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[CITE: 50USC23]

 
                   TITLE 50--WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
                        CHAPTER 3--ALIEN ENEMIES
 
Sec. 23. Jurisdiction of United States courts and judges

    After any such proclamation has been made, the several courts of the 
United States, having criminal jurisdiction, and the several justices 
and judges of the courts of the United States, are authorized and it 
shall be their duty, upon complaint against any alien enemy resident and 
at large within such jurisdiction or district, to the danger of the 
public peace or safety, and contrary to the tenor or intent of such 
proclamation, or other regulations which the President may have 
established, to cause such alien to be duly apprehended and conveyed 
before such court, judge, or justice; and after a full examination and 
hearing on such complaint, and sufficient cause appearing, to order such 
alien to be removed out of the territory of the United States, or to 
give sureties for his good behavior, or to be otherwise restrained, 
conformably to the proclamation or regulations established as aforesaid, 
and to imprison, or otherwise secure such alien, until the order which 
may be so made shall be performed.

(R.S. Sec. 4069.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 4069 derived from act July 6, 1798, ch. 66, Sec. 2, 1 
Stat. 577.

                  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.
