Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-11

force hereby authorized. ALI persons
drafted into hereby authorized as
members of the National Guard on
April i, 1917, or who have since said
date entered the military service OF
the United States from any such
State, Territory, District or subdi-
vision either as members of the regu-
lar army or the National Guard. All
persons drafted into the service OF
the United States and ali officers ac-
cepting commissions in the forces
herein provided for shall, from the
date of said draft or acceptance, be
subject to the laws and regulations
governing the regular army, except
as to promotions, so tar as such laws
and regulations are applicable to per-
sons whose permanent retention in
the military service on the active or
retired list is not contemplated by
existing law, and those drafted shall
I-be required to serve Tor the period
of the. existing emergency unless
sooner discharged: Provided, That
the President is authorized to raise
and maintain by voluntary enlist
ment or draft, as herein provided,
special and technical troops as he
may deem necessary, and to embody
them into organizations and to officer
them as provided in the third para
graph of section l and section 9 OF
this act.
Organizations of the forces herein
provided for, except the regular
army. shall, as far as the interests of
the service permit, be composed OF
men who come and of officers who
are appointed from the same State
or locality.
Sec. 9. No bounty shall be paid to
induce any person to enlist in the
military service of the United States,
and no person liable 10 military SER
vice shall hereafter be permitted or
allowed to furnish a substitute for
such service; nor shall any suosti-
tute be received, enlisted or enrolled
in the military service of the United
States, and no such person shall be
permitted to escape such service or
to be discharged therefrom prior to
the expiration of his, term of service
by the payment of money or any
other valuable thing whatsoever as
consideration for his release from
military service or liability thereto
Sec. 4. That the Vice-President OF
the United States, the officers, legis-
lative, executive and judicial, of
the United States and of the several
states, territories and the District OF
Columbia, regular or duty ordained
ministers of religion, students who at
the time of the approval of this act
are preparing for the ministry in
recognized theological or divinity
schools, and all persons in the mill
tary and naval service of the United
States shall be exempt from the Sc
lective draft herein prescribed, and
nothing in this act contained shall
be construed to require or compel
any person to serve in any of the
forces herein provided for who is
found to be q member of any we'll
recognized religious sect or organi-
NnaTaI M
existing and whose existing creed or
principles forbid it's members to par
ticipate in war in any form and
whose religious convictions are
against war or participation therein
in accordance with the creed or prin-
! ciples of said religious organization,
| but no person so exempted snail be
| exempted from service in any capa-
city that the President shall declare
! to be noncombatant; and the Presi-
dent is hereby authorized to exclude
or discharge from said selective
draft and from the draft under the
second paragraph of section one
| hereof, or to draft for partial mill
tarys service only from those liable
to draft as in this act provided, per-
sons of the following classes: Coun-
ty and municipal Officials, custom
house clerks, persons employed by
/
sion of the mails, artificers and
workmen employed in the armories,
arsenals and navy yards of the
| United States and such other per-
sons employed in the service OF the
United States as the President may
designate. pilots. mariners, actually
employed in the sea service of any
citizen or merchant within the
| United States, persons engaged in
industries, including agriculture,
found to be necessary to the main
tenance of the military establish
ment or the effective operation of
the military forces or the mainten-
ance of national interest during the
emergency; those in a status with
respect of persons dependent upon
them for support which renders
their exclusion or discharge advisa-
BILE, and those found to be physically
or morally deficient. No exemption
or exclusion shall continue when a
cause therefor no longer exists: Pro-
vided that notwithstanding the ex-
emptions enumerated therein, each
state, territory and the District OF
Columbia shall be required to sup
ply its quota in the proportion that
it's population bears to the total
population of the United States.
The President ls hereby author
ized, in his discretion, to create and
establish throughout the several
states and subdivisions thereof an6
J in the territories and the District OF
! Columbia local boards, and where
in his discretion, practicable and de
sirable, there shall be created anC
: established one such local board IL
each county or similar subdivision ii
each state, and one for approximate
ly each thirty thousand of popula
, ton in each city of thirty thousant
| population or over, according to tn
last census taken or estimates fur
= nished by the Bureau of Census o
the Department of Commerce. Sucl
) boards shall be appointed by tn
President, and shall consist of thre
or more members, none of whom
shall be connectco with the mill
. tary establishment, to be chosel
. from among the local authorities o
. such subdivisions Or from other citi
zens residing in the subdivision o
area in which the respective board
. will have jurisdiction under the rule
. and regulations prescribed by tn
President. Such boards shall hav
power within their respective juris
dictions to hear and determine, sub
I ject to review as hereinafter pro
Vided, all questions of exemption un
der this act, and all questions o
claims for including or dischargin
individuals or classes of individual
from the selective draft, which shal
I be made under rules and regulation
prescribed by the President, except
any and every question or claim 70
including or excluding or discharg
ing persons or classes of person
! tho caIectiya draft iIndar N