authority shall be offered to any registrar, clerk, or other recording officer, Federal or otherwise, within the United States, such officer shall record the same in like manner as a power of attorney, and such record or a duly certified copy thereof shall be received in evidence in all courts of the United States or other courts within the United States.

See Central Union Trust Company v. Garvan, 254 U. S. 554, 65 Law. Ed. 403, 41 S. Ct. 214; American Exchange National Bank v. Garvan, 273 Fed. 43, affd.— U. S. —; In re Miller, 281 Fed. 764; Garvan v. Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co., 275 Fed. 486; Garvan v. Certain Shares of International A. Corporation, 276 Fed. 206; Salamandra Insurance Co. v. New York Life Insurance and Trust Co., 254 Fed. 852; Miller v. Rouse, 276 Fed. 715; Spiegelberg v. Garvan, 260 Fed. 302, Metz v. Garvan, unreported; In re Garvan, Re Hermanos' Property, 270 Fed. 1002; Kahn v. Garvan, 263 Fed. 909; Waldes v. Basch, 109 Misc. 306, 179 N. Y. Supp. 713, affd. 191 App. Div. 904, 181 N. Y. Supp. 958; Wageck v. Travelers Insurance Co., 108 Misc. 65, 177 N. Y. Supp. 327; Biesantz v. Supreme Council Royal Arcanum, 106 Misc. 545, 175 N. Y. Supp. 46; Matter · of Schaefer, 112 Misc. 308, 182 N. Y. Supp. 732.

Section 8. (a) [Mortgages, etc., and contracts with enemy.] That any person not an enemy or ally of enemy holding a lawful mortgage, pledge, or lien, or other right in the nature of security in property of an enemy or ally of enemy which, by law or by the terms of the instrument creating such mortgage, pledge, or lien, or right, may be disposed

of on notice or presentation or demand, and any person not an enemy or ally of enemy who is a party to any lawful contract with an enemy or ally of enemy, the terms of which provide for a termination thereof upon notice or for acceleration of maturity on presentation or demand, may continue to hold said property, and, after default, may dispose of the property in accordance with law or may terminate or mature such contract by notice or presentation or demand served or made on the alien property custodian in accordance with the law and the terms of such instrument or contract and under such rules and regulations as the President shall prescribe; and such notice and such presentation and demand shall have, in all respects, the same force and effect as if duly served or made upon the enemy or ally of enemy personally: Provided, That no such rule or regulation shall require that notice or presentation or demand shall be served or made in any case in which, by law or by the terms of said instrument or contract, no notice, presentation, or demand was, prior to the passage of this Act, required; and that in case where, by law or by the terms of such instrument or contract, notice is required, no longer period of notice shall be required: Provided further, That if, on any such disposition of property, a surplus shall remain after the satisfaction of the mortgage, pledge, lien, or other right in the nature of security, notice of that fact shall be

given to the President pursuant to such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, and such surplus shall be held subject to his further order.

(b) [Abrogation of certain contracts with enemy.] That any contract entered into prior to the beginning of the war between any citizen of the United States or any corporation organized within the United States, and an enemy or ally of an enemy, the terms of which provide for the delivery, during or after any war in which a present enemy or ally of enemy nation has been or is now engaged, of anything produced, mined, or manufactured in the United States, may be abrogated by such citizen or corporation by serving thirty days' notice in writing upon the alien property custodian of his or its election to abrogate such contract.

(c) [Suspension of statute of limitations.] The running of any statute of limitations shall be suspended with reference to the rights or remedies on any contract or obligation entered into prior to the beginning of the war between the parties neither of whom is an enemy or ally of enemy, and containing any promise to pay or liability for payment which is evidenced by drafts or other commercial paper drawn against or secured by funds or other property situated in an enemy or ally of enemy country, and no suit shall be maintained on any such contract or obligation in any court within the United States

until after the end of the war, or until the said funds or property shall be released for the payment or satisfaction of such contract or obligation: Provided, however, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent the suspension of the running of the statute of limitations in all other cases where such suspension would occur under existing law.

See Mayer v. Garvan, 270 Fed. 229; Rossie v. Garvan, 274 Fed. 447; Central Union Trust Co. v. Garvan, 254 U. S. 554, 65 Law. Ed. 403, 41 S. Ct. 214.

Section 9. [Claims by other than enemies against property held by custodian; suits in equity; moneys or property not liable to attachment, etc.] That any person, not an enemy, or ally of enemy, claiming any interest, right, or title in any money or other property which may have been conveyed, transferred, assigned, delivered, or paid to the alien property custodian hereunder, and held by him or by the Treasurer of the United States, or to whom any debt may be owing from an enemy, or ally of enemy, whose property or any part thereof shall have been conveyed, transferred, assigned, delivered, or paid to the alien property custodian hereunder, and held by him or by the Treasurer of the United States, may file with the said custodian a notice of his claim under oath and in such form and containing such particulars as the said custodian shall require; and the President, if application is

made therefor by the claimant, may, with the assent of the owner of said property and of all persons claiming any right, title, or interest therein, 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 President shall determine said claimant is entitled: Provided, That no such order by the President shall bar any person from the prosecution of any suit at law or in equity against the claimant to establish any right, title or interest which he may have in such money or other property. If the President shall not so order within sixty days after the filing of such application, or if the claimant shall have filed the notice as above required and shall have made no application to the President, said claimant may, at any time before the expiration of six months after the end of the war, institute a suit in equity in the district court of the United States for the district in which such claimant resides, or, if a corporation, where it has its principal place of business (to which suit the alien property custodian or the Treasurer of the United States, as the case may be, shall be made a party defendant), to establish the interest, right, title, or debt so claimed, and if suit shall be so instituted then the money or other property of the enemy, or ally of enemy, against whom such inter