Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1917-05-24

Washington, May 18.-Imme-
diately after signing the Army
bill tonight, President Wilson
issued a proclamation naming
June 5 as registration day. The
proclamation read in part:
A PROCLAMATION
By the President of the United
States.
Whereas, Congress has enact
ed and the President has on the
eighteenth day of May,one thou
sand nine hundred and seven
teen, approved a law which con-
tains the following provisions:
(The proclamation tn e n
quotes Sections 5 and 6 of the
Army billy
Now, therefore, 1, Woodrow
Wilson, President of the United
States, do call upon the Cover
nor of each of the several States
and Territories, the Board of
Commissioners of the District of
Columbia, and all of officers and
agents of the several States and
Territories, of the District of
Columbia, and of the counties
and municipalities therein, to
perform certain duties in the
execution of the foregoing law,
which duties will be commune
Gated to them directly in regu-
lations of even date herewith.
"And | do further proclaim
and give notice to all persons
subject to registration in the
several States and in the Dis
trict of Columbia with the above
law that the time and place of
such registration shall be be-
tween z a. m. and 7 p. m. on the
fifth day of June, 1917, at the
registration place in the pre-
cinct wherein they have their
permanent homes.
Those who shall have attain
ed their twenty-frst birthday
and who shall not have attained
their thirty-first birthday on or
before the day here named are
required to register, excepting
only officers and enlisted men Of
the regular army, the navy, the
Marine Corps and the National
Guard and Naval Militia while
in the service of the United
States, and officers Of the Off
GERS Reserve Corps and enlist
ed men in the enlisted Reserve
Corps while in active service.
In the territories of Alaska, Ha-
waii and Porto Rico a day for
registration will be named in a
later proclamation.
"And | do charge those who
through sickness shall be una
BILE to present themselves for
registration that they apply on
or before the day Of registra-
tion to the county clerk of the
county where they may be for
instructions as to how they may
be registered by agent. Those
who expect to be absent on the
day named from the counties in
which they have their perma-
Hent homes may register by
mail, but their mailed registra-
ton cards must reach the places
in which they have their perma-
nent homes by the day named
herein.
"They should apply as soon as
practicable to the county clerk
of the county wherein they may
be for instructions as to how
they may accomplish theirregis-
tration by mail. In case such
persons as through sickness or
absence, may be unable to pre-
sent themselves personally for
registration shall be sojourning
in cities Of over 10000 popula-
ton, they shall apply to the city
clerk of the city wherein they
may be sojourning rather than
to the clerk of the county.
"The clerks of counties and of
cities of over thirty thousand
population in which numerous
applications from the sick and
from non-residents are expected
are authorized to establish such
agencies and to employ and de-
pntize such clerical force as
may be necessary to accommo-
date these applications.