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form duty.

(e) Failure by any registrant to perform any duty Failure to per prescribed by the Selective Service Law or by these Rules and Regulations, at or within the time required, is a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment for one year, and may result in loss of valuable rights and immediate induction of such registrant into military service. Failure to exer- (f) Failure of the registrant or any other person concerned to claim and exercise any right or privilege on the day or within the time authorized by these Rules and Regulations, shall be considered a waiver of such right or privilege, and shall foreclose such person from thereafter claiming the same, subject only to the privilege granted by these Rules and Regulations to apply for an extension of time.

eise right.

Duty to examine notice and

(g) All registrants and other persons are required and classification list. strictly enjoined to examine, from time to time, said notice, Form 1002, so posted by the Local Board, and the Classification List upon which said dates are to be entered, in order to be informed of the time for the performance of any duty or the exercise of any right or privilege; and it is the duty of every registrant concerning whom any notice is posted, but who for some reason has not received the Questionnaire or notice, as the case may be, to apply to his Local Board for a copy Failure to re- thereof. Failure to receive notice or Questionnaire will not excuse the registrant from performing any duty within the time limit, nor shall it be in itself ground for extension of time.

eive no excuse.

Sundays holidays ⚫luded.

and

ex

Boards may

summon

Besses.

Summons.

wit

Section 8. Computation of time.

In computing the several periods of time within which any act is required or permitted by the Selective Service Law and these Rules and Regulations to be performed by registrants and other persons, the day of the posting of notice, and Sundays and legal holidays, shall be excluded.

Section 9. Boards may summon and examine witnesses.

Every Local and District Board shall have power to summon any registrant or any other person to appear and testify as a witness before it in regard to facts, matters, and information within the knowledge of such person relating to any case pending before such Board. Such summons (Form 1003) shall be directed to the person to be produced as a witness and shall be served by Police, see sec. any of the police authorities mentioned and described in section 1, par. o hereof. Upon request of any member of a Local or District Board, it is hereby made the duty of any such police officer to serve such summons and make Compulsory at the usual return thereon. Thereupon the witness shall be compelled to appear and testify before such Local or District Board in the same manner as witnesses may be compelled to appear and testify in court. Said Local or

1, par. o.

sendance.

District Boards shall be entitled, upon summary applica- General Rules. tion, to the aid of the courts of the United States to compel such attendance and the giving of testimony.

sworn.

Every person testifying before any Local or District, Witness to be Board as herein provided shall first swear that he will tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth in answer to such questions as may be propounded to him by any member of the Board concerning any case pending before such board.

Section 10. By whom oaths may be administered.

administered.

Any oath required by these Rules and Regulations By whom oath (except oaths to persons called before Local or District Boards to give oral testimony) may be administered,

eral or State.

(1) By any Federal or State officer authorized by law omcers, Fedto administer oaths generally;

(2) By any member of any Local or District Board Member having jurisdiction of the registrant;

(3) By any Government Appeal Agent in regard to Appeal agent. any case pending before any Local or District Board

with which he is connected;

(4) By any person designated to act in the capacity Legal advisor. of legal aid or advisor to registrants; and

(5) By any postmaster within the same local jurisdic- Postmaster. tion as the registrant.

Any member of any Local or District Board may administer oaths to any persons called before such board for oral examination in regard to facts and matters relating to a case pending before it.

When the oath or oaths are administered by any of the persons named in classes 2, 3, 4, and 5 hereof there shall be no fee or charge for the same.

Section 11. Public records of District and Local
Boards.

No fee.

of

Records, public; inspection, see

All records required by these Rules and Regulations to be filed with and kept by Local and District Boards, Ad- sec. 12. jutants General, and other persons in connection with the registration, examination, selection, and mobilization of registrants under the Selective Service Law, and these regulations, shall be public records and shall be open during usual business hours for public inspection of any and all persons.

dential informa

Provided, however, That the answers of any registrant Proviso: conficoncerning the condition of his health, mental or physical, tion. in response to Series II of the questions under the head entitled "Physical Fitness," in the Questionnaire, and other evidence and records upon the same subject, and the answers of any registrant to the questions under Series X of the questions under the head entitled "Dependency" in the Questionnaire, except the names and addresses of the persons claimed to be dependent upon such registrant, shall not, without the consent of the registrant, be open

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Penalty for divulging confiden

Any person connected with the administration of the tial information. Selective Service Law and these Rules and Regulations who shall divulge or impart to any person not entitled under the foregoing paragraph to receive the same, any information contained in a record as to a registrant's physical condition, or as to his answers concerning dependency, as above provided, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment not to exceed one year.

Use of confidential records

court.

lic, see sec. 11.

in

The portions of such records as are hereinbefore held to be confidential shall not, without the consent of the registrant, be produced and published in response to any subpoena or summons of any court, except that they may be so produced and published for the purpose of being used in the prosecution of the registrant, or of any person acting in collusion with such registrant, for perjury or for any violation of the provisions of the Selective Service Law or of these Rules and Regulations. Section 12. Manner in which public may inspect records.

Whenever any registrant or other person (except one of the classes of persons named in the proviso of the foregoing Section 11 of these Rules and Regulations) Records, pub-applies to a Local or District Board to inspect any of the records of such boards, such registrant or other person shall not be permitted to search through such records, but it shall be the duty of members or clerks of Local and District Boards and other persons having the custody of such records, to discover, open, and point out to the registrant or other person, the portion of the record containing the information requested by such person so applying; subject to the limitations as to disclosures provided in the foregoing Section 11.

Oath.

Section 13. No substitution in favor of drafted men.

The Selective Service Law strictly prohibits the acceptance of substitutes for men selected for military duty. The obligation to render military service is personal and can not be transferred.

Section 14. Oaths of members of boards and other persons.

Before entering upon the discharge of their duties all of the following-named persons charged with duties in the administration of the Selective Service Law and of

these Rules and Regulations who have not heretofore General Rules. done so shall take the oath which is set out as Form

1033 in Part X hereof, namely:

whom.

All members and clerks of Local and District Boards, Required
Disbursing Officers, Inspectors, additional examining
physicians, members of Medical and Legal Advisory
Boards and Government Appeal Agents.

The oath hereby prescribed shall be taken before some officer mentined in section 10 hereof and shall be filed in the office of the Adjutant General of the State.

Section 15. Signing of orders, reports, and certificates of boards.

of

Taken before

whom, see sec. 10.

any member.

All orders, summons, notices, reports, and certificates Signature issued by authority of any Local or District Board may be signed or certified by any member of such board. Section 16. Entries on forms and records.

stamp.

by

All entries made by Local or District Boards on any of the forms, notices, and records provided for by these Rules and Regulations shall be made with pen and ink of Ink or rubber black color unless other color is prescribed by the regulations, except that rubber stamps may, and where they can be obtained, should be used in preference to pen and ink in entering dates, designations of Local or District Boards, and other entries which require repetition of the same date or word or phrase.

Section 17. Minute Books of Local and District
Boards.

Minute Book.

Each District and Local Board shall maintain a Minute Contents Book (Form 1004) which shall contain a brief record of the proceedings of all meetings of said Board.

The minutes of said Board must contain, however, the following:

(1) Date and hour of each meeting and hour of adjournment.

(2) Names of members of Boards present at such meetings and period of time devoted to work of Local Board by each member.

(3) The character of work performed by each Local Board at such meeting, whether classification or mobilization; if work of Local Board was of classification, the minutes shall state the number of cases classified or examined.

(4) The number of hours devoted by examining physicians to the work of examining registrants during the day.

of

From the minutes of such Local or District Boards, the Chief Clerk of each of said Boards shall prepare the pay vouchers for each member and examining physician of Pay vouchers: such board and shall enter thereon the following certificate: "I hereby certify that the services herein stated

see sec. 213.

General Rules. were rendered to the Government of the United States, as shown in the Minute Book of

Inspectors: see Bec. 31.

Local Boards.

District Beards.

boards disquali

Board

No voucher shall be paid by the Disbursing Officer of the State unless the requirements of this section are fully complied with.

Every such Minute Book shall be open to the inspection of auditors or inspectors at all times.

Section 18. Designation of Local and District
Boards.

State of

When there is but one Local Board having jurisdiction in a county, or city of over thirty thousand population, or other subdivision in a State, it shall be designated and known as the Local Board for (Here insert name of subdivision) of Should there be more than one Local Board having jurisdiction in any county, city of over thirty thousand, or other subdivision within a State, the several Local Boards therein shall be designated and known as the Local Board for division No. (name of subdivision) of In the case of a State, such as Massachusetts, which is divided into divisions, such divisions shall be designated and known as Division No. 1, No. 2, and so on, and the Local Board in each of such divisions shall be designated and known as the Local Board for division No. 1 or No. 2 and so on, State of

(etc.) for the
State of

Where there is but one District Board in a State it shall be designated as the District Board for the State of

In any State where there is more than one district and but one District Board is established in each district, the several District Boards shall be designated and known as the District Board for the District of

the State of

Where there is more than one District Board in a Federal judicial district, the respective divisions of such district shall be designated and known as Division No. 1, Division No. 2, and so on, and the several District Boards therein shall be designated and known as District Board for Division No. 1, No. 2, and so on, of the District of the State of

The District Board for the city of New York shall be designated and known as the District Board for the City of New York, State of New York.

Section 19. Members of Local and District Boards disqualified to act on certain claims.

Members of No member of a Local or District Board shall particifed when related pate in the hearing or decision of any claim for exemption to registrant. or deferred classification, or as to physical qualification, of any registrant who is related to him either by blood or marriage nearer than a second cousin.