The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-05-23

act orthe regulations made or direc-
tions given Hereunder who shall fail
or neglect to perform such duty; and
any person charged with such duty;
or having and exercising any au-
thority under said act, regulations,
or directions, who shall knowingly
make or be party to the making
OF any false or incorrect registrar
tlon, physical examination, exemp-
tion, enlistment, enrolment or mus
ter; 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 service under
the provisions of this act, or regula-
t1ons made by the president there
under or otherwise evades or aids
another to, evade. the requirements
OF this act or of said regulations, or
who, in any manner, shall fail or neg
lect fully to perform any duty re-
quired of him in the execution of
this act, shall, if not subject to. mill
tary law, be guilty of a misdemeanor
and upon conviction in the district
court of the United States, having
jurisdiction thereof, be punished by
| imprisonment for not more than one
year, or, if subject to military law,
shall be tried by court-martial and
suffer such punishment as a court
martial may direct.
Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Will
son, president of the United States,
do call upon. the governor of each
of the several states and territories.
the board of commissioners of the
District of Columbia, and all officers
and agents of the several states and
territories, of the District of Colum-
b'a, and of the counties and NUM-
:lpalities therein to perform certain
duties in the execution of the fore
going law, which duties will be COM
niunicated to them directly in regu-
latlons of even date herewith.
Must Register on June 5.
| And | do further proclaim and
give notice to all persons subject to
registration in the several states
and in the District of Columbia in
accordance with the above law, that
the time and place of such registra-
tion shall be between 7 a. m. and 9
p. M, on the fifth day of June 1917,
at the registration place in the pre-
cinct wherein they5rhave their per
manent homes. Those who shall
have attained their twenty-Rrst
birthday and who shall not have at
tanned their thirty-f first birthday on
or before the day here named are re-
qnired to register, excepting only Of
icers and enlisted men<of the regu-
lar army, the navy, the marine corps,
and the National Guard, and naval
militia, while in the service of the
United States, and officers in the Of
F1cers' reserve corps and enlisted
nen in the enlisted reserve corps
while in active service In the ter
ritories of Alaska, Hawaii and Porto
hico day for registration will be
named in a later proclamation.
And do charge those who through
sickness shall be unable to present
themselves for registration that they
apply on or before the day of regis
tration to the county clerk of the
county where they may be for in
structions as to how they may be
registered by agent.
| AbScnteeS
Those who expect to be absent on
the day named from the counties in
which they have their permanent
homes may register by mail, but
their mailed registration cards must
reach the places in which they have
their permanent 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 their registra-
tion by mail. In case such persons
as, through sickness or absence, may
be unable to present themselves per-
sonally for registration shall be So
journing in cities of over 10000 pop
ulation, 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 10000
population in which numerous ap-
plications from the sick and from
non-residents are expected are au-
thorized to establish such sub-agents
and to- employ and deputize such
clerical force as may be necessary
to accommodate these applications.
The power against which we are