The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-09-05

The president of the United States
by proclamation. has fixed the 18th
day of September for the registration
Throughout the United States of all
men between the ages of is and 40, in
elusive. for military service except
those who have already registered and
those who are not required under the
law 10 so do.
Under the authority vested in the
president. it has been ordered that
state headquarters. local boards ana
other officials of the state will hold
themselves in readiness to proceed
promptly with their work OF reglstra-
ton on the date fixed.
The Draft Machinery.
Existing draft machinery will be
used with such Increased facilities and
additional registrars as are permitted
for this enrolment. under the presl-
dents proclamation. The governors
of all states have been called upon to
supervise this registration. and the
adjutant general will under this proc
lamation be the central administrative
authority; all local boards will have
immediate direction and supervision
within the respective Jurisdictions. The
actual registration will be made in the
customary voting precincts within the
jurisdiction of each board or in such
places as the local board having juris-
diction shall designate by public no.
tice.
Frazier's Proclamation.
Governor Lynn J. Frazier. by proc
lamation. calls attention to the rules
issued by the provost marshal gener-
al as to persons who are to register
under the act and calls upon the citi-
cents of North Dakota to assist in the
registration in the following language:
"All male persons who shall have at
tanned their eighteenth birthday and
shall not have attained their forty
sixth birthday on or before the day Sc:
for registration by the president must
register. The only exceptions are:
Persons. who. prior to the day set
for registration by the president, have
registered under the terms of the Act
approved May IS. 1917 (which fixed
the original age limits at 81 to 80 in,
clusive) or under the terms of the pub
lie resolution of congress approved
May 20, 1918 (providinr for the regis
tration since June 5, 1917. of those
Reaching the age of q years. wheth-
er called for public service or not
and
''Officers and enlisted men of the
regular army; officers appointed. and
men of the forces drafted, under the
provisions of the act approved May IS,
1917: officers and enlisted men of the
national guard while in the service OF
the United States; and the officers
of the officers reserve corps and en-
listed men in the enlisted reserve
corps while in the service of the Unit
ed States: and
"Officers and enlisted men of the
navy and marine corps and officers
and enlisted men Of the navy reserve
force and marine corps reserve while
in the service of the United States;
and
diplomatic representatives. techni-
cal attaches of foreign embassies and
legations. consuls general, consuls and
consular agents of foreign countries
residing in the United States; and
Persons not subject to registra-
ton solely on account of being in tn.
military or naval service of the Unit
ed States become subject to registra-
ton and are required to register i'm
mediately upon leaving such military
or naval service
Absentees.
Citizens of the United States or
persons who have declared their in
tention to become citizens of the Unit
ed States who do not register on &C
count of absence from the territorial
limits of the United States are re-
qrjred to register within five days at
ter their return to the United States
THE regulations then warn regis