Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-01
GETTING READY TO
 CALL FCRTY- EIGHT MEN
Local Board Expects to Complete List
 of Names Today.


 ] to send out today (Monday) the mo- tices to the men who are to make up l the 4S to leave for Camp Devens, Aver, Mass. on Thursday. The list of names was not completed up to Sum- | day night.
 Governor Holcomb has received
 from Provost Marshal General Craw- der at Washington a communication 1 concerning draft exemptions. There is urgent necessity" writes l the provost marshal general. flor a systematic method of relieving hard i ship in cases where. either through error in law of local or district board or through the nonculpable ig- l norance of the registrant, a person who clearly ought to have been ex- enpte6 or discharged has been held I to service. After a man Is inducted
 into the, military service the local to discharge him from the military service. Before he is so inducted they have authority to discharge him l from draft. There are two general the first class the man has not been inducted into military service. In the second class he has been inducted into military service service from and 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 intself into two special classes.
 "(a) Where the person hes
 been certified by the local to the
 district board on form one forty
 sn six as having been called by a local Charged but has not yet been certi- fled back from the district to the
 local board in accordance with sec-r
 tion two; mobilization regulation
 "In case "a the local board may
 reopen the case upon its owns mo- tfon or upon request of the adiutant general subject to the condition
 that the local board shall immedi- ately notify the district board that proot and Ras reopened the case.
 been certified from the district to
 r ary 0sa service srd but as e'a date fer by the local board for induction in the military service has not yet arrived or when the local board has not specified the date for induction
 Tn case b' either the local or the district board may reopen the case upon receiving permission to do so from the adjutant general of adjutant general of the state, and the local board may defer orders receipt of permission fro s the ad- tutant general In case the ad- 5utant general, so requests, or grants permission, he will notify both the local and district board.
 "fn case "a the acknowledgement Of the state may withhold entry of the name of the resistrant from one forty-six b and may request the proper local board to reopen the case The local board should then reopen the case, pass upon its merits. and certify it to the district board. all in the nor diction to discharge. Similarly, the district board should pass upon the cnse. If the exemption or dis charge is refused, the district board sixty four, but will notify the adju- tant general of the state of it's ac- tfon and the adjutant-senera1 will send the man to the proper mobili- him to report to his local board for transportation as seems most con- venient. In case the exemption or discharge is granted, the local board will not deliver the discharge certi- ficate to the registrant, but will the state. who will forward it to the adjutant- general of the army with the request that the man shall be from military service by that his Zlduc19on into military ser vice was consummated through err TOT. Thereupon. the adjutant- -gen-1 eral of the army will order the dis l service and will forward the dis charge to the adjutant- general of | the state for delivery to the regis 1 trant.
 "ib) Where ahe man has been l called to report for military duty by | ha i1-l ization camp.
 "In case 'b' either the local board or the military authorities at the mobilization camp may request permission for the local board to reopen the case for the purpose of determining whether or not the ex- smption or discharge should have sral of the state may request the To- ;al board to reopen the case for the same purpose. Tn case permission s granted the request as made by board will reopen the case. pass ,pon its merits and certify to the district board in the regular man. fer. The district board will also reat it in the regular manner. If IT discharge should not have been 'rantcd the district board will so otify the adjutant general of the tate who will, in case where the eqhest to reopen comes from the officer of the mobiliza- ion camp, promptly notify such commanding officer that there is no round for dischargfng the man from military service.
 Cases Few in Number.
 eff it is determined that the dis harge should have been granted he local board will not deliver a opy of the discharge to the reg rant, but will send it to the ad- ltant general of the state. who will orward it to the commanding off, er at the mobilization camp with |. 1e request that the man be dis harged rom military service on the round that he should have been ischarged from the draft. There- ? pom the commanding officer at the e camp will discharge the n Ian from military service. t "AH concerned are cautioned that