The Brunswick news., 1917-05-10
NASH |NSTRUC!S
STATE SHER|FFS
ON CONSCR|PT|ON
In All Cities Less Than Thirty
Thousand These Will
Have Charge.
MAYORS OF THE BIG CITIES
Only Five Places in Georgia
Where the Cities Have P0pu=
latiOns of More Than Thirty
Thousand.

In order that when the selectiyf
conscription bill finally becomes :
law there may be no unnecessary dc
lay in providing the required mach
inery for taking the registration OF
all Georgians between the ages to be
hXed, Adjutant General j. Van Hol
Nash, designated by the governor tc
be the state supervisor of registra
tion, Tuesday mailed out letters tC
the sheriffs in every county acouaint
ing them with the registration plans
of the war department.
The sheriffs will head the regis
tration boards in each county ant
the other county members of the
boards will be county clerks anC
county physicians In each militia
district registrars will look after the
registrations. These registrars will
be named by the sheriffs in their re
spectiye counties.
In cities of 10000 population and
over, the mayors will be the head
of the registration boards and the
xegular election machinery will be
emNoyed for the registrations. There
are but five such cities in Georgia
Atlanta, Savannah, Augusta, Macon
Columbus.
General Nash's letter of explana
, tion to the sheriffs follows:
You are hereby notified that the
adjutant general, state of Georgia
has been designated by the governo,
to have general supervision of the
military registration to be taken TO,
the federal government, and that &
complete census of all persons sub
Ject to military duty will be made as
soon as the selective draft bill now
pending in congress becomes law.
'1nasmuch as the newspapers have
stated that the registration will be
taken by local authorities under the
supervision of the sheriffs. the GOV
ernor thought it not amiss to give
you brief statement of the plan tc
be pursued in order that you might
he looking forward to putting the
plans in operation and to be in posi-
tion to answer some of the questions
that will be asked of you.
"The plans are only tentative. but
have been outlined by the secretary
of war and are complete for present
purposes.
"rhe war department will ask the
governor to name local county boards
OF registration to be comprised of the
sheriff and possibly two other coun
ty officers, such as the clerk and
county physician.
"The county board then will have
to appoint registrars Zone or more as
necessary for each voting precinct
in their respective county If one
registrar is appointed, ther that reg
istrar may get one or two voluntee,
registrars in his militia district tc
aid him.
THE war department will mail nee
essary registration blanks and in
structions direct to the sheriff for his
county. s-
THE president will name q date or
which registration will begin. About
five days will be allowed for every
person subject to register at his home
oting precinct Tor if in city, at his
home ward. Every male person with
IN the ages fixed by congress will be
required to register. No exemptions
of any character will be allowed
This includes persons of all colors
defects, exemptions, etc. No one
within the age limits will be excused
for absence, sickness, defect. or any
other reason. Everybody within the
age limits must register.
Tho precinct registrars will be ad
vised as e how to return the results
20 the coNhy registration board. The
nDunty board will then be advised as
20 how to consolidate the returns anH
return same TO the adjutant general
ryaf the state OF Georgia, who will in
b