Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1917-05-30
SOUNDS WARNING.
District Attorney ]. VIM. Thur
mond Gives Law on Con-
scription measure. Ly-
ing is Serious.

statement concerning the fegula-
tions and penalties of the conscrip-
tion proclamation. He emphasizes
especially the penalty for making a
false statement on the registration
blank, whose penalties will be with
in discretion of the governm ent.
Full text Of MIR. Thurmond's
note is as follows:
Attention of all the people of the
Western District of South Carolina
is hereby directed to the principles
of law deducible from the legisla-
tion Of congress and the proclama-
tion of President Wilson and Gov
ernor Manning relative to the regis
tration of males from whom the
selective draft for the army is to
be made: To wit:
l. The county boards of regis
tlation consist Of the clerk Of court
and Judge of probate of the respec-
tive counties and a chairman APP
pointed by the governor, and the
duties of this board, among other
things, are to appoint registrar
for each election precinct.
2. Any of the officers are agents
of the United States, or of the sew
eral states and subdivisions thereof,
designated or appointed under
regulations prescribed by the presi-
dent himself or by the governor or
other officers of any State or Terri
tory, are required to perform any
duties in the execution of the select
i've draft provisions of the War
Army act, and any such designated
person failing or neglecting to per-
form his duty fully in the premises,
is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon
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the Snited States having Jurisdic-
ton thereof, shall be punished By
Imprisonment of not more than one
year; and any person charged with
such duty or having and exercising
any authority under said act, regu-
lations or directions. who shall
knowingly make or be a party to
the making of a.y false or incor-
rect registration, physical examlna-
ton, exemption, enlistment, enroll
ment, or muster, are subject to SAID
penalties.
8. Any person who shall make or
be a party to the making of any
false statement or certificate as to
the fitness or liability of himself or
any other person for the service un-
der the provisions of said act Of
congress or regulations mac by the
president hereunder or otherwise
evades or aids another to evade the
requirements of said act or said
regulations, or who shall in any
manner fail or neglect fully to per-
form any requirement OF him in the
execution of said act, shall suffer
the penalties aforesaid.
4. June 5, 1917, from seven
o'clock a. m. to niue O'Clock p. IN.
is the day fixed for the registra-
ton OF persons liableto selective draft.
5. The persons subject to regis
tration are all males who shall
have attained by the day aforesaid
their 2Ist birthday and all who
shall not have attained by that day
their 31st birthday.
s. Every such person must pre-
sent himself for and submit to reg
istration on the day aforesaid, June
5, next, and truthfuliy and correctly
fill in the blanks on the card that
he signs. and if he claims eXemp-
ton he must so state on his card.
I. Persons at home must reg
lister with the official in charge
of the registration in his voting pre-
cinct.
8. Persons temporarily absent
from his place ut lteal residence
must fill as azores a registration
card, sign the same and mail to the
proper registrar in time to reach him
by the day named.
8. Persons prevented by their
own sickness from presenting
themselves for registration must APP
ply to the clerk of court of their
county before the day of registra-
ton and arrange to be registered on
said day.
10. Those who are sojourning in
cities of over 10000 population
may take their applications to the
city clerk of the city where they
are, instead of the clerk of the court
of the county.
IL. If any person whose duty it
is to register as aforesaid, fails OF
neglects to do SO, he shall not only