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ton, and failing to report chang eS of address.
 Registration will consist of an swering certain questions, such as name, address, place of birth. date and place of entry into this country, and occupation. Each alien will be asked how long he intends to remain in this country and whether he has had any military service either here or abroad. He will be required to list his activities and to name any organizations of which he is a member or in which he partici- pateS and to state whether they further the interests or program of foreign government.
 So much for the nature and purpose of the Alien Registra- tion Act. Now, as time will al- low, a few words about the man ner in which it will be admins tered. AS I have said, the Con- gress has placed upon the Depart ment of Justice and the Post Of flee Department the duty of car rying out the provisions of this Act, and these two great depart ments of our Government are working in close cooperation in order that this huge task may be carried out smoothly, efficiently, and with as little disturbance in the lives of our alien population as possible.
 The actual registration will be handled by a trained staff of courteous, experienced postal em ployees who will be on duty dur ing the full period of registra- ton from August 27th to Decem Der 18th, inclusive, in every first and second-class post office and in the post office at every county seat. The alien will be required to go there and answer the ques- tions. Adequate provisions will be made for those who are infrm or bedridden or confined in insti- tutions. The answers to the ques- tions will be recorded by the posta employees on official forms. After they have been completed the alien must sign his name and swear to the truth of his answer. His fingerprints will be made at that time too. He will not be cross-examined by anyone at the post office, but he will be expect ed to answer all the questions accurately, completely and truth fully.
 These signed questionnaires will be sent to the Immigration and Naturalization Service at Washington where they will be filed, indexed, and catalogued to become part of the permanent records of that Service. Where necessary, they will be checked against other records, and investi gations will be conducted,if if re quired, to determine the accur- acy of the information thus ob- tained.
 In due course everyone who registers will receive through the United States mail a regis tered receipt card. This will be his proof that he has registered in compliance with the law. This card should be preserved care fully and it would be well to have it readily available because though the law does not require an alien to carry it with him. it does require every alien to regis ter, and this card will be his evidence that he has done so.
 In order to make registration easier, specimen forms of the questionnaire with full instruc- tions as to each question and how it should be answered will be available at the various post offices well before the first day of registration, Angus 9Th. These instructions will contain an exact duplicate of the official registra ton blank, and it is urged that every alien obtain a specimen form as soon as possible, take it