§ 385. — Seizure and condemnation of vessels fitted out for piracy.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 33USC385]
TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
CHAPTER 7--REGULATIONS FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF PIRACY
Sec. 385. Seizure and condemnation of vessels fitted out for
piracy
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.
(R.S. Sec. 4297.)
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.
Codification
R.S. Sec. 4297 derived from act Aug. 5, 1861, ch. 48, Sec. 1, 12
Stat. 314.
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.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 386 of this title.
