the Act of 3d tinued in force, as to all crimes made March, 1819, punishable by the same, and heretofore continued, as committed, in all respects, as fully as if tofore commit- the duration of the said section bad been without limitation. to crimes here ted. Art. 257. Persons com or vessel, or or found. Persons en SECT. 3. That if any person shall, upon the high seas, or in any open roadstead, or in any haven, basin, or bay, or in mitting robbe- any river where the sea ebbs and flows, ry on any ship commit the crime of robbery, in or upon ship's compa- any ship or vessel, or upon any of the ny, &c. on the ship's company of any ship or vessel,or the high seas, in a lading thereof, such person shall be adroadstead, &c. to suffer death. judged to be a pirate; and, being thereof Conviction in convicted, before the circuit court of the Circuit Court United States for the district into which where brought he shall be brought or in which he shall be found, shall suffer death. And if any gaged in any person engaged in any piratical cruize or piratical en- enterprise, or being of the crew or ship's terprise, &c. company of any piratical ship or vessel, shall land from such ship or vessel, and, bery on shore, on shore, shall commit robbery, such person shall be adjudged a pirate; and on conviction thereof, before the circuit court of the United States for the disCircuit Court trict into which he shall be brought, or where brought in which he shall be found, shall suffer death: Provided, That nothing in this section contained shall be construed to States not to deprive any particular state of its jurisbe deprived of diction over such offences when commitjurisdiction, and offenders ted within the body of a county, or aunot to be tried thorize the courts of the United States and com. mitting rob declared pi rates, and to suffer death. Conviction in or found. Proviso ; to try any such offenders, after conviction after acquitor acquittance, for the same offence, in ta), &c. a state court. Persons land ing on a fo and seizing negroes or mulattoes, not to make them SECT. 4. That if any citizen of the Art. 258. United States, being of the crew or ship's company of any foreign ship or vessel engaged in the slave trade, or any per- reign shore, son whatever, being of the crew or ship's company of any ship or vessel, owned in ne the whole or part, or navigated for, or in held to service, behalf of, any citizen or citizens of the &c. with intent United States, shall land from any such slaves, or deship or vessel, and, on any foreign shore, coying, forciseize any negro or mulatto, not held to bly bringing or service or labour by the laws of either of the carrying, &c. them on board, states or territories of the United States, &c. declared with intent to make such negro or mulat- pirates, and to to a slave, or shall decoy, or forcibly suffer death. bring or carry, or shall receive, such negro or mulatto on board any such ship or vessel, with intent as aforesaid, such citizen or person shall be adjudged a pirate; and, on conviction thereof, before the circuit court of the United States for the where brought district wherein he may be brought or or found. found, shall suffer death. Conviction in Circuit Court Persons forci SECT. 5 That if any citizen of the Art. 259. United States, being of the crew or ship's company of any foreign ship or bly confining, vessel engaged in the slave trade, or detaining, or any person whatever, being of the crew aiding to conor ship's company of any ship or vessel, fine or detain, owned wholly or in part, or navigated for, on board vesor in behalf of, any citizen or citizens of sels, &c. or of negroes, &c. or, on the high livering over to any other ship, or landing, &c. negroes, &c. with intent, &c. declared suffer death. fering to sell the United States, shall forcibly confine on board, &c. or detain, or aid and abet in forcibly conseas or tide fining or detaining, on board such ship or water, trans- vessel, any negro or mulatto not held to ferring or de- service by the laws of either of the states or territories of the United States, with intent to make such negro or mu latto a slave, or shall, on board any such ship or vessel, offer or attempt to sell, as a slave, any negro, or mulatto, not held to pirates, and to service as aforesaid, or shall, on the high seas, or any where on tide water, transfer or deliver over, to any other ship or vessel, any negro or mulatto, not held to service as aforesaid, with intent to make such negro or mulatto a slave, or shall land, or deliver on shore, from on board any such ship or vessel, any such negro or mulatto, with intent to make sale of, or having previously sold, such negro or mulatto as a slave, such citizen or person shall be adConviction in judged a pirate; and, on conviction thereCircuit Court of, before the circuit court of the United where brought States for the district wherein he shall be brought or found, shall suffer death. or found. [Approved, 15 May, 1820. An ACT in addition to "An act to continue in force 'An act to protect the commerce of the United States, and punish the crime of Piracy,' and, also, to make further provision for punishing the crime of piracy." [Acts of the 2d session 17th Congress, page 5.] Art. 260. Be it enacted, &c. That the first, seThe 1st, 2nd, cond, third, and fourth, sections of an act, entitled "An act to protect the commerce 3rd, and 4th of the United States, and punish the sections of Act of 3d March, crime of piracy," passed on the third 1819, made day of March, in the year of our Lord perpetual. one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, be, and the same are hereby, continued in force, in all respects, as fully as if the said sections had been enacted without limitation, in the said act, or in the act to which this is an addition, and which was passed on the fifteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty. [Approved, 30 January, 1823. 13 146 the armed ves sels of the Uni An ACT in addition to the acts prohibiting the [Vol. 6, page 435.] Art. 261. SECT. 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the The President President of the United States be, and may employ he is hereby, authorized, whenever he shall deem it expedient, to cause any of ted States on the armed vessels of the United States the coasts of to be employed to cruise on any of the coasts of the United States, or Territories thereof, or of the coast of Africa, or elsewhere, where he may judge attempts Acts of Conmay be made to carry on the slave trade gress prohibiting the Slave by citizens or residents of the United States, in contravention of the Acts of the United States and of Trade. portation of into port, &c. may Congress prohibiting the same, and to Vessels unlaw-instruct and direct the commanders of fully engaged all armed vessels of the United States, in the trans- to seize, take, and bring into any port of Negroes, &c. the United States, all ships or vessels of may be seized the United States, wheresoever found, and brought which have taken on board, or which may be intended for the purpose of taking on board, or of transporting, or may have transported, any negro, mulatto, or person of colour, in violation of any of the provisions of the Act, entitled "An act in addition to an act to prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States, from and after the first day of |