The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-05-31
National Registration Day June ST.
Proclamation by President.

/ act, regulations, or directions, who
shall knowingly make or be party to
the making of false or incorrect re-
gistration, physical examination, ex-
emption, enlistment, enrolment, or
muster; and any person who shall
make or be party 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-
tons made by the president thereun-
der, or otherwise evades or aids ano-
Their 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
not subject to military law, be guilty
OF a misdemeanor, and upon convic-
ton in the district court of the United
States having jurisdiction thereof, be
punished by Imprisonment for not
more than one year, or, if subject to
military law, shall be tried by court,
martial and suffer such punishment as
court martial may direct
Call Upon State Officials.
Now, therefore, l, Woodrow Wilson,
president of the United States, do call
upon the governor of each of the sew
eral states and territories, the board
of commissioners of the District of
Columbia, and all officers and agents
of the several states and territories,
| of the District of Columbia, and of
the counties and municipalities there
in to perform certain duties in the ex-
ecution of the foregoing law, which
duties will be communicated to them
directly in regulations of even date
herewith.
Fixes Date for Registration.
And l do further proclaim and give
notice to all persons subject to regis
tration in the several states and in the
District of Columbia in accordance
with the above law, that the time and
place of such registration shall be be-
tween Z a. m. and 3 p. M. on the fifth
day of June, 1917, at the registration
place in the precinct wherein they
have their permanent homes. Those
who shall have attained their twenty
first birthday and who shall not have
attained their thirty first birthday on
lor before the day here named are re-
CURED to register excepting only Off
GERS and enlisted men of the regular
army, the navy, the marine corps and
the national guard and naval militia
while in the service of the United
States, and officers in the officers re-
serve corps and enlisted men in the
enlisted reserve corps while in active
service. In the territories of Alaska,
Hawaii, and Porto Rico day for re-
gistration. will be named in a later
proclamation.
Absences Must Register.
And / do charge those who through
sickness shall be unable to present
themselves for registration that they
apply on or before the day of regis
tration to the county clerk of the
county where they may be for instruc-
lions as to how they may be regis
tered by agent. Those who expect to
be absent on the day named from the
counties in which they have their per-
manent homes may register by mail,
but their mailed registration cards
must reach the places in which they
have their permanent homes by the
day named herein. They should APP
ply as soon as practicable to the coun-
| ty clerk of the county wherein they
may be for instructions as to how
they may accomplish their registra-
tons by mail. In case such persons
as, through sickness or absence, may
be unable to present themselves per-
sonally for registration shall be So
ijourning in cities of over 10000 popul-
alton, they shall apply to the city
clerk of the city wherein they may
be sojourning rather than to the clerk
of the county. The clerks Of coun-
ties and of cities of over 10000 popula-
ton in which numerous applications
| from the sick and from non-residents
are expected are authorized to estab-
fish such sub agencies and to employ
and deputize such clerical force as