The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-29
LOCAL BOARDS BUSY WITH WORK
PRELIMINARY TO REGISTERING
ALL YOUNG men OF twenty -ONE
The Government Seeks to Know Probable Number OF
Men 10 Be Enrolled June Estimate 10 Fer
Cent Of Number Last Year.

members of local boards and attaches
the boards are cautioned to limit the
number to actual necessity and
wherever practicable to appoine per-
sons who will serve gratuitously.
Those qualifying as registrars should
be competent clerks whose hand
writing is legible and neat. They
must be citizens of the United States
and residents of the State of Con-
necticut.
Some VIII Require Interpreters.
Interpreters will be needed by
some of the local boards to facilitate
the registration of those who lack
familiarity with the English Ian
guage. Uncompensated service if
available is the. type of service de-
sired for this branch of the work.
The local boards will have to de-
pend on their own initiative in Sc
curing either the compensated or IN
compensated as interpreters. The
compensation of an interpreter has
limit. In no case must it exceed
that allowed to an interpreter en-
ployed by the federal court of that
i district.
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choose it's registration Office promptly
and give due publicity to it through
the newspapers and other sources.
Notices of the places of registration
will be posted in three public places
within the Jurisdictions of the local
boards
What Absentees Must Do.
Persons who will be temporarily
absent from the Jurisdiction of their
respective boards must be furnished
with registration cards. An absen-
tee must be instructed that he is not
being registered but that it is his
duty to see that his card when prop
lerly certified, is mailed to his local
board in time to reach such board
on or before Registration Day. Reg
; istration certificates will be given to
absentees by this local boards upon
receipt of the registration cards.
In addition to being prepared to
| supply absentees with registration
cards, local boards must also furnish
| registration cards to sick persons
who make applications. Any person
who will be unable to present him
! self for registration on June may
apply to the local board for copy
of the registration card and for au-
thority to fill it out. After the
: board member has satisfied himself
: that the case is a bonafide one he
will deputize the applicant to make
, out the card and the registrars re-
5 port. When made out the registrs
8 ton card will be mailed by the sicl
person or delivered by his agent tt
the local board. The sick person
: will enclose a self addressed stamped
: envelope for a registration certificate
j Blank registration cards and othe
l forms, and copies Of the registration
|. regulations will be mailed to the 10
s cal boards by the governors office
t Local boards will apply to state head
= quarters for any such additiona
: forms as may be necessary. Whel
o the last installment of forms is sen
e to each local board the governor
n Office will make a statement of tn
e total number of forms which shout
r have been received. Local Board
will Immediately verify the humble
It by telegraph. Registration card.
s. certificates and other forms togethe
e with copies of the registration reg
If ulations will be supplied in suff1cier
II number to each chief registrar 70
n distribution among the registrars un
n his jurisdiction