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 Trrun xLvm.——COMMERCE AND NAV1GAT10N.—Ch. 8. 829 CHAPTER EIGHT. REGULATIONS FOB. THB SUPPRESSION OF PIRAOY. Sec. 5H_ 4293. Public vemels to supprem piracy. 4298. What vxels may be authorized to 4%. Seizure of piratical vessels. seize pirates. 4295. Merchanbvesels may resist pirates. 4%. Duty of omcers of customs and mar- 4296. Condemnation of piratical vessels. shale. 4297. Seizureof vessels fitted out for piracy. _ Sm?. 4293. The President is authorized to employ so many of the pub- Public vessels no bc armed vessels as in his judgment the service may require, with suit- *1PP’°” Pl'¤9X·* able instructions to the commanders thereof, in protecting the merchant- ., 3 M‘“·· 181*% ‘—`· vessels of the United States and their crews from piratical aggressions '7g5‘ 3igég12‘ 8Dd Cl€pI'€d2l.Il.0DS. 7, v_ 3, if 721. i 1 Sec. 4294. The President is authorized to instruct the commanders of _ Seizure of piratthe (public armed vessels of the United States to subdue, seize, take., and [€f*l_Y°j’€l§; __" sen into any port of the United States, any armed vessel or boat, or 3 Mar., 1819, e. any vessel or boat the, crew whereof shall be armed, and which shall 77,8- 2n*-3,P-512 have attempted or committed any piratical aggression, search, restraint, 7 30 'g‘“'··};?3· “· depredation, or seizure, upon any vessel of the United States, or of the .LYl)**. citizens thereof or upon any other vessel; and also to retake any vessel Th ° M*“'!*‘““° of the United States, or its citizens., which may have been unlawfully »1;j,(,mj>,,j1t,,`};;l"]i§ captured upon the high seas. Wn., 1. )- Sec. 4:295. The commander and crew of any merchant-vessel of the Merchant-vessels United States, owned wholly, or in part, by a citizen thereof, may oppose fPj’·Y ’”°S‘*t l{“Ff”· and defend against any aggression, search, restraint, depredation, or 3 Mar., 1819, c. seizure, which shall be attempted upon such vessel, or u n any other 77,¤-3.v-3,1>·513- vessel so owned, by the commander or crew of any armedtessel what- 7 39 *g““·· };E3· °· soever, not being a public armed vessel of some nation-in amitv with ***; -. the United States, and may subdue and capture the same; and may U-S·¢‘·B*igM¤- also retake any vessel so owned which may have been captured by the j,'i]f,Adh‘*l·2H°"'·· commander or crew of any such armed vessel, and send the same into ' any port of the United States. Sec. 4:296. lVhenever any vessel, which shall have been built, pur- Condemnation chased, fitted out in whole or in part, or held for the purpose of being §Q;¤**l,p_;f;.;f United States, the same shall be adjudged and) condemned to their use, --,1,H \i_ ._ and that of the captors after due process and trial in any court having mom elf $j;"";°i admiralty jurisdiction, and which shall be holden for the district into The i>a]m,·,·a;’ yi which such captured vessel shall be brought; and the same court shall Wn., 1; U. S. r·. thereupon order a sale and distribution thereof accordingly, and at its gag )l°l°k Adh°l· discretion. O" " 2m' Src. 4297. Any vessel built, purchased, fitted out in whole or in part, Seizurecivessels or held for the purpose of being employed in the commission of any fitted °“* fc" P’· piratical aggression, search, restraint, depredation, or seizure, or in the rL*** commission of any other act of piracy, as defined by the law of nations, 5 Aug-, 1861, c. shali be liable to be captured and brought into an port of the United “»“·1·"·12¤P·314· States if found upon the high seas, or to be seizedv 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 u n or from such vessel or not; and any such vessel may be adjudged anrixdondemned, if captured by a vessel authorized as hereinafter mentioned, 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. Sec. 4:298. The President is authorized to instruct the commanders of What vessels the public armed vessels of the United States, and to authorize the m¤Yl>°¤*!*b;>c¤¤°d commanders of any other armed vessels sailing under the authority of i°