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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 461. Enforcement by courts; employment of land or naval forces
The district courts shall take cognizance of all complaints, by
whomsoever instituted, in cases of captures made within the waters
of the United States, or within a marine league of the coasts or
shores thereof. In every case in which a vessel is fitted out and
armed, or attempted to be fitted out and armed, or in which the
force of any vessel of war, cruiser, or other armed vessel is
increased or augmented, or in which any military expedition or
enterprise is begun or set on foot, contrary to the provisions and
prohibitions of this subchapter and sections 958 to 962 of title
18; and in every case of the capture of a vessel within the
jurisdiction or protection of the United States as before defined;
and in every case in which any process issuing out of any court of
the United States is disobeyed or resisted by any person having the
custody of any vessel of war, cruiser, or other armed vessel of any
foreign prince or state, or of any colony, district, or people, or
of any subjects or citizens of any foreign prince or state, or of
any colony, district, or people, it shall be lawful for the
President or such other person as he shall have empowered for that
purpose, to employ such part of the land or naval forces of the
United States, or of the militia thereof, for the purpose of taking
possession of and detaining any such vessel, with her prizes, if
any, in order to enforce the execution of the prohibitions and
penalties of this subchapter and sections 958 to 962 of title 18,
and the restoring of such prizes in the cases in which restoration
shall be adjudged; and also for the purpose of preventing the
carrying on of any such expedition or enterprise from the territory
or jurisdiction of the United States against the territory or
dominion of any foreign prince or state, or of any colony,
district, or people with whom the United States are at peace.
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