The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-05-29

istration certificate. The local board
in the Jurisdiction Of the absentee will
forward him his registration certifi-
cate upon receipt of the registration
card.
Rule for Sick Persons.
Sick persons who will be unable to
appear for registration on Registra-
ton Day are advised under the regu-
lat1ons to have some competent person
apply to the local board for a copy Of
the registration card and authority to
fill it out. The card will then be re-
turned by the sick person on Registra-
tion Day, either by mail Or delivered
by his agent to the local board. The
sick person will enclose a self-ad-
dressed stamped envelope for a regis
tration certificate
Persons exempt from registration
because of service In the United States
army or navy Immediately become SUBJ
ject to registration and are required
to register Immediately upon leaving
such service.
An allen who enters the United
States for the first time after the date
set for registration is not subject to
registration, unless he declares his in
tention to become citizen.
Citizens or persons who have de-
clared their intention of becoming citi-
Zens who do not register on account
of absence from the territorial limits
of the United States are required to
register within five days after their
return to the United States.
All felons in jails, reformatories and
penitentiaries of the designated age
will be registered by the warden. AS
they are considered morally unfit for
military service they will not be draft
ed. Persons awaiting trial will not
be considered as felons and will be
registered. Inmates Of insane asy-
lums and similar institutions will be
treated as absentees and registered.
Must Post List
After Registration Day local boards
will be expected to register persons
within their jurisdiction who for any
reason were not registered on Regis
tration Day. They must also make an
assignment Of registration numbers to
registration cards. A list of names
of all persons whose registration cards
are in the possession of the local
boards will be prepared in duplicate
and arranged in alphabetical order
with the registration numbers opposite
their names. The list will be posted In
conspicuous place In the office of the
local board and the press provided
with copy for publication.
Questionnaires will be sent to the
address of each registrant on q day to
be designated by the Provost Marshal
General. After that date local boards
] will proceed with their work in ac-
cordance with the provisions of the Sc
lective Service regulations
Under SeTectEve Service Act.
The attention of every registrant is
particularly called to No. 63 of the
registration regulations, which fol-
lows:
"All persons registered, as herein
prescribed, shall be subject to the
terms and provisions and liabilities of
the Selective Service regulations pro-
mulgated on the eighth day of Novem-
Der, 1917, and all amendments thereto,
in the same manner and in all re-
spects as though they had been pre-
viously registered under the terms of
! the act of May 10. 1917, unless these
regulations or subsequent regulations
shall otherwise prescribe or the said
regulations would obviously be unap-
plicable."
The act of Congress applied to the
men of twenty-one provides that the
persons registered on June 5 shall be
placed at the bottom of the list of
those liable for military service in
the several classes to which they are
assigned, under such rules and regu-
lations as the President may prescribe.