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[CITE: 50USC22]

 
                   TITLE 50--WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
                        CHAPTER 3--ALIEN ENEMIES
 
Sec. 22. Time allowed to settle affairs and depart

    When an alien who becomes liable as an enemy, in the manner 
prescribed in section 21 of this title, is not chargeable with actual 
hostility, or other crime against the public safety, he shall be 
allowed, for the recovery, disposal, and removal of his goods and 
effects, and for his departure, the full time which is or shall be 
stipulated by any treaty then in force between the United States and the 
hostile nation or government of which he is a native citizen, denizen, 
or subject; and where no such treaty exists, or is in force, the 
President may ascertain and declare such reasonable time as may be 
consistent with the public safety, and according to the dictates of 
humanity and national hospitality.

(R.S. Sec. 4068.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 4068 derived from acts July 6, 1798, ch. 66, Sec. 1, 1 
Stat. 577; July 6, 1812, ch. 130, 2 Stat. 781.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 9, 34, 1981, 1982 of 
Appendix to this title; title 5 section 8332.
