The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1917-05-24

AIRY absence from actual place OF leg
, residence Of any person liable to rel
istration as provided herein, such rel
) istraton may be made by mail und'
regulations TO be prescribed by II
: President.
4 Heavy Penalties for Falsehood or
, Failure
:, Section 6. That the President
hereby authorized to utilize the SCI
vice of any or all departments and an
or all officers or agents of the Unite
States and of the several States, Tel
ritories, and the District Of Columbia
and sub divisions thereof, in the exc
cution of this act, and all officers an
agents Of the United States and of tn
several States, Territories and sub-di
visions, thereof, and of the District o
Columbia, and all persons designate,
or appointed under regulations pre-
scribed by the President whether sucl
appointments are made by the Presi
dent himself or by the governors o.
some other officer of any State o.
Territory, to perform any duty in th'
execution of this act, are hereby re
quired to perform such duty as thu
President shall order or direct, and al
such officers and agents and persons
so designated or appointed shall here.
by have full authority for all acts
done by them in the execution of this
act by the direction Of the President
Correspondence in the execution of this
act may be carried in penalty envelopes
bearing the frank Of the War Depart
ment. Any person charged as herein
provided with the duty of carrying in
to effect airy of the provisions of this
act or the regulations made or direc-
tions given hereunder who shall fail
or neglect to perform such duty; and
any person charged with such duty or
having and exercising any authority
under said act, regulations, or direc-
tions, who shall knowingly make or be
party to the making of any false or
incorrect registration, physical exam
ination, exemption, enlistment, enroll
ment, or muster; and any persons who
shall make or be part to the making
of any false statement or certificate
as to the fitness or liability of himself
or any other person for service under
the provisions of this act, or regula-
tions made by the President thereun-
der, or otherwise evades, or aids an
other to evade the requirements of
this act or Of said regulations, or who,
in any manner, shall fail or neglect
fully to perform any duty required of
him in the execution of this act, shall,
if not subject to military law, be
guilty of a misdemeanor and upon
conviction in the District Court of the
United States having jurisdiction
thereof, be punished by imprison-
nen for not more than one year, or,
f subject to military law, shall be
,ried by court-martial and suffer such
punishment as court-martial may di-
rect.
Now, therefore, l Woodrow Wilson,
President of the United States do call
lpon the governor of each of the sew
raj States and Territories, the board
Of commissioners of the District of
Columbia and all officers and agents
If the several States and Territories,
If the District of Columbia and of the
and municipalities therein to
perform certain duties in the execu-
ion of the foregoing law, which duties
will be. communicated to them directly
n regulations of even date herewith.
June 5th is Registration Day
And / do further proclaim and give
notice to all persons subject to regis
ration in the several States and in the
District Of Columbia in accordance
With the above law that the time and
,lace Of such registration shall be be-
ween Z a. M, and 9 p. M, on the
fifth day Of June, 1917, at the regis
ration place in the precincts wherein
hey have their permanent homes.
those who shall have attained their
wenty-frst birthday and who shall
ot have attained their thirty first
irthday on or before the day here
AIMED are required to register, ex-
epting only officers and enlisted men
+ the Regular Army, the Navy, the
iarine Corps, and the national Guard
nd Naval Militia while in the service I
the United States, and officers in ;
he Officers Reserve Corps and enlist
d men in the enlisted Reserve Corps [
'hilc in active service. In the territor- I
IS of Alaska, Hawaii and Porto Rico
day for registration will be named
later proclamation.
And do charge those who through s
ckness shall be unable to present t
,cmselyes for registration that they
oply on or before the day of regis
alton 10 the county clerk Of the