The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-08-03
RULES WHICH
K..+.:gOVERN
EXAI,,..' 'dT|ON
Of Drafted Men BY Local Ex-
emption Boards
HEARINGS NEXT WEEK
Provost Marshal General crowder
Sends Out Statement Which APP
plies to Entire Country.
HEARINGS NEXT WEEK

The following are the rulings of
the General Crowder relative to COM
pleting the work of the selective
draft:
To governors, adjutants general.
and members of local and district
boards
To secure uniformity of interpreta-
ton. compiled rulings of the Provost
marshal general on questions concern
ing the execution of the selective-
service law will be published from
time to time and forwarded to the
governors of the several states for
distribution to local and district
boards. Ten copies of each should
be sent to each board. These com
pilations will be numbered in Sc
ries beginning with the present COM
pilation, which is No l.
E. II. Crowder,
Provost Marshal General.
(a) Correspondence, acquisitions and
requests for rulings.
To secure uniformity and to mini
mize correspondence it is prescribed
that all correspondence intended for
the provost marshal general, all re-
quests for rulings or information con
cerning the selective-service law, all
requisitions for blank forms and sup
plies, and all questions concerning
expenditure be addressed to the office
OF the governor OF the state In which
the inquiry or request arises and not
to the provost marshal general. Such
.4auesticns. as can not he answered u
state headquarters should be summar-
lied and forwarded to the Office OF the
provost marshal general, by telegram
when the necessity for a ruling Is ur-
gent and immediate; in other cases,
by mail.
Oh Registration to be accomplished
by local boards.
Local boards are required by regu-
lation to continue the functions of
registration boards Local boards
will therefore accomplish the regi-
stration boards. Local boards will
therefore accomplish the registration
of persons who for any reason have
not been registered on or since June
5 See section 8, regulations for 10
cal boards, and section 40, registra
tion regulations
(c) Lost registration certificates
When registration certificates arc
lost, copies may not be furnished
but the proper local board may fur
nish a statement showing the date
and place of registration, red ink Sc
rial number of registration card, and
order Of call.
(d) Mailed registration cards which
have not reached destination.
Where persons have attempted t
register by mail and 1t appears tina
their registration cards have no
reached their destination, they shoulC
promptly cause themselves to be regi
stored.
(e) Persons who have registered II
the wrong jurisdiction.
Where a person through error i
registered in jurisdiction not tha
of his home, he may apply to have hi
examination transferred as proyide
by section 20, regulations for loco
boards, but II not exempted or di:
charged he will be called for militar
service by the board which has juri'
diction of his registration card.
f) Registration OF recently arrive
aliens.
Persons not citizens of the Unite
States who have entered the Unite
States for the first time since June
are not subject to registration
(g) Local boards may sit outsid
territorial jurisdiction in certai
cases
In cities and counties for whic
there are more than one local boar
the boards may hold their session
in central building such as couI
house or city, although such building
may not be in the technical territori
Jurisdiction OF the boards, II SUE
pace is convenient for the perso
whose cards are within the jurlsd
tion of the boards.
(h) Double or multiple registrati'
in same jurisdiction.
Whenever local board discove
that the same person has two or mo
registration cards in the jurisdctl
of the local board, the case will be
ported and all cards forwarded to {
adjutant general as provided in 81
tion Q of the regulations for determ
Ing the order OF call tform 5OO) a
the adjutant general shall, after We
ncation OF the fact OF double or m
tiple registration by reference TO
lists in his possession, determine
lot which OF the two numbers sh
be continued and shall cancel
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