able, there shall be createti and
established one such locai board
in each county or similar subdi
vision in each State, and one for
approximately each thirty thou
sand of population in each city
of thirty thousand population or
over, accordine to the last census
taken or estimates furnished by
the Bureau of Census of the De
partment of Commrce. Such
boards shall be appointed by the
President, and shall consist of
three or more members, none of
who mshall be connected with
the military establishment, to be
chosen from among the locai
authorities of such subdivision
or from other citizens residing in
the subdivision or area in which
the respective boards will have
jurisdiction under the rules and
regulation prescribed by the Pre
sident. Such boards shall have
power within their respective
jurisdictions to hear and deter
mine, subject to review as here
inafter provided, ali questions of
exempion under this act, and ali
questions or claims for including
or dischargind individuals or
classes of individuals from the
selective draft, which shall be
iliade under rules and regula
tions prescribed by the Presi
dent, except, any and every
question or claim for includine
oi- excluding or discharging per
sons or classes of persons from
the selective draft under the pro
visions of this act authorizing
the President to exclude or dis
charge from the selective draft
"Persons engaged in industries,
including agriculture, found to
be necessary to the maintenance
of the Military Establishment, or
the ei'fective operation of the
military forces, or the mainten
ance of national interest during
the emergency.
The President is hereby auth
orized to establish additional
boards ,one in each Federai Judi
cial districi of the United States
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i c p ns istiug of such number of ci
tizens not connected with the
■Hilitary establishment, as the
I'resident niay determine. The
! lesident is hereby authorized,
his discretion, to establish
01 o than one such board in any
i 1 edera! Judicial district of the
L nited States, or to establish
<>ne such board having jurisdic
tion ot an area extending into
more than one Federai Judicial
district.
Such district boards shall re
view on appeal and affirm, mo
di ly, or reverse any decision of
any locai board having jurisdic
tion in the area in which any
such district board has jurisdic
tion under the rules and regula
tions prescribed by the Presi
dent. Such district boards shall
have exclusive originai jurisdic
tion within their respective areas
to hear and determine ali ques-
tions or claims for including oi
excluding or discharging persons
•r classes of persons from the
selective draft, under the provi
sions of this act not included
within the originai jurisdiction
ol' such locai boards.
The decisions of such district
boards shall be final, except that
in accordance with such mie
and regulations as the Presiden'
may prescribe, he may affirm 1
modify or reverse any such do
cision.
Any vacancy in any such locai
board or district board shall be
fi lied by the President, and an\
member of any such locai board
or district board may be remov
ed and another appointed in hi
place by the President, whenevei
he considers that the interest of
the nation demanda it.
The President shall make ru
les and regulations governine
the organizations and procedure
of such locai boards and district
boards, and providing for and
governili? appeals from such lo
cai boards to such district boards
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and reviews of the decisions of
[ any locai board by the district
board having jurisdiction, and
, determining and prescribing the
; severa! areas in which the res
pective loca! boards and districi
| boards shall have jurisdiction,
j and ali other rules and regula
tions necessary to carry out the
terms and provisions of this sec
tion, and shall provide for the
issuance of certiiicates of ex
jemption, or partial or limited ex
emptions, and for a system to
?\clude and disellarle indivi
duals from selective draft.
| Ali of 21 fo .'1(1 Must Register
Sec. !>. That ali male persons
between the ages of twenty-one
'and thirty, both inclusive, shal)
be subject to registration in ac-
I eordance with regulations to be
; prescribed by the President ; and
upon proclamation by the Presi
lent or other publico notice triven
| by him or by his direction stat
ing the time and place of such
registration, it shall be the duty
of ali persons of the designated j
ages, except officerà and enlisted j
men of the regular army, the
navy and the National Guard
ind Naval Milititi while in the
sei-vice of the United States to
ivesent themselves for and sub
j mit to registration under th<"
I urovisions of this act; and every j
such persoli shall be deemed to
have notice of the requirements
ol' this act iiiion the publication
)f said proclamation or other
notice as aforesaid given by the
President or by his direction;
ind any person who shall will
fully fail or refuse to piv-ont
himself for registration or to
mbmit thereto as herein provid
•d shall be guilty of a misdemea
ìor and shall, unon convlnetion
in the district court of the Uni- i
ted States having jurisdiction i
thereof, be punished by impri- i
sonment for not more than one ,
vear, and shall thereupon be duly i
reo-isterd. Provided, That in the I
Ci 1 li of the docket precedence
shall be given, in courts trying
t sanie, to the trial of criminal
eeedings under this act. Pro
vided further, That persons shall
bo subject to registration as lie
reln provided who shall bave at
u.ined their twenty-first birth
daand who shall not have at
i.'Jned their thirty-first birth
■' y on or before the day set for
ti ■ registration, and ali persons
-o registered shall be and remain
subject to draft into the forces
hereby authorized, unless e\-
"inpted or executed therefrom as
i;i this act provided. Provided
further, That in the case of tem
por-iry absence from actual place
of legai residence of any persoli
liable to registration as provided
heroin such registration may be
lade by mail under regulations
to be prescribed by the Presi
dent.
Sec. (ì That the President is
hereby authorized to utilize the
service of any or ali departments
•ind any or ali officers or agents
of the United States and of the
several States, Territories andj
the District of Columbia and
subdivisions thereof in the exe
cutivi of this act and ali officers
and agents of the United Statesi
nd of the several States, Terri
tories and subdivisions thereof
•ind of the District of Columbia,
and ali persons designated or
appointed under regulations pre
uribed by the President, wheth- i
•r such appointments are made
' y the President himself or by i
Mie C.overnor or other officer of i
anv State or Tei ritory to per- i
forni any duty in the execution
•>f this act, are hereby required i
to perform -neh duty as the Pre
sident shi'll order or direct, and!
ali such officers and auents and !
persons so designated or ap-'l
pointed shall hereby have full I
authority for ali acts done by 11
th m in the execution of this act li
l>y the direction of the President. i
Correspondence in the execution
of this act may he carrier] in
penalty envelopes hearing the
frank of the War Department.
Any person charged as he re in
juovideil with the duty of carry
ing into er'fect any of the provi-
SÌOIÌS of this act or the regula
tions mAde or directions givon
thereundor Who shall fail 01 ne
gloct to perforiti suoli duty, and
any person charged with such
duty or having and exercising
any authority under said act,
regidations or directions, who
shall knowingly make or ho a
party to the making of any false
or incorrect registration, physi
xamination, oxpmption, en
li tment, enrollment or mustcr,
and any person who shall make
or he a party to the making of
any false statement or certifica
te as *o the fitness or liahility
of himself or ani other person
for servire under the provisions
of this act, or regulations macie
hy the President thereundor, or
othenvise evades or aids another
to evade the requirements of
this act or of said regulations, or
who in any mannor shall fail or
noglect fully to perforiti any
Uity required of him in the ex
ecution of this act, shall, if not
to military law, Ite guilty
if a misodmeanor and upon con
mction in the district court of
Lhe Unitod States having juris- i
liction thereof, ho punished hy i
mprosinment for not more than ;
me year, or if subject to miti- i
lary law, shall he triod hy court- I
nartial and suffer such punish- <
nont as a court-martial may i
lirect. !
Koep Ali Men in Service
Sec. 7. That the qualifications ,
md conditions for voluntary en- r
istment as herein provided shall •
>o the sanie as those prescrihed i
>.v existing law for enlistmonts <
n the regular arniy, except that i
•ecruits must ho between the I
i i ages, ol eighteen and forty
1 jyears, both inclusive, at the time
3 of their enlistment; and such
. enslistnient shall he for the pe
ì riod of the emergency unless
- sooner discharged. Ali enlist
- menta, includi»# those in the re
• gular arniy reserve, which are
i in force on the date of the ap
• provai ol this act and which
I would terminate during the
emergency shall continue in for
*'•' during the emergency unless
sooner discharged; hut nothing
h ere in contained shall he cons-
Irued to shorten the period of
iny existing enlistment: Provi
led. 'I hat ali persoti enlisted or
draited under any of the provi
sions of this act shall as far as
practicable he grouped into units
by States and politicai subdivi
sions ol the sanie: Provided
lurther, That ali persons who
liave enlisted silice Aprii 1. 1917,
either in the regular army or in
l.he National Guani, and ali per
sons who have enlisted in thej
National Guard since June '3,
upon their application shall
he discharged upon the termina
tion ol the existing emergency.
The President may provide
for the discharge of any or ali I
enlisted men whose status with |
respect to dependents rendersi
neh discharge advisahle; and ho l
may also authorize the employ
ment on any active dut.v of re
tired enlisted men of the regular
army, either with their rank on
the retired list or in higher en
listed grades, and such retired
enlisted men shall receive the
full pa.v and allowances of the <
grades in which they are active- i
\v employed.
Sec. 8. That the President, by
and with the advice and consent i
of the Senato, is authorized to
appoint for the» period of the ex- i
isting emergency such general
officers of appropriate grades as i
may he necessary for dut.v with i
hrigades, divisions and higher i
■ units in which the forces provid
> ed l'or herein may be orgunized
i b} the President, and general
officers of the appropriate grade
, for the several Coast Ai*tillery
distriets. In so far as such ap
imintments may be made from
any of the forces herein provided
for, the appointees may be se
lected irrespective of the grades
lield by them in such forces. Va
cancies in ali grades in the regu
lar army resulting from the ap
pointment of officers thereof to
higher grades in the forces other
chan the regular army herein
provided for, shall be filled by
temporary promotions and ap
liointments in the manner pre
scribed for filling temporary va
'■ancies by section 114 of the na
tional defense act approved June
>, IfMfi ;and officers appointed
under the provisions of this act
!o higher grades in the forces
J other than the regular army
herein provided for shall not
j vacate their permanent commis
>ions nor be prejudiced in their
relative or lineai standing in the
regular army.
Must Alaintain Standard
Sec. !>. That the appointments
authorized and made as provided
iby the second, third, fourth,
fifth and sixth paragraphs of
ection 1 and by section 8 of this
act, and the temporary appoint
ments in the regular army auth
orized by the first paragraph of
ection 1 of this act, shall he for
the period of the emergency, un
less sooner terminated by dis
charge or otherwise. The Presi
dent is liorehv authorized to dis
charge any officer from the of
fice held by him under such ap
pointment for any cause which,
in the judgment of the Presi
dent, would promote the public
ervice : and the general com
manding any division and higher
tactical organization or territo
rial department is authorized to
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