Chapter XLIV: Appendix: E

REMOVAL OF ALIEN ENEMIES

R. S. SEC. 4067 (as amended). Whenever there is a declared war between the United States and any foreign nation or government, or any invasion or predatory incursion is perpetrated, attempted, or threatened against the territory of the United States, by any foreign nation or government, and the President makes public proclamation of the event, _all natives_, citizens, denizens, or _subjects_ of the hostile nation or government, _being of the age of fourteen years and upward_, who shall be within the United States, and not actually naturalized, shall be _liable to be apprehended_, restrained, secured and removed, as alien enemies. The President is authorized, in any such event, by his proclamation thereof, or other public act, to direct the conduct to be observed, on the part of the United States toward the aliens who become so liable; the manner and degree of the restraint to which they shall be subject, and in what cases, and upon what security their residences shall be permitted, and to _provide for the removal_ of those who, not being permitted to reside within the United States, refuse or neglect to depart therefrom; and to _establish any other regulations_, which are found necessary in the premises and for the public safety. (Act of July 6, 1798, Chap. 66, Sec. 1, Stat. 577. As amended by Act of April 16, 1918: Public No. 131—65th Congress: H. R. 9504.)