PART V.

THE PROCESS OF SELECTION.

Classification list; see sec. 267.

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A. THE QUESTIONNAIRE.

B. CLASSIFYING REGISTRANTS.

C. PHYSICAL EXAMINATION.

A. THE QUESTIONNAIRE.

Section 90. Preparing classification list.

The names of persons within the jurisdiction of each Local Board have heretofore been entered on a list (Form 102) in the order of their liability to be called to determine their availability for military service. This list shall be transferred to the Classification List (Form 1000), the pages of which shall be numbered from 1 upward. In transferring names from Form 102 to Form 1000 the address of the registrant shall be omitted, his name shall be entered in column 2, his serial number in column 4, his order number in column 1 and column 30, and, if he is a negro, the abbreviation "col." shall be written or stamped in column 3.

Late registra- When names are to be added to the Classification List, tion; see sec. 54. Change of sta- either because of late registration (section 54) or because sus see secs. 120, of change of status (section 120), such names shall be added at the bottom of the Classification List following the names of persons already entered thereon. The proper serial and order number, as soon as assigned, shall be entered opposite the name of each such person in the proper columns. In the left-hand margin of the body of the Classification List, opposite the line in which the registrants order number would have placed his name had there been room to insert it, shall be written the red ink letter "R" followed by the number of the page of the Classification List on which his name appears.

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Contents.

Section 91. The Questionnaire.

(a) The Questionnaire (Form 1001) shall consist primarily of a number of questions, divided into 12 series of questions (addressed to and to be answered under oath by every registrant), designed for the purpose of ascertaining the status of every registrant in relation to the various matters, things, and circumstances constituting ground for exemption or deferred classification. The Questionnaire shall also contain, as an integral part thereof, affidavits in support of claims for exemption or deferred classification in certain cases hereinafter specified. It shall also contain particular and specific regulations and instructions to registrants concerning each

series of questions and the procuring and filing of cer- Questionnaire. tificates and affidavits in certain cases. On the first page of the Questionnaire there shall be printed a notification and instruction requiring the registrant (whose name, together with the date of notice, shall be inserted) to fill out and return the Questionnaire in accordance with the regulations.

(b) The first page of the Questionnaire shall also ver contain a place for the registrant or other person to claim exemption or deferred classification and a place for a waiver by the registrant or other person of such claim.

(c) The answers and affidavits must be signed and sworn to in strict accordance with these regulations, and in strict conformity with the particular rules and instructions relating to the several series of questions in the Questionnaire itself.

Section 92. Mailing the Questionnaire and posting notice.

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Beginning on a day and within a period of time to be. To all regis designated by the Provost Marshal General, each Local cation list. Board shall send to the last known address of each registrant whose name appears on the Classification List, a Questionnaire. Before mailing any such Questionnaire, the name, address, telephone number (where procurable), serial number, order number and the stamp of the Local Board shall be entered on the first page of the Questionnaire and on the Cover Sheet (Form 1001-B) of the Questionnaire. The date of mailing shall then be entered on the first page of the Questionnaire, on the Cover Sheet Cover Sheet; see of the Questionnaire, and in column 5 of the Classification List opposite the name of the registrant to whom the Questionnaire is mailed. The notice to the registrant on the first page of the Questionnaire shall then be signed by a member of the Local Board, and the Questionnaire shall be mailed and the Cover Sheet inserted in the files of Mailing. the Local Board in its alphabetical order.

Immediately upon the mailing of the Questionnaires the Local Board shall each day post in its office, accessible

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to the public view, a notice (Form 1002) requiring regis-Notice; see sec. trants to whom Questionnaires have been mailed to file their return within seven days after the date of posting of such notice, and advising the public that thereafter the Classification Lists of the Local Board will be open for public inspection, and shall furnish to the press, with a Copy to press. request for publication, a copy of such notice (Form 1002). In mailing Questionnaires and posting notices on Form 1002 as herein provided, Local Boards shall proceed according to the order number of registrants; and on the day to be named by the Provost Marshal General as herein before provided, and on each day thereafter with the exception of Sundays and legal holidays, shall mail Questionnaires to one-twentieth or five per cent of the registrants within its jurisdiction,

Questionnaire. so that Questionnaires shall be mailed to all registrants, if possible, by the twentieth business day after said date.

Immediately upon completion of the mailing of all the Questionnaires and the posting of the notice in respect of Report to adju- all registrants within its jurisdiction the Local Board shall report such fact to the Adjutant General of the State by mail.

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Section 93. Notice to registrants and to all interested persons and effect of such notice.

The posting, at the time of the mailing of a Questiontutes full notice. naire, of the notice by a Local Board prescribed in section 92 shall constitute full notice to all concerned that the process of examination and selection has begun in respect of any registrant whose order number is included in such notice. (See secs. 6 and 7.)

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Section 94. Claiming deferred classification. Deferred classi- A claim of deferred classification shall be made by a registrant by placing a cross mark (X) on the first page of the Questionnaire, in the space opposite the division that states the ground of claim and by specifically claiming such deferred classification by his answer to the Claim by an-question at the bottom of such first page. Claims for deferred classification in respect of a registrant by another person shall be made in the same manner, either on the first page of the registrant's Questionnaire or by submitting to the Local Board a specific claim on a Form; see sec. duplicate of such first page (Form 1001-A) within seven

other person; see secs. 97, 98.

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days after the mailing of the Questionnaire to the registrant, as provided in section 92 hereof. Claims of deferred classification must be made before the Local Board, regardless of whether the claim is to be decided by the Local or District Board. Local Boards shall enter, in column 7 of the Classification List, the date of filing of a claim for deferred classification by another person in respect of a registrant.

Section 95. Manner and form of answers to Questionnaires, affidavits, and other proof.

The answering, making, executing, and filing of the Questionnaire and affidavits (not only the concurring and supporting affidavits printed in the Questionnaire, but also the additional affidavits voluntarily filed by the registrant or claimant, or required by the Local or District Board) shall be in strict conformity with the following:

(a) None of the printed portions of any of the questions shall be struck out or erased.

(b) If the registrant can not read, and the questions are read to him and filled out by some other person, all said questions and his answers thereto shall be read over to him by the officer who administers the oath to him before he signs and swears to the same, and if the registrant can not write, his cross-mark signature to his

answers and to his affidavit must all be witnessed by the Questionnairė. same officer.

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(c) Every person making a supporting affidavit must Supporting affiread every question and every answer of the particular' series of questions which he is supporting. All blanks in the supporting affidavits must be filled out in the handwriting of the person making the affidavit.

(d) None of the printed matter in the body of the Erasures. affidavits may be added to, erased, or struck out, except that the word "affirm" shall be struck out by those who swear to the affidavits, and the word "swear" shall be struck out by those who affirm, on account of religious or conscientious scruple against taking an oath.

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(e) The persons making a supporting affidavit must Supporting affiinsert in the proper blank spaces the number of every answer which he swears to be true, and the number of every answer which he swears he believes to be true.

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classification, and every person who claims exemption or deferred classification for him, may (and if the Local or District Board shall require it, he or they must) file with the Local Board additional affidavits in support of his or Additional affitheir claim or claims. All affidavits and other written proof (not an integral part of the Questionnaire) filed by the registrant, or by any other person, in support of any claim for exemption or discharge, whether of his or their own motion, or in response to the requirement of the Local or District Board, must be legibly written or typewritten on one side only of white paper of the approximate length, but no longer than a page of the Question

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Section 96. Duty of registrants to return Questionnaire.

The Questionnaire, answered and sworn to in strict accordance with these rules and regulations (and in strict conformity with the specific instructions governing cach series of answers, and each separate answer) must be filed with the Local Board on or before the seventh day after, seven days althe date of mailing of the Questionnaire. It shall be the putation of time duty of every registrant to whom a Questionnaire has see seo. 8. been mailed, but who, for some reason, has not personally received said Questionnaire, to apply to his Local Board

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for a copy thereof. Failure to receive the notice and Failure to reQuestionnaire will not excuse the registrant from respond-naire. ing within the time limit, nor shall it be ground for extension of time.

When any Questionnaire is returned, the Local Board Return. shall insert in Column 6 of the Classification List, opposite the name of the registrant and on the Cover Sheet the date of the return of the Questionnaire.

In all cases where the Questionnaire has not been returned within the seven-day period prescribed by these regulations, the registrant shall be treated as provided in Sections 129 and 130 of these relations, but the failure

Delinquents; ses secs. 129 and 130,

persons.

Claims by third of a registrant to submit a Questionnaire shall not destroy the right of any person to claim deferred classification in persons; see secs. respect of him and to support such claim by evidence as prescribed in sections 97 and 98 hereof.

Claim by other 97, 98.

see sec. 269.

Section 97. Limit of time within which persons other than registrant may claim registrant's deferred classification.

Every person other than the registrant who claims exemption or deferred classification of a registrant must make the claim or claims on the first page of the regisForm for claim; trant's Questionnaire or on a duplicate of the same (Form 1001-A), and must file the same, with all supporting proof, within seven days after notice to the registrant to Time limits; see answer and file his Questionnaire. In the matter of making claims and other applications, filing the proof in support thereof and noting appeals, every person shall be governed by the same rules as to time limits as the registrant himself.

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Section 98. Proof in claims made by claimant other than registrant.

In any case where a registrant has made no claim for quired by ques-exemption or deferred classification, or has failed to prove tlannaire; see sec. 191. by his answers and supporting affidavits the facts upon the basis of which some other authorized person claims exemption or deferred classification, or has failed to submit a Questionnaire, the supporting proof to be filed by such other person must embody all the facts in relation to the particular claim which are called for and required by the Questionnaire and these regulations and instructions. Section 99. Extension of time for filing claims.

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time may be extended.

Local and District Boards shall consider claims for deferred classification by or in respect of a registrant only when such claims are submitted within the time limits prescribed by these regulations, except that the Local or District Board may extend the time for filing claims and proof when a registrant or some other person in respect of a registrant shall show to the satisfaction of the Local or District Board, by affidavit evidence, that the failure to make claim for deferred classification within the prescribed time limits was due to causes other than the fault or neglect of the claimant, or was due to the fact that the claimant is able to produce material evidence bearing upon the merits of the case which would substantially affect the decision of the board, and which did not exist, or which the registrant or other claimant was Applications unable to obtain within the time prescribed. All apaled with local plications for extension of time and proof in support

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thereof must be filed with the Local Board and, in cases within the original jurisdiction of the District Board, transmitted by the Local to the District Board, together with any recommendation or finding of fact which the Local Board may desire to submit.