Section 48. County and City Councils of Defense.

County and City Councils of Defense, Chambers of Commerce, 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 Apprehend Delinquents. Those who fail to return the Questionnaire, or to appear for physical examination, or to report change of 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 Beards in pursuance thereof, are guilty of a misdemeanor under section 6 of the Selective Service Law. (See sec. 129.) Under authority granted in section 6 of that law, it is hereby made the duty of all police officials (see sec. 1, par. (0).), of the United States and of any State, or any county, municipality, or other subdivision thereof, to locate and take into custody (see sec. 130), such persons and to bring them forthwith before Local Boards to determine whether their cases shall be reported to the Federal Department of Justice for prosecution, and to serve the summons upon witnesses issued by Local or District Boards, as provided by section 9 hereof.

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 130 and 140.

Section 50. Rewards for the Arrest and Delivery of Deserters.

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 140.

Note 1.-Members of Local Boards and Clerks connected therewith may not participate in or claim the benefit of any reward or portion of any reward paid by the Government for the apprehension and delivery of deserters from the United States Army. (Telegram A-3438, January 21, 1918.)

For regulations regarding the payment of rewards for the apprehension of deserters, see section 140, VI (a).

Section 51. Procedure upon Arrest of a Deserter.

Rescinded. (Circular Letter August 12, 1918. See section 140.)

Section 52. Duties of Postal Authorities.

Postmasters and all postal employees shall promptly 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.

They shall also give every aid to Local Boards and other such officials in securing the address of registrants; and, upon request of Local Boards, postmasters shall 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.

Upon the request of the Governor of the State Postmasters shall receipt to Local Boards, upon a list prepared by the latter, for any of the notices prescribed by these 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 1.-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.

PART III.

REGISTRATION.

Section 53. Persons subject to registration.

All male persons who on September 12, 1918, had attained their eighteenth birthday and had not attained their forty-sixth birthday are subject to registration. The only exceptions are:

(a) Persons who, prior to September 12, 1918, have registered under the terms of the act approved May 18, 1917, or under the terms of the public resolution of Congress approved May 20, 1918, whether called for service or not;

(b) Officers and enlisted men of the Regular Army; officers commissioned in the Army of the United States, and men of the forces drafted, under the provisions of the act approved May 18, 1917; officers and enlisted men of the National Guard while in the service of the United States; and the officers of the Officers' Reserve Corps and enlisted men in the Enlisted Reserve Corps while in the service of the United States:

(e) Officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps and officers and enlisted and enrolled men of the Naval Reserve Force and Marine Corps Reserve while in the service of the United States; and

(d) Diplomatic representatives, technical attachés of foreign embassies and legations, consuls general, consuls, vice consuls and consular agents of foreign countries, residing in the United States who are not citizens of the United States.

Persons not subject to registration solely on account of being in the military or naval service of the United States, as defined in subparagraphs (b) and (c) hereof, become subject to registration and are required to register immediately upon leaving such military or naval

service.

Citizens of the United States or persons who have declared their intention to become citizens of the United States who do not register on account of absence from the territorial limits of the United States are required to register within five days after their return to the United States.

An alien who enters the United States for the first time after September 12, 1918, is not subject to registration, unless he declares his intention to become a citizen of the United States, or unless a later proclamation of the President requires persons of his age to register. Section 54. How registration is accomplished other than on Registration Day.

Every person who registers on or after September 12, 1918, pursuant to provisions of the proclamation by the President of August 31, 1918. shall be considered as a registrant of the "class of September, 1918," irrespective of the date on which he was required to register.

(a) The provisions of "Registration Regulations No. 3" shall be followed by Local Boards in accomplishing the registration of persons subject thereto, who, for any reason, register after September 12, 1918, and on or before the date to be hereafter fixed by the Provost Marshal General after which registration cards are not to be assigned serial numbers in accordance with "Registration Regulations No. 3."

(b) The following procedure shall be observed by Local Boards in accomplishing the registration of all persons subject thereto, who, for any reason, have not been registered on or before the date to be hereafter fixed by the Provost Marshal General after which registration cards are not to be assigned serial numbers in accordance with "Registration Regulations No. 3."

Registration shall consist in making out a registration card in duplicate (Form 1, red, sec. 275, p. 219) and issuing to the registrant a registration certificate (Form 68, sec. 276, p. 221).

Immediately upon registration, the Local Board shall enter the name of the registrant at the bottom of the Classification List for the Third Registration, to be prepared after the assignment of order numbers, and shall furnish him a Questionnaire, provided he is within the ages prescribed by the President as immediately liable for classification and military service. When the registration is accomplished in person, 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.

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 General of the State for assignment of a serial number (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 54A. Registration of persons who become 18 years of age after September 12.

The Selective Service Law, as amended, provides that the President may, at such intervals as he may desire, from time to time require all male persons who have attained the age of 18 years since the last preceding date of registration and on or before the next date set for registration by proclamation by the President, except such persons as are exempt from registration, to register in the same manner and subject to the same requirements and liabilities as those previously registered under the terms of the law, upon the issuance of a proclamation by the President requiring the registration of such persons. Later regulations will prescribe the method and manner in which the registration of such persons shall be accomplished. Section 55. Registration by mail.

The proper place for filing a registration card is the office of the Local Board having jurisdiction over the area in which 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 a registration certificate upon receipt of the registration card.

Where persons have attempted to register by mail and it appears that their registration cards have not reached their destination, they should promptly cause themselves to be registered.

Section 56. Registration of persons residing abroad.

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, except as otherwise provided by regulations prescribed by the Government of the United States in respect of its citizens in any country with which the United States has concluded a treaty providing for the compulsory military service of citizens or subjects of either country residing in the territory of the other. 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 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 as otherwise prescribed in these regulations. 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.

Note 1.-On account of impossibility of communication and impracticability of transporting such registrants to the United States, Local Boards will take no action on grounds of delinquency against any registrant who on the day fixed by proclamation by the President for the registration of persons of his age, was in China or Japan and registered by mail or agent and has not since that time personally reported to the Local Board. In case any such persons have been reported to The Adjutant General of the Army as deserters a statement should be forwarded by the Draft Executive to The Adjutant General of the Army to be considered by him in deciding whether or not such registrants should be classed as deserters. (Telegram B-1125, May 25, 1918.)