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Title 50 — War and National Defense

Chapter 3 — Alien Enemies

§ 24. Duties of marshals

Statutory text

When an alien enemy is required by the President, or by order of any court, judge, or justice, to depart and to be removed, it shall be the duty of the marshal of the district in which he shall be apprehended to provide therefor and to execute such order in person, or by his deputy or other discreet person to be employed by him, by causing a removal of such alien out of the territory of the United States; and for such removal the marshal shall have the warrant of the President, or of the court, judge, or justice ordering the same, as the case may be.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. (R.S. § 4070.)

    Enacted · 50 U.S.C. § 24

    (R.S. § 4070.)

    Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (R.S. § 4070.)

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 unresolved

Editorial Notes

Codification

R.S. § 4070 derived from act July 6, 1798, ch. 66, § 3, 1 Stat. 578.

Credits

(R.S. § 4070.)

Parsed from the official OLRC USLM XML in data/usc_all/usc50.xml · release point 119-108 · OLRC build 2026-09-09

USLM identifier /us/usc/t50/s24