---
kind: "section"
citation: "50 U.S.C. § 4320"
title: "50"
title_heading: "War and National Defense"
number: "4320"
heading: "Payment of income, etc., by Alien Property Custodian"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/50/4320"
units:
  - "Chapter 53 — Trading with the Enemy"
---

# §4320. Payment of income, etc., by Alien Property Custodian


The Alien Property Custodian is directed to pay to the [person](/usc/50/4335.md?p=b-1) entitled thereto, from and after March 4, 1923, the net income (including dividends, interest, annuities, and other earnings), accruing and collected thereafter, in respect of any money or property held in trust for such [person](/usc/50/4335.md?p=b-1) by the Alien Property Custodian or by the Treasurer of the United States for the account of the Alien Property Custodian, under such rules and regulations as the President may prescribe.


## Source credit

(Oct. 6, 1917, ch. 106, § 23, as added Mar. 4, 1923, ch. 285, § 2, 42 Stat. 1516; amended Mar. 10, 1928, ch. 167, § 17, 45 Stat. 275.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 23 of the former Appendix to this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

### Amendments

1928—Act Mar. 10, 1928, struck out restriction that no person be paid any amount over $10,000 per annum.

### Executive Documents

### Transfer of Functions

Functions vested by law in Alien Property Custodian and Office of Alien Property Custodian transferred to Attorney General by Reorg. Plan No. 1 of 1947, § 101, eff. July 1, 1947, 12 F.R. 4534, 61 Stat. 951, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.