Physicians will render a most valuable assistance by Auxiliary or giving their services to Local Boards and to the Medical ganizations. Advisory Boards provided in section 44 hereof. Section 47. Government Appeal Agents. 104. The Governor shall designate for each Local Board a per- Appeals; see sec. son to take appeals for and on behalf of the United States. The duties of the person so designated are: To appeal from any deferred classification by a Local Board, which, in the opinion of the Appeal Agent, should be reviewed by the District Board; to care for the interests of igno- Aid to regis rant registrants, and where the decision of the Local Board trants. is against the interests of such persons, and where it appears that such persons will not take appeals, due to their own nonculpable ignorance, to inform them of their rights and assist them to enter appeals to the District Board; and to investigate and report upon matters which are Investigations; submitted for their investigation and report by Local or see sec. 118. District Boards. boards. It shall also be the duty of such Appeal Agents, where Assistance to the interests of justice may require, to suggest to the Local Board a reopening of any case; to impart to the Reopening Local Board any information which in the opinion of such cases; see sec. 139. Appeal Agent ought to be investigated; and also to make such suggestion and impart such information as the case may be to the District Board in order that the District Board may more efficiently exercise its power to instruct Local Boards to take additional proof. Additional proof; see sec. 107. Receipt of in Every registrant and, to a certain extent, every person formation in each community, is interested in the action of the individuals. Local Boards on each particular case. There will be many cases in which Local Boards have been imposed upon but in which persons affected do not desire to inform such boards of facts within their knowledge. It shall be the duty of the Government Appeal Agent to receive such information and to prepare such appeals in cases where he considers appeals to be to the interest of the Government. Section 48. County and City Councils of Defense. fense. from County and City Councils of Defense, Chambers of Councils of DoCommerce, and other civic organizations have, in many cases, offered their services to Local and District Boards in obtaining voluntary clerical service and in facilitating the duties of such boards. Local and District Boards should encourage such offers and should cooperate with such councils as far as is consistent with their duties under the law and regulations. Section 49. Duty of Police Officials of all Classes and Grades to assist Local Boards and to Ap prehend Delinquents. Delinquents; Those who fail to return the Questionnaire, or to ap- see sec. 129 et seq. pear for physical examination, or to report change of 17256°-17-3 Auxiliary ganizations. or-status, or to report for any duty, or to perform any act at the time and place required by these regulations or by directions by Local or District Boards in pursuance thereof, are guilty of a misdemeanor under section 6 of the Selective Service Law. Under authority granted in section 6 of that law, it is hereby made the duty of all Police: See Sec. police officials of the United States and of any State, or any county, municipality, or other subdivision thereof, Arrest of delin- to locate and take into custody such persons and to bring them forthwith before Local Boards to determine whether their cases shall be reported to the Federal Department witnesses; see sec. of Justice for prosecution, and to serve the summons to witnesses issued by Local or District Boards, as provided by section 9 hereof. 1, par. (o). quents; see sec. 130. 9. Summons Who are serters. to de Disposition; see sec. 140. Certificate of local board; see sec51. Where willful. offense Persons who, after induction into military service, with intent to evade such service, willfully fail to report to Local Boards for military duty, or fail to entrain for a mobilization camp, or who absent themselves from entrainment or from their parties of selected men en route to a mobilization camp, are deserters and are subject to military law. It is hereby made the duty of all such police officials to apprehend and arrest such deserters and proceed in respect of them as provided in sections 51, 130, and 140. Section 50. Rewards for the Arrest and Delivery of A reward of $50 is payable for the apprehension and delivery to a military camp, post, or station of a deserter from the National Army when the person making such delivery presents the certificate of a Local Board prescribed in section 51. Section 51. Procedure upon Arrest of a Deserter. Upon the arrest of a deserter the police official arresting him shall take him before a near-by Local Board (preferably the Local Board having jurisdiction of him), which Local Board shall immediately inquire whether his offense was willful and committed with an intent to evade military service, and if it so finds shall make and deliver to such police official a certificate to that effect and direct such police official to deliver the deserter to the nearest Form; see sec. Army camp, post, or station. The form for this certificate (Form 1021) will be found in Part X, but no printed form will be furnished. 293. Where offense not willful. If the Local Board finds that the offense was not willful and the registrant has been physically examined, the board shall forthwith send him to the proper mobilization camp. If the registrant has not been physically examined, the Local Board shall examine him physically, and if he is found to be physically qualified shall send him to the nearest mobilization camp. In either case the Local Board sending the registrant to camp shall promptly notify the Local Board of origin to furnish the papers prescribed in section 148 in respect of such registrant. If Auxiliary Section 52. Duties of Postal Authorities. authorities. or Postmasters and all postal employees shall promptly Duties of postal forward all mail of Local Boards, District Boards, and other officials connected with the administration of the Selective Service Law, bearing the frank of the Provost Marshal General. aid in securing addresses of regis They shall also give every aid to Local Boards and Postmasters to other such officials in securing the address of registrants; and furnishing and, upon request of Local Boards, postmasters shall rats. furnish to them the forwarding address of all registrants whose mail has been forwarded to an address in possession of the postal authorities, for the confidential use only of the Boards and persons charged with the administration of the Selective Service Law and these Rules and Regulations. receipt for mail ad Upon the request of the Governor of the State Post-Postmasters to masters shall receipt to Local Boards, upon a list prepared dressed to regisby the latter, for any of the notices prescribed by these trants. Regulations to be mailed by Local Boards to registrants. All such notices shall be delivered to the Post Office arranged in the order in which they appear upon such list so to be signed by the Postmaster. NOTE. The following order was issued by the Post Office Department October 12, 1917: Postmasters should exercise every effort to make delivery of letters addressed by Local or District Exemption Boards to registrants under the Selective Service Act and particularly the notices which those Boards send to registrants calling them to places of entrainment. Serious consequences ensue to a registrant who fails to respond to this latter call, as the law classifies him as a deserter, and unless an explanation is made he must be dealt with as such. it is therefore of the greatest importance that postmasters see that such notices reach the addressees if possible. Persons leaving military service. Aliens entering United States. re Persons turning to United States. Registra t i on eard; see sec. 275. PART III. REGISTRATION. Section 53. Persons subject to Registration. All persons who, on June 5, 1917, had attained the age of 21 and had not attained the age of 31 are subject to registration, except only persons in the military or naval service of the United States for the time that they are in such military or naval service. (See Note 3; Rule XII; Sec. 79.) Persons not subject to registration on account of being in the military or naval service of the United States become subject to registration and are required to register immediately upon leaving such military or naval service. Aliens who have not declared their intention to become citizens of the United States and who have entered the United States for the first time since June 5, 1917, are not subject to registration. Citizens or persons who have declared their intention to become citizens who have not hitherto registered on account of absence without the territorial limits of the United States are required to register within five days after their return to the United States. Section 54. How Registration is accomplished. Local Boards will accomplish the registration of persons subject to registration who, for any reason, have not been registered on or since June 5, 1917. RegistraCertificate; see tion shall consist in making out a registration card in duplicate (Form 1) and issuing to the registrant a registration certificate (Form 2). sec. 276. Classification list; see sec. 90. see sec. 91. Immediately upon registration, the Local Board shall enter the name of the registrant at the bottom of the Classification List, and shall furnish him a Questionnaire. When the registration is accomplished in person, Questionnaire; the notice on the first sheet of the Questionnaire shall specify its return within seven days from the date of registration; when the registration is accomplished by mail as prescribed in section 55 or from abroad as prescribed in section 56, such notice shall specify seven days plus a reasonable allowance for communication by mail. Serial numbers; Immediately upon furnishing the Questionnaire the Local Board shall (except as prescribed in section 65) forward a copy of the registration card to the Adjutant see sec. 67. Order num General of the State for assignment of a serial number Registration. (section 67). Order numbers shall be assigned to such cards as prescribed in section 69. Upon return of the Questionnaire the registrant shall be classified by the Local Board in the usual manner. Section 55. Registration by mail. bers; see sec. 69. Where person absent from The proper place for filing a registration card is the Local Board having jurisdiction over the place in which home. the registrant has his permanent home. If, for any reason, it is inconvenient for the registrant to present himself in person to such Local Board, he may accomplish his registration by applying to the Local Board nearest him and having his registration card filled out and certified by such Local Board, and himself mailing his registration card to the Local Board having jurisdiction over the place in which he has his permanent home. In such case the Local Board certifying to the registration card shall not issue a registration certificate, but the Local Board having jurisdiction over the place in which the registrant has his permanent home shall issue Registra ti o n a registration certificate upon receipt of the registration sec. 276. card. certificate; Where persons have attempted to register by mail Lost cards. and it appears that their registration cards have not reached their destination, they should promptly cause themselves to be registered as herein provided. Section 56. Registration of persons residing abroad. see Registration by consul. Designation of home. Citizens, and persons who have declared their intention to become citizens, residing abroad are not required to register, but any such citizen or person may do so by applying to the nearest American consulate to have his registration card filled out. He should in all cases designate on such card a place of permanent home, in the United States. If he has no such actual permanent home, he should designate as his permanent home a place within the United States most convenient to him. The registration card duly certified by an official or agent of the consulate should then be sent by the registrant to a Local Board in the place thus designated as his permanent home. Thereafter he shall be subject to the normal process of selection as prescribed herein, except that his physical examination may be consummated as prescribed in section 142. Upon being ordered sec. 142. by his Local Board to report for military duty he will be required to present himself for such duty in the same manner as other registered persons, except that care should be taken to send out the call in such season as will permit the registrant ample time to respond to it. When the call is so delayed by the ordinary course of mail as to make it impossible for him to comply therewith on the date specified, he may apply to his Local Board for an extension of time. ex Physical amination; see Call for duty; see sec. 157. |