The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-19

the United States follows:
 Whereas, Congress has enacted and the President has on the 18th day or May, one thousand nine hundred ana seventeen, approved a law which con- tains the following provisions:
 Section 5-That all male persons be tween the ages of 21 and 30, both in elusive, shall be subject to reg1stra- ton in accordance with regulations to be prescribed by the President, and upon proclamation by the President or other public notice given by him or py his direction stating the time ana place of such registration 1t shall pc the duty of all persons of the oeslg- mated ages, except officers and enlisted men of the regular army, the navy and the National Guard and Naval Militia while in the service Of the United States, to present themselVes for and submit to registration under the provisions of this act; and every such person shall be deemed to have notic of the requirements of this act upon the publication of said procla- mation or other notice as aforesaid given by the President or by his d1- rection; and any person who shall wiIfu11y fail or refuse >to present him. self for registration or to submit thereto as herein provided shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction in the District Court of the United States having jurisdic- tion thereof, be punished by impT1s- onment for not more than one year, and shall thereupon be duly regis tered;
 Provided, that in the call of the docket precedence shall be given. in courts trying the same, to the trial of criminal proceedings snder this act;
 Provided, further, that persons shall be subject to registration as herein provided who shall have attained their twenty first birthday and who shall not have attained their thirty-frst birthday on or before the day set for the registration. and all persons so registered shall be and remain subject to draft into the forces hereby author ized unless exempted or excused there from as in this act provided;
 Provided, further, that in the case of temporary absence from actual place of legal residence of any person liable to registration as provided here in, such registration may be made by mail urbdler regulations to be pre- scribed by the President.
 Section 6-That the President is hereby authorized to utilize the ser. vice of any or all departments and any or all officers or agents of the United States and of the severa states, territories and the District o1 Columbia and subdivisions thereof ir | the execution of this act, and all off cers and agents of the United State; l and of the several states, territorie. | and subdivisions thereof, and of the District of Columbia, and all person: | designated or appointed under regula' 1 tions prescribed by the Presiden whether such appointments are made | by the President himself or by thu governor or other officer of any state or territory to perform any duty il | the execution of this act, are hereb. required to perform such duty as thu ] President shall order or direct. ant all such officers and agents and per sons so designated or appointed shal hereby have full authority for all act done by them in the execution of thi act by the direction of the President Correspondence in the execution o this act may be carried in penalt, envelopes bearing the frank of tn
 War Department. Any person charge' as herein provided with the duty o l CdTTyluS lIIO Sll6CI ally Ol tllS pI U
 visions of this act Or the regulation \ made or directions given thereunde
 who shall fail or neglect to perform
 such duty; and any person charge,
 with such duty; or having and exercis
 ing any authority under such act, reg
 ulations or directions, who shal
 knowingly make or be a party to tn
 making of any false or incorrect reg
 icf,. a1y
 emption, enlistment, enrolment, o
 muster; an any person who shal
 make or be a party to the making o
 any false statement or certificate a
 to the fitness or liability of himsel
 or any other person for service unde the provisions of this act, or regula
 tions made by the President there
 under, or otherwise evades or aid
 another to evade the requirements 0
 this act or of said regulations, or who
 in any manner, shall fail or neglec fully to perform any duty required o
 him in the execution of this act, sha1
 if not subject to military law, b
 guilty of misdemeanor, and upo
 conviction in the District Court of tn
 United States having jurisdictio thereof, be punished by irnprisonmen
 for not more than one year, or,
 subject to military law, shall be trie
 by court martial and suffer such pun
 ishment as a court martial may direct
 Now, Therefore, I, WOODROW
 WILSON, President of the Unite
 States, do call upon the Governor 0
 each of the several States and Terri
 tories. the Board of Commissioners 0
 the District of Columbia and all off
 cers and agents of the several State
 and Territories, of the District of Go
 lumbia and of the counties and nu
 nicipalities therein to perform certai
 duties in the execution of the fore going law, which duties will be com
 municated to them directly in regula
 tions of even date herewith.
 And I Do Further Proclaim, an
 give notice to all persons subject t
 registration in the several states an
 in the District Of Columbia in accord
 ance with the above law that the tim
 and place of such registration shall b
 between a. m. and p. m. on tn
 fifth day of June, 1917, at the regis trafiOn n1aca in tha Drocinct wherei