Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-08-26
MARSHAL WARNS
ALIEN ENEMIES
Moving About Promiscuously May
Result in Arrest and
Detention.

| Much trouble has been experienced on
! the part of Federal authorities throughout
| the country, by the promiscuous moving
! of registered alien enemies who iehvc At
will. the address AT which they registered,
| which is in direct contradiction to the
| law recurring them TO register. The
government has requested all L. ). Mar
| shall's offices TO make public the statutes
concerning the registration OF Allen
enemies. especially females The law fol-
| lows:
| ANY alien female registered or required
| 10 register who shall change her place OF
| residence to another place oi residence
within the same registration district snail
| immediately report such change to the
| registration officer of such registration
| district, and shall present To such regis
| tration officer her registration card Tor the
purpose of having indorsed thereon by
| such registration officer the change of resi-
| dence.
No alien female registered or required
10 register shall change her place Of resi-
dencc within another registration district
without a permit Application for such
perfnIt must be made bv the alien female
| To the registration officer OF the regis
! tratiou district in which the alien female
| then resides The application must be
made in four copies upon form 10 ne
| furnished for that purpose, IN which form
| such alien female must state full partlcu-
/ lars as to the date on which her residence
/ is to be changed. as to the reason for such
| change. and rs to her intended place oi
! residence
The registration officer to whom such
application for change OF residence Is made
J shall. If no reason against the granting oi
| such permit be manifest to him. lndorSc
such pcrmit upon the registration card ot
the alien female which must be presented
hy the latter To the registration officer TOR
that purpose.
The registration officer shall notify the
alien female 10 whom permission is given
10 change her place Of residence from one
registration district 10 another that such
alien female must forthwith report her
arrival IN the registration district INTO
which she moves to the registration officer
Of that district and exhibit TO him her
registration card with permit OF change
of residence indorsed thereon. and such
alien female is hereby required so 30 re-
port The form Of application and ol
permit under this paragraph shall be sub
stantially as follows.
A change of residence IN violation Of the
regulations subjects an alien enemy
| among other penalties 10 arrest anu &c
tention for the period Of the war
If the registration officer to whom ap
plicatlon for permit Of change Of resldcnc
is made under the next preceding para
graph shall find sufficient cause agalns
the granting Of such permit his decision
shall be final unless the alien female shaI
demand that the application he forwarde
70 the United States marshal IN IN
judicial district for final action II sue
demand he made the registration office
shall forward the application for such'pe1
init of change Of residence with the repol
Of his reasons for not granting same,
the United States marshal In his !udicl'
district for final action
: II such marshal shall decide that u
permit should be granted, he shall rct,lr
! the application 10 the registration ofhC'
: with instructions 10 grant the permit, ar
: the registration officer shall proceed wit
such application and notice Of such perm
in the manner set forth in the precedlT
paragraph II no such demand is mad
= the regist ration officer shall within
+ reasonable time forward the applicatlo
with brief statement OF his reasons f
7 i. the denial thereof and with a stateme
that the alien female has not demand'
further action thereon, to the Unite
States marshal in his judicial district I
purposes Of record.