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Volume 44

Public Law 69–252

To amend the Trading with the Enemy Act.

Approved May 7, 1926

Statutory text

An Act

To amend the Trading with the Enemy Act.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That section 9 of the Trading with the Enemy Act, as amended, is amended by inserting between paragraphs (3) and (4), of subsection (b), of section 9, a new paragraph to read as follows:

“(3A)

An individual who was at such time a citizen or subject of

Return to subjects of Central Powers, etc., of money acquired while bona fide residents in United States.

Germany, Austria, Hungary, or Austria-Hungary, or not a citizen or subject of any nation, state or free city, and that the money or other property concerned was acquired by such individual while a bona fide resident of the United States, and that such individual, on January 1, 1926, and at the time of the return of the money or other property, shall be a bona fide resident of the United States; or

“(3B)

Any individual who at such time was not a subject or

To persons not citizens or Central Powers, and now of neutral, etc. countries.

citizen of Germany, Austria, Hungary, or Austria-Hungary, and who is now a citizen or subject of a neutral or allied country: Provided, however, That nothing contained herein shall be construed

Proviso.

Existing rights not affected.

as limiting or abrogating any existing rights of an individual under the provisions of this Act; or”

Approved, May 7, 1926.

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