Fleet List.

in the building or fitting of ships, the Local Board shall Emergency forthwith enter the name of such registrant on the Emer-gency Fleet Classification List, and shall enter in Column 29 of the Original Classification List, opposite the name of such registrant, the letters "E. F." in red ink. The classification of such registrant and all process herein prescribed in respect of him shall not be changed, except that, so long as he remains on the Emergency Fleet Classification List, he shall be regarded as not available for military service and, in all respects, as though he stood classified in Class V.

Section 154. Removing registrants from Emergency Fleet Classification List.

(a) Immediately upon discharge or removal of any Entry on list, registrant, who has been entered on the Emergency Fleet Classification List, from employment in the building and fitting of ships under the supervision of the Emergency Fleet Corporation or of the Navy, the officer who has requested his entry on that list, as prescribed in section 153 hereof, is required to report (Form 1025) to his Local Board the fact of his removal or discharge.

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(b) Within five days after the 1st of every month, any questing entry au officer specified in section 153 who has requested that a list (see sec. 153) to registrant be placed upon the Emergency Fleet Classifi-port, soe seo. cation List of any Local Board, and who has not rendered the report prescribed in paragraph (a) of this section in respect of such registrant, is required to report to such board (Form 1025) that such registrant is still employed under the circumstances upon which he was placed on such list and to request the continuance of such registrant upon such list.

(c) On the 10th of each month Local Boards shall carefully check up the reports received since the 1st of the month in respect of registrants entered on the Emergency Fleet Classification List.

list.

(d) Whenever the report prescribed in paragraph (a) hereof is received, or whenever, upon the check prescribed in paragraph (c) hereof, it appears that the report prescribed in paragraph (b) hereof has not been received in respect of any registrant on the Emergency Fleet Classification List, the name of such registrant shall be stricken forthwith from such list by drawing a red-ink, Removal from line through it. The letters "E. F." shall be likewise removed from their place on original Classification List opposite the name of such registrant, and the registrant shall thereafter stand classified as though his name had never been entered upon the Emergency Fleet Classification List. He shall not be eligible for reentry on the latter list for a period of one month from the date of his removal therefrom. If his class and order number have been reached or passed by calls into military service he shall be immediately inducted into military service in the normal manner, and, after the order for him to

passports.

Permits for report to his Local Board for military duty has been -issued, no request again to place him on the Emergency Fleet Classification List can be considered.

Forms 1024 and 1025 will be found in Sections 297 and 298, but no printed forms will be furnished.

Section 155. Officers of the Navy or the Emergency Fleet Corporation to number reports and requests serially and to keep a file of the same. The reports and requests concerning registrants engaged in the building or fitting of ships are to be made Officers making on postal card forms. Each officer authorized by Secquests, see sec. tion 153 to make such reports and requests shall keep copies thereof, which shall be serially numbered and the number of each such report or request shall be entered on the original and the copy thereof under the caption "Emergency Fleet Report (or Request) No.-" in the upper left-hand corner of the card.

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153.

E. PERMITS FOR PASSPORTS.

For passports. Section 156. Permits for passports and to go to Canada.

To Canada.

Board.

The State Department issues passports to persons subject to draft only when the application is accompanied by a permit of the Provost Marshal General to leave the country.

No passport is required by the State Department to go to Canada, but persons subject to draft who desire to cross the line are often subjected to delay while their cases are being investigated.

When any registered person desires a passport or to go Issued by Local to Canada, he may apply to his Local Board for a permit. The Local Board shall consider the application, and if the person is not likely to be called within the period of the proposed absence, or if the board is otherwise assured that favorable action will not result in evasion of or interference with the execution of the law, the Local Board shall take from the applicant a statement of his address while absent, and an engagement to keep himself informed of any call that may be made upon him and to return immediately upon call. Thereupon the Local Board may issue the permit.

Forms, see secs. 299, 300.

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The forms for this application (Form 1026) and permit (Form 1027) will be found in Sections 299 and 300, but no printed forms will be furnished.

If the applicant is so far distant from his own Local Board that it would work hardship for him to apply Applicants dis- thereto for a permit, he may apply to the nearest Local Board to investigate his case and at the registrant's expense to telegraph or write to the registrant's Local Board for authority to issue the permit with a recommendation as to the advisability of issuing it. Upon receipt of such authority the Local Board to which the registrant applies may issue the permit.

PART VII.

MOBILIZATION.

Section 157. The order and notification of induction

into military service.

quotas.

The Provost Marshal General is charged with the Notification of mobilization of selected men and with all matters relating to their assembly, entrainment, and transportation up to the time they arrive at a mobilization camp and including supervision of the preparation of schedules for entrainment and transportation. The Provost Marshal General shall notify each State Adjutant General to furnish, at a specified time or times and place or places, the net quota of the State or any proportion or part thereof; whereupon the Adjutant General of the State shall notify each Local Board of the exact number of selected men to be furnished by such Board, and of the date, place, and hour of entrainment. Upon receipt of this notification from the Adjutant General of the State, the Local Board shall enter in column 24 on the Classification List, after the name of each registrant to Entry in classi be called for entrainment, the day and hour on which the registrant is to report to the Local Board, which day and hour must be not more than 24 nor less than 6 hours in advance of the time set for entrainment.

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Immediately upon making such entries in column 24 of the Classification List opposite the name of each such registrant the Local Board shall mail to the last-known address of each such registrant an order (Form 1028, in-Notice to regiscluding Form 1028A) to report to the Local Board for 301, and 302. military duty at the hour, day, and place specified in said order, which hour and day shall be the same as that stamped or written in column 24 of the Classification List after the name of such registrant. From and after the day and hour thus specified each such registrant shall be in the military service of the United In military States, and either the entry of such date after the name of any such registrant on the Classification List or the mailing to any such registrant of the order into military service as provided in this paragraph shall constitute the giving of notice to such registrant that from and after such day and hour he will be in the military service of the United States, and of his duty to report to the Local Board at the hour and on the day specified.

Orders to report to a Local Board for military duty (Form 1028) should be issued in ample time for selected men to compose their affairs before leaving home.

service.

Mobilization.

time.

Section 158. Selecting qualified men for entrainment.

The men to be ordered into military service by a Local Board in filling any part of its quota shall be selected in the order of their liability within their class as shown on the Classification List, including noncombatants, except that

Advancement of (a) Any registrant whose order number is so early that, although he is not within the particular part of the quota which is to be sent, he is within the total quota, may make application to the Local Board to be ordered into military service and entrained with that part of the quota of the Local Board to be sent next after such application. If the granting of the application would increase the number ordered by the Adjutant General to be entrained by more than two men, the application will be denied.

Postponement

of time.

See sec. 124.

(b) To relieve cases of special hardship, or cases of persons temporarily disabled by reason of sickness or injury, the Local Board may delay the call of any registrant whose order number is within the part of the quota to be sent, and may call in place of him another registrant whose order number, while not within such part, is within the total quota. Great care must be taken to see that no hardship is imposed on the person sent in place of the registrant whose call is thus delayed. The authority granted herein must be exercised sparingly and only in cases of special hardship or temporary disability shown to the satisfaction of the Board.

(c) No man physically disqualified for general military service but physically qualified for special and limited service shall be inducted into military service except upon a special and specific call by the Adjutant General of the State for men physically disqualified for general military service and physically qualified for special and limited military service only.

(d) No man whose classification is still pending before a Local or District Board shall be ordered into military service, but the fact that the classification of men with earlier order numbers is still pending before a Local or District Board shall not defer the order into military service of any regis"Finally classi- trant who has been finally classified and whose place on the Classification List (excluding the names and numbers of men whose classification is pending before a Local or District Board) makes him next for call.

fied"; see sec. 110.

Limitations on change in time.

Nothing in this section shall be construed as authorizing a Local Board to send to military service any registrant whose order number is so late that he is not within the current quota of the Board, or to delay beyond the date when the last of the quota is ordered into military service the order

into military service of any registrant whose number is within the quota, or to send less than the total number called for by the Adjutant General of the State, or more than two men in excess thereof. Section 159. Preparing mobilization papers to go to camp.

After the mailing of the orders into military service prescribed in section 157 and in ample time before entrainment the Local Board shall prepare the following papers:

Mobilization.

(a) Four copies of a list on Form 1029 of men ordered to List, see sec. 303. report for military duty as prescribed in section 157 hereof. The Local Board shall place on this list after the name

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of any man found to be a nonconbatant in accordance Noncombatwith section 79 the symbol zero (0).

tration card.

ical examination.

(b) Two certified copies of the original registration Copies of regiscard of each person whose name is included on Form 1029. (c) Two copies of the report of physical examination, Coples of physin respect of each person whose name is included on Form 1029. These are two of the copies of Form 1010 already prepared. The Local Board shall retain the third copy in its files.

These papers must be prepared with the greatest care and particularity, especial attention being paid to the correct spelling and accurate entry of names.

Papers; see sec.

Section 160. What to do with mobilization papers. The Local Board shall divide these papers into two sets, 159. the first set to contain two copies of Form 1029 and one copy each of the registration card and of the physical examination report in respect of each person whose name is entered on Form 1029. The papers in this set Papers carried are to be delivered to the man in charge of the party, to position; see sec. be handed by him to the military authorities immediately upon the arrival of the party at the mobilization

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The second set is to contain one copy of Form 1029 and one copy each of the registration card and report of physical examination in respect of each person whose name is entered on Form 1029. The papers in this set Papers mailed. are to be mailed to the Adjutant at the mobilization camp by registered mail by the Local Board immediately upon the entrainment of the party. The fourth copy of Form 1029 is to be retained with the records of the Local Board.

Section 161. Providing meals and lodging.

If it should be necessary to provide meals and lodging Meals and lodg ings provided by for any selected man or men who have been ordered to local boards. report to a Local Board for entrainment, the Local Board shall, in ample time before such persons are ordered to report, make the necessary arrangements with hotels, restaurants, or lodging houses for the accommodation of such selected man or men, inspect the sleeping places to see that the arrangements are decent and sanitary, and