sec. 4299.)

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                            REFERENCES IN TEXT                        
      Surveyors of the several ports of delivery, referred to in text,
    are probably obsolete offices in view of act July 5, 1932, ch. 430,
    title I, Sec. 1, 47 Stat. 584, which abolished the offices of
    surveyors of customs, except at the Port of New York. Ports of
    delivery, except those which were made ports of entry, were
    abolished and the use of the term "port of delivery" was
    discontinued under the President's plan of reorganization of the
    customs service communicated to Congress by message dated Mar. 3,
    1913.

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                               CODIFICATION                           
      R.S. Sec. 4299 derived from act Aug. 5, 1861, ch. 48, Sec. 3, 12
    Stat. 315.


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                           TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS                       
      All offices of collector of customs, comptroller of customs,
    surveyor of customs, and appraiser of merchandise in Bureau of
    Customs of Department of the Treasury to which appointments were
    required to be made by President with advice and consent of Senate
    ordered abolished, with such offices to be terminated not later
    than December 31, 1966, by Reorg. Plan No. 1, of 1965, eff. May 25,
    1965, 30 F.R. 7035, 79 Stat. 1317, set out in the Appendix to Title
    5, Government Organization and Employees. All functions of offices
    eliminated were already vested in Secretary of the Treasury by
    Reorg. Plan No. 26 of 1950, eff. July 31, 1950, 15 F.R. 4935, 64
    Stat. 1280, set out in the Appendix to Title 5.

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