The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-10
NATIONAL GUARD
 ID BE DRAF FTEDINTO
 ARMY ON AUGUST ,
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and departments not included in the per sonnel of tactical organizations, and ex- cept such other officers of the National Guard as have been or may be specially notified by my authority that they will not he drafted to-wit
 New York Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minne- sota, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Maine New Hampshire, Yer mont Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Con- necticut, New Jersey, Delaware, Mary land, District of Columbia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee H. inois, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Wash ington, Oregon, Indiana, Kentucky, Geor- gia, Florida Alabama, Mississippi Ar kansas, Louisiana Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and California.
 THIRD
 All persons hereby drafted shall on and from the 5th day of August 1917, stand discharged from the militia, and, under the terms of section two of the act of May IS, 1917 be subject to the laws and regulations governing the regular army except as to promotions, so far as such laws and regulations are applicable to persons whose permanent retention in the military service on the active or retired list is not contemplated by law.
 FOURTH
 The members of each company, bat talion, regiment, brigade. division or other organizations of the National Guard hereby drafted into the military service of the United States shall Dc embodied in organizations correspond ing to those of the regular army. The officers not above the rank of col onel of said organizations of the Ma tional Guard who are drafted and whose officers are provided for in like organizations of the regular army are hereby appointed officers in the army of the United States in the arm, staff corps or department and in the grace in which they now hold commissions as officers of the National Guard, sucn appointments to be effective, subject to acceptance, on and from the fifth day of August, 1917, and each of them subject to such acceptance is hereby assigned as of said date to the ganization in the army of the United States composed of those who were members of the organization of the National Guard in which at the time of draft he held commission. The noncommissioned officers of the or ganiza tions of the National Guard, the members of which are hereby drafted are hereby appointed noncommissioned officers in their present grade in the organizations of the army composed of said members and shall in each case have the same relative rank as heretofore; and all other enlisted men are hereby confirmed in the army of the United States in the grades and ratings here by them in the National Guard in all cases where such grades and ratings correspond to grades and ratings provided for in like organiza- tions of the regular army, all such appointments of noncomm ssioned offi- cers and confirmations of other en- listed men in their grades to be with out prejudice to the authority of sub- ordinate commanders in respect of promotions. reductions and changes in enlisted personnel
 Each organization of the military force hereby created will, until fur ther orders, bear the same name and designation as the former organization National Qua I'd, of whose members it is composed.
 SIXTH
 "All necessary orders for combining the organizations created by embody- ing therein members of the National Guard and National Guard reserve hereby drafted into the military serv- ice of the United States into complete tactical units will be issued by lhe