The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-29
MARRIED MEN IN CAMP MAY YET
 BE DISCHARGED
Technical Ruling Issued From Provost Generals
 Office Covers Gases.

upon cases uncovered in Bridgeport, for the discharge from draft service of men upon whom such service would fall as a particular hardship and who | have been taken under the military | law through error or non-culpable ig- norance of the registrant.
 Although first applied ito Bridge | port, through orders Of the third dis | tric board, an order from General Crowder to Governor Marcus Hol- comb, makes the new ruling general in it's application to the entire coun- try.
 j. The law makes specific subdivisions of men who have not yet officially | been taken into the army by certified | tion of their names for service; and those whose cases are upon appeal to the local boards.
 Both men in Camp Devens and those awaiting decision of the boards here are affected. There are several divisions of the cases that will come under possible appeal and great care in the method of procedure should be taken by persons desiring to have their husbands, sons or other sole support exempted. The methods to be pursued in each specific case follow:
 l. A man is inducted into military service from any after the day and hour specified by the local board or the adjutant general of the state for him to report for military duty.
 This general class divides itself in- to two special classes.
 (a) Where the person has been cer- tified by the local district board on form 146 as having been called by local board and not exempted or discharged, but has not yet been cer- tified hack from the district to the local board in accordance, with sec ton two, mobilization regulations.
 In case "A,'' the local board may reopen the case upon it's own motion
 or upon request of the adjutant gen. eral subject to the condition that the
 local board shall mmediately notify the district board that it has evtend-
 ed the. time for filing proof and has re-opened the case.
 (b) Where the person has been cer- titled from the district to the local
 board as selected for military service. but the date specified by, the local board for induction in the military serice has not yet arrived or where the local board has ont specified the
 date for induction into military ser- vice. f
 In case G1Ln0E Lu0 lOCctl OT LIlS district board may reopen the case upon receiving permission to do so | from the adjutant general of the state, or5 upon request from the adjutant
 general of the state, and the local | board may defer orders into military
 service pending receipt of permission
 from the adjutant general. In case 1.-the adjutant general So requests. or grants permission he will notify both I the local andsdfsfriot Bdard.;a s.9 @ l Rule After Induction ,f l IT. A man already inducted into military serice canont be discharged | therefrom under authority of the se- | lective service law but he can be dis
 charged by the secretary of war un- der his plenary authority to discharge | men from military service. In the
 cases of hardship which we are now
 considering, discharge from military service may be granted on the ground that the exemption or discharge from | draft should have been granted. The military authorities cannot conven- iently review. the action. of the selec- tive service system on the question .of exemptions or discharges and, it will
 be of great convenience for the miM- 1 tary authorities to have the decision
 of the local and the district boards on the question of whether the exemption or discharge should have been grant ed originally. To obtain this decfs-
 ion the method prescribed below will be used, Cases in this general class also fall. into two special classes. +. (a) Where the person has never
 reported to the local board at all anG
 has been certified to the adjutant gen. eral of the state on form 146 and has
 been ordered by the adjutant genera to report for military duty and' is thu. inducted into the military service.
 In case "A'' the adjutant genera
 of the state may withhold entry oi the name of the registrant from form 146b and may request the proper lo
 cal board to reopen the case. The To- } cal board should then reopen the case pass upon its merits and certify it tt the district board, all in the norma manner as though 1t had Jurisdiction to discharge. Similarly, the distric
 board should pass upon the case. | : the exemption or discharge is refused the district board will not enter thu name on 164. but will notify the adju : tant general of the state of its actiol : and the adjutant general will sent l'the man to the proper mobilization CdHlp ulTcCl UT VIII OTQST IllIll cO IO port to his local board for transporta ton as seems most convenient. In cas, the exemption or discharge is granted : the local board will not deliver tn
 discharge certificate to the registrar but will send it to the adjutant gener : al of the state who will forward it t. the adjutant general of the army witl the request that the man shall be dis charged from military service by tn secretary of war on the ground tha } his Induction into military service wa consummated through error There upon, the adjutant general of tn army will order the discharge of tn
 man from military service and vii forward the discharge to the ad1utan general of the state for delivery to tn registrant.
 , Called and Sent to Camp r (b) Where the man has been calle'
 to report for military duty byfa loca f board and sent ito the mobflizatiol camp.
 In case 'sB'' either the local boar or the military authorities at the mo bilization camp may request of tn adtutant general of the state permis
 sion for the local board to reopen tn : case for the purpose of determinin . whether or not the exemption or dis