Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-08-17
Governors Proclamation Of July Is,
1917, Declaring Law Operative
On And After August
20, 1917.
STATE OF MARYLAND.
Executive Department.

MdTglduus convened III EANEdbAuAuaA
Session in June, 1917, by Chapter 3s
of the Acts of said Session, provided
that whenever, because of the exist
ence of a state of war, the Governor
of Maryland determines that il Is
necessary. for the protection and well
fare OF the people of the State. that
all able-bodied male persons. between
eighteen and fifty years of age, in
elusive. within the State. of the de-
scription and with the exceptions
hereinafter mentioned, be employed
in occupations carried on by the
State, the counties or the City of Bal
timore, or any of their agencies. or be
employed in occupations carried on
by private persons, firms or corpora
ton. whether agricultural. industrial
or otherwise, and which occupations
the Governor finds to be essential for
the protection and welfare of the
people of this State and the United
States. and also finds that such oc-
equations cannot be carried on as the
protection and welfare of the people
of this State and of the United States
require without resort TO said Act,
that then the Governor shall be au-
thorized, by proclamation, to require
every able-bodied male person be-
tween eighteen and fifty years of age
inclusive, within the State, with the
exceptions hereinafter mentioned, not
then or thereafter regularly or con-
tinuously employed or engaged in any
lawful and useful business, occupa-
ton, trade or profession of any kind
to register his name, address, age and
any other information which the Gov
ernor shall require, with the Clerk OF
the Circuit Court or the county in
which such person may be, or with
the Clerk of the Superior Court OF
Baltimore City, if such person be in
Baltimore City, to the end that such
persons may be assigned to work, al
! occupations of the character afore-
said in the manner and upon the
terms provided by said Act; and
Whereas, A state of war does now
exist between the Government of the
United States and the Imperial Ger
man Government, and because of the
existence of such state of war, / do
determine that it is necessary, for the
protection and welfare of the people
OF the state, that all able-bodied male
persons, between eighteen and fifty
years of age, inclusive, within the
State, with the exceptions hereinafter
mentioned, who, on and after the goth
day of August, 1917, are not regular
ly or continuously employed or en-
gagged in any lawful and useful bust
ness, occupation, trade or profession
of any kind, shall be required to work
at occupations carried on by the
State, the counties or the City of Bal
timore, or any of their agencies, or
shall be employed In occupations car
ried on by private persons, firms or
corporations, whether agricultural,
industrial or otherwise, which occu-
pations are essential for the protec-
ton and welfare of the people of this
State and the United States, and
which cannot be carried on as the
protection and welfare of the people
Of this State and of the United States
require without resort to said Act.
Now. Therefore, /, Emerson c. Har-
rington. Governor of Maryland, by
virtue of the authority conferred up
on me as aforesaid by the said Act
of Assembly, do hereby require every
able-bodied male person between
eighteen and fifty years of age, inclu-
sive, within the State, with the excep-
tons hereinafter mentioned, who, on
and after the 10th day of August, 1917,
is not regularly or continuously en-
ployed or engaged in any lawful and
profession of any kind, to register, on
or after said date, his name, address,
age and any other information which
shall require, with the Clerk of the
Circuit Court of the county in which
such person may be, or with the Clerk
of the Superior Court of Baltimore
City, if such person be in Baltimore
City, to the end that all such persons
may be assigned to work, at occupa-
tons of the character aforesaid, in
accordance with the provisions of the
said Act of Assembly.
Persons of the description aforesaid
able to support themselves by reason
of the ownership of property or in
come and those supported by others,
are included among those required to
register, but persons falling within
the following descriptions will not be
required to register:
/. Students and persons fitting
themselves to engage in trade or in
dustrial pursuits.
2. Persons temporarily unemploy-
ed by reason of differences with their
employers.
8. Persons engaged or employed in
any seasonal business, trade or occu-
patton carried on in Baltimore City
or Allegany county.
Rules and regulations will be pre-
pared and published governing the
assignment of persons of the descrip-
ton aforesaid to work, which will as
sure that all persons similarly cir
cumstanced shall, as far as it is pos
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