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1906 men TO BE DRAFTED
IN MARYLAND NEXT WEEK
Will Provide Maryland's Quota in
Selection of Men to Represent
State in World Crisis.

State in World Crisis.
\ total of 7,096 men Will be draft
ed next week TO provide Maryland'S
quota for the national army. the
National Guard and the regular ar
my OF the United States.
The Provost MarshaI-GeneraI.
through the Secretary of War. today
made public the quotas of the several
States, territories and the District of
Columbia In all, there will be GS7,-
600 men required to form the first
national army and to raise the guard
and the regulars to full war strength.
At the same time Governor Har-
! rington was notified that he would
/ be expected to figure out the number
! Of men to be drawn from each or
| the States registration districts. He
| has been given a definite formula for
arriving at the totals for each dis
trict. including the number of men
/ which each has given to the National
Guard and the regular army.
/ The net quota for the State was
reached by the Government after all
! deductions We're allowed for enlist
mentS in the present armed forces of
! the country. and in like manner the
: IL ullDtI ioI tdN IL AOtlllN anu VCt' II
district of Baltimore will be reached
! by the Governor.
Maryland's population. for this
purpose, was fixed at l .299. 091 and
on that basis gross quota of H.
! 1879 men, or .012,263 of 900, 200,
was fixed upon. From this gross
/ quota, however. the State was allow
ed credits of 7.01S for the number
. of NInryl u nHlrS enlist cd in tho M
tiOnal Guard and the regular army
up to and including June 80, 1917.
These credits are as follows:
Number of National Guard enlist
ments TO April /. $3.50.
Number of National Guard enlist
ments April TO June 80, inclusive,
3,151.
Number of men enlisted in regu-
lar army from April to June 80,
inclusive, 537.
Aggregate number of men enlis-
ted as above, 7,01S.
The difference between aggregate
number of enlistments in the Nation
al Guard and the regular army is T.
{121 The State, however. was allow
ed an additional credit of Is men I'M
der census adjustments, which brings
the net quota down TO 1895.
Governor Harrington is expected
by the War Department to proceed
without delay to fix the quotas for
1 the several registration districts OF
| the State. These quotas will not be
| given out in Washington, but will
come from the State capital. Virgin
! las quota of men 10 be drawn is 49,
/ 795.
About One-half of Maryland's l.
/ 096 will come from the city of Balti-
more. as the city registered about
! half the States total. Five districts
in the city are all that stand now
/ between General Warfield and his
ability TO flash a maryland is 0. X. !"
/ to the War Department. The num-
/ bers in every other district have been
/ finished and filed at Annapolis and
! Washington. One of the delinquent
! districts was said last evening TO
/ have sent its cards to Annapolis, and
General Warfield hopes to be able to
I get the other four over the line today
The burden of finding out his new
number is on the man. The Govern
ment has decided that it will not
hunt up the men to tell them their
numbers until they are called before
the boards If you are a registrant
and want to know your number, con
suit the list of members of the local
board of exemption, go to the home
of the chairman or some other mem
Der of the board, and get the number
from him. The law says that the lists
of new numbers shall be posted in Il
conspicuous spot around the place OF
registration but, in most instances.
this has not been done