Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-08-09
CURDS EXEMPTION
OF MARRIED men
Not Liable if Relatives viii Sup.
port Wives
CONTINUED SALARY A BAR
Where Employers Agree to Pay Them,
Dependency Claims Will Be
Thrown Out

Marshal General, last might issued
rules of far-reaching consequence to
restrict the action of local exemption
board on claims for discharge from
the draft because of alleged depend
ency.
The rules, which were telegraphed
TO the Governors of the States, follow:
Under Presidential regulations the
term dependent for support has
given rise to several further ques-
tions of principle affecting large
numbers of persons.
THE general basis for ruling upon
such questions should be the spirit
and purpose OF the act in providing
for such discharge, wherever the
terms of the act and of the regula-
tions are not in themselves conclu-
sive. The act authorizes the President
to discharge wherever the parties
drafted are in a status with respect
to persons dependent upon them for
support which renders their exclusion
or discharge advisable
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"Such dependency ordinarily rend-
ers discharge advisable, because since
the drafted person loses his civil in
come and thus loses his mean of sup
port, the wife is left without support,
and this lack of support is the effect
which the act aims to avoid But
wherever such effect does not in fact
follow, and the wife is not left reason
ably adequate support, but will re-
ceive such support from other
sources, there is no real dependency
rendering discharge advisable.
THE following classes of cases are
within this ruling
"A WIFE AND CHILDREN.
Il. Where the parents or other rel
ative of the wife or husband are able,
ready, and willing to provide ade-
quate support for her (and children il
any, during the absence of the hus-
band.
"2. Where the wife owns land
which has produced income by the
husbands labor, but which could with
reasonable certainty be rented, during
his absence, to other persons so as
to produce an adequate support
Payments by Employers.
80 Where there exists some ar
rangement by which the salary or
wage of the husband is continued, in
whole or in part, by third persons,
being employers or insurers or others,
either alone or with an allotment of
his soldiers pay, or with other def
mite income, will furnish reasonably
adequate support.
OTHER DEPENDENTS.
Il Where in one of the foregoing
ways a reasonably adequate support
is provided for widowed mother,
infirm parents, or orphan child under
sixteen years, of son, brother, or
father called into service.
Under Presidential regulations
providing that any certificate of dis
charge may be withdrawn, modified,
or renewed by the local board the
board is authorized to reopen any
claim of exemption already passed
upon and still awaiting disposition on
appeal to the district board, for the
purpose of receiving any affidavits or
making other inquiries relative to de-
pendency as defined in the present
rulings, and the local board shall
transmit to the district board such
affidavits and its own minute thereon,
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"The foregoing ruling are calculat-
ed to carry out the spirit and terms
of the act and to enable patriotic men
to remain in the military service of
their country wherever the burden Of
support hitheto carried by them alone
is in a position to be distributed for
a time among others who are patri-
otically ready to make in this manner
their contribution to military serv-
ice by setting another man free to en-
ter the army"
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