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specified in this section, and in addition for the amount of the damages 
done by said craft. The latter sum shall be placed to the credit of the 
appropriation for the improvement of the harbor or waterway in which 
the damage occurred, and said craft may be proceeded against summarily 
by way of libel in any district court of the United States having 
jurisdiction thereof. 
e. Section 4 of the Oil Pollution Act, 1924 (43 Stat. 605; 
33 U.S.C. 434) provides that any person who violates section 3 of the 
Act is guilty of a misdemeanor. Upon conviction he shall be punished 
by fine, imprisonment, or both. Any vessel (other than a vessel owned 
and operated by the United States) from which oil is discharged in 
violation of section 3 of the Act shall be liable for the pecuniary 
penalty specified. Clearance of such vessel from a port of the United 
States may be withheld until the penalty is paid, and said penalty shall 
constitute a lien on such vessel which may be recovered in proceedings 
by libel in rem in the district court of the United States for any 
district within which the vessel may be. Section 5 of the Act (43 
Stat. 605; 33 U.S.C. 435) provides that a board of local inspectors 
of vessels may suspend or revoke a license issued by any such board 
to the master or other licensed officer of any vessel found violating 
the provisions of section 3 of the Act. 
16. Enforcement. 
a. Section 17 of the River and Harbor Act approved 3 March 
1899 (30 Stat. 1153; 33 U.S.C. 413) provides that the Department of 
Justice shall conduct the legal proceedings necessary to enforce the 
provisions of sections 9 to 16, inclusive, of the Act. It shall be 
the duty of district attorneys of the United States to prosecute 
vigorously all offenders against the same whenever requested to do so 
by the Secretary of the Army or by any of his designated representatives. 
b. Under the provisions of Section 17 of the Act District 
Engineers and the United States collectors of customs and other revenue 
officers have power and authority to swear out process and to arrest 
and take into: custody, with or without process, any person or persons 
who may commit any of the acts or offenses prohibited by sections 9 
to 16, inclusive, of the Act, or who may violate any of the provisions 
of the same. No person shall be arrested without process for any offense 
not committed in the presence of some one of the aforesaid officials. 
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