---
kind: "section"
citation: "50 U.S.C. § 24"
title: "50"
title_heading: "War and National Defense"
number: "24"
heading: "Duties of marshals"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/50/24"
units:
  - "Chapter 3 — Alien Enemies"
---

# §24. Duties of marshals


When an alien enemy is required by the President, or by order of any [court](/usc/50/1881.md?p=b-2), 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](/usc/50/1841.md?p=1), or by his deputy or other discreet [person](/usc/50/1841.md?p=1) to be employed by him, by causing a removal of such alien out of the territory of the [United States](/usc/50/47f.md?p=d); and for such removal the marshal shall have the warrant of the President, or of the [court](/usc/50/1881.md?p=b-2), judge, or justice ordering the same, as the case may be.


## Source credit

(R.S. § 4070.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

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