2014 US Code
Title 33 - Navigation and Navigable Waters (Sections 1 - 4009)
Chapter 7 - Regulations for the Suppression of Piracy (Sections 381 - 387)
Sec. 381 - Use of public vessels to suppress piracy
Publication Title | United States Code, 2012 Edition, Supplement 2, Title 33 - NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS |
Category | Bills and Statutes |
Collection | United States Code |
SuDoc Class Number | Y 1.2/5: |
Contained Within | Title 33 - NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS CHAPTER 7 - REGULATIONS FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF PIRACY Sec. 381 - Use of public vessels to suppress piracy |
Contains | section 381 |
Date | 2014 |
Laws In Effect As Of Date | January 5, 2015 |
Positive Law | No |
Disposition | standard |
Source Credit | R.S. §4293. |
Statutes at Large Reference | 3 Stat. 510, 721 |
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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.
(R.S. §4293.)
CODIFICATIONR.S. §4293 derived from acts Mar. 3, 1819, ch. 77, §1, 3 Stat. 510; Jan. 30, 1823, ch. 7, 3 Stat. 721.
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