Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 41 Part 1.djvu/999

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978 SIXTYSIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 241. 1920. ’,;{g;ig;égams,c1a,m_ termine said claimant is entitled: Provided, That no such order by ants not and. the President shall bar any person from the prosecution of any suit S _ ed it th at law or in equity against the claimant to establish any right, title, w,,‘Qf°TE°§2tai3;$§” mi or interest which e may have in such money or other property. If

  • °’°$*» °“’· the President shall not so order within sixty days after the filing of

such aplplication or if the claimant shall have filed the notice as above require and shall have made no aipplication to the President, said claimant may, at any time before the expiration of six months after coggis <“°’*°” °‘ the end of the war institute a suit in equity in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia or in the district court of the United States for the district in which such claimant resides, or, if a corporation, where it has its dprincipal place of business (to which suit the Alien Property Custo an or the Treasurer of the United States, as the case may be, shall be made a party defendant), to establish the raymmt, at., <>¤ interest, right, title, or debt so claimed, and if so established the °'d°' °’ °°“'°‘ court shall order the payment, conveyance, transfer, assignment, or delivery to said claimant of the money or other property so held by the Alien Property Custodian or by the Treasurer of the United States _ or of the interest therein to which the court shall determiuelsaid ,,,§."$§f§‘§°jl{°,{g,f,§°§,I§j claimant is entitled. If suit shall be so instituted, then such money or property shall be retained in the custodg of the Alien Property Custodian, or in the Treasury of the United tates, as jgrovided in this Act, and until any final juiglment or decree which s all be entered in favor of the claimant sh be fully satisfied by payment or conveyance, transfer, assignment, or delivery by the defendant, or by the Alien Property Custodian, or '1‘reasurer of the United States on order of the court, or until Enal judgment or decree shall be entered against the claimant or suit otherwise terminated. pesifnmu owner- " (b) In respect of all money or other properiy conveyed, transmp ° P'°"°"" ferred, assigned, delivered, or aid to the Alien ropierty Custodian or seized by him hereunder and}l1eld by him or by the reasurer of the United States, if the President shall determine that the owner thereof at the time such money or other property was required to be so conveyed, transferred, assigned, delivered, or paid to the Alien Property Custodian or at the time when it was voluntarily delivered to him or was seized by him wassy tum um mg- " (1) A citizen or subject of any nation or State or free city other f,‘,§§f“3 °' °°'“““" than Germany or Austria or Hungary or Austria-Hungary, and is at the time of the return of such money or other property hereunder a citizen or subject of any such nation or State or free city; or ua§ig;Ijvmg,QC*;{Qj*{§gj} _ ‘_‘ (2) A woman who at the time of her marriage was a subject or nm. ae. _ citizen of a nation which has remained neutral in the war, or of a P°""**" “*‘· nation which was associated with the United States in the prosecution of said war, and who prior to April 6, 1917, intermarried with a c.m·nu·m. subject or citizen of Germany or Austria-Hungary and that the money or other property concerned was not acquired by such woman either directly or indirectly from any subject or citizen of Germany or _ Austria·Hungary;o1· cgjigfygg-,,;}¤,;f;;j " (3) A woman who at the time of her marriage was a citizen of the ue}; is c¤qzyq¤. wr. United States (said citizenship having been acquired by birth in the °*’j?‘ ""‘ United States), and who prior to April 6, 1917, intermarried with a C‘>¤dM¤· subject or citizen of Germany or Austria-Hungary, and that the money or other property concerned was not acquired by such woman either directly or indirectly from any subject or citizen of Germany _ _ or Austria-Hungary;or _ 0,,§j{rd1g§*m,§;;;;;;;; "(4_) A citizen or subject of Germany or Austria or Hunaary or argéum ggtejisgggfg. Austria-Hungary and WHS, at the time Of the severance of diplomatic W " “‘“”” ‘ relations between the United States and such nations, respectively, accredited to the United States as a diplomatic or consular officer of any such nation, or the wife or minor child of such officer, and that