Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-11-25
LOCAL BOARD
CLOSE RECORDS | ! I D
All Records Of Local Admin
istration Board Sealed
and Kept From
Public.
NO FURTHER ENTRIES
All Papers to be Kept as a
/ Permanent War
Record.

ASNNVAus
In view Of the armistice and the con-
sequent temporary abatement of the
ipI iediate urgency Of complete CLASH
tieation, the local registration board
has received orders from the provost
marshal general to complete the princi-
pal work still remaining as follows:
Local boards will immediate col
lect and transmit all data called for in
connection with the making Of the an
jnuai report @
They will, with the least possible
slackening Of effort on account of the
annual report work, complete their
classification work, as to all registrants
of both the 10 to SO and Is year groups
in accordance with Instructions al
ready given except the physical exam
nations which were ordered discontin-
ued as to all age groups.
No Moro Appeals.
They will forward no more cases to
district boards. No. more appeals will
be taken now to district boards. 1t is
participated that, since physical exam
ination, induction work and classified
ton by district boards has ceased, this
work Of initial classification by local
boards may be practically completed
on or before November 80 except for
late registrants and no late registrants
shall be classified whose questionable
is received after December 8.
Local boards will accurately make
out and promptly submit, as Of NOvem-
Der 30, the first monthly report called
for in recent instructions. Inasmuch
as no further cases are to be forwarded
to district boards, for the purposes of
the monthly report, the .classificati ton Of
the local board Of cases not SO forward
ed shall be entered on said monthly re-
port as il they had been finally CLASH
fed. The board will be called upon to
submit section monthly report as of
December 8, which is the date after
which no further questionnaires are to
be received by local boards.
1. To Seal Records.
Immediately upon the classification
work and the rendering of the last of
the above reports, which must not be
later than December 10, the local board
records, which are public records Of the
government of the United States, shall
be sealed by the chairman of the local
board, Rufus F.. Nelson, and the rec
Ords and cases shall be kept sealed and
intact subject to further orders from
the governor or the provost marshal
general.
| All papers and documents received by
local boards after the records are SO
sealed, shall be first clearly and plain
~ endorsed or stamped with the date
of receipt, and then placed in separ-
tie file and held until further orders
from the governor or the provost mar.
shall general.
Local boards are further directed
that until further direction, no further
series or additions or alterations of
any sort or kind or description shall
be made in records of registrants Of
the registration of June 5, 1917, and Of
June 5 and August "a, 1918, save under
conditions and instructions to here
after be given from the Office of the
adjutant general. Records of the reg
istrants of the September II registra-
ton belonging to the 10 to SO and Is
year age groups shall be made up and
continued until their classification
work is complete but only and solely
in accordance with the normal proceed
ure, after which no more entries, al
terations or additions shall be. m:tie
therein save. under conditions. and, in
structions to be hereafter given from
the Office of the adjutant general. Tn
der no circumstances whatever shall To-
cal boards withdraw or permit anyone
else to Withdraw any papers whatever
now in the boards files or hereafter
placed in such files.
Public Barred.
After the receipt Of this order no ac-
cess shall be given records of local
boards on the part of any person what |
ever not q board member, or. member |
Of the clerical force specifically author
lied thereto by the board, and no in