Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-08-01
COOPER CENT OF
COUNTY QUOTAS
TO BE CALLED
Close Record. Will be Kept
Of Every Man Who is
Examined.

Bismarck, Aug. 1.-Henceforth, ac-
cording to special instructions wired
to the local exemption boards from
the adjutant generals office Monday
night, members will be excused from
service on these boards only for the
most urgent reasons. BY section six
of the selectiye service law persons
designated to perform this service are
as effectively drafted for this duty as
are the registrants who are selected
for military service, orders the state.
In case Of refusal to r%e-enter service
after the governor has passed upon
and rejected the request for release,
the case is to be reported tolthe near
est representative Of the federal de-
partment Of Justice. These i~nstruc-
tons do no apply to the members Of
boards who are to be removed under
instructions from the war department.
Local boards are required to keep
q docket Of every case called, and
upon this docket must be noted every
action taken in respect to the Isl
Final Credits.
No board will receive final credit
for quotas for any selected man until
word has been received from military
authority at the rendezvous or mob
ilization camp that the man has been
accepted into the military service of
the United States.
Call 200 Per Cent.
Some men passed by the local
boards will be exempted or discharg-
ed on appeal to the district board,
and some will be rejected at the mob
1lization camp. The number of per-
sons passed by local boards, who will
be discharged by district boards or at
mobilization camps. is tentatively esti-
mated at 10 per cent Of those passed
by local boards. Therefore the local
boards should continue to call men
parently filled their quota, with 10
per cent additional. Local boards
have been order to call 200 per cent
Of their quota for examination,
By the seventh day after this call IL
sent out all claims for exemption as to
discharges Of men called will be filed
with the local board.
Later Calls.
BY examining the number and char
acter of these claims and by consid-
ering the number Of persons rejected
physically, the board can roughly es-
innate the number Of men that it will
be necessary to cail@to IN their. quota
Immediately after making this esti-
mate the board should send out a
call computed on experience of the
first call. This new call should be
made for enough men to complete 110
per cen of the quota.
Passport Plans.
The state department will issue
passports to persons subject to draft
only when the application is accom-
panied by a permit from the provost
marshal general to leave the country
Until August s applications for per.
r,'+s will continue to be made to THU
office, but after that date such ap,
plications shall be made to the loca
boards. If applicant is held for imth
itary service, the district board will
refuse passport unless convinced
that the absence will. be merely tenn.
porary and that the applicants mum,
Der is SO far down the list that he
could not be included in the presenr
draft. II the applicant for passport
appears for examination and Is ex.
empted, the war department has mt
objection to the issuance of a pass,
port. No passports are required by
the state, department to go to Canada
but persons subject to draft who at,
tempt to cross the line may be sub.