TABLE OF CONTENTS.

PART A.

LOCAL BOARDS.

Section 1. Provisions of the act of Congress authorizing the President to create and establish local and district boards.

Sec. 2. Local boards:

(a) In counties.

(b) In States having no county administrative organizations and in Territories.

(c) In cities of 30,000 population or over.

Sec. 3. Designations of local boards.

Sec. 4. The qualifications for members of local boards.

Sec. 5. Power to fill vacancies in any local board.

Sec. 6. Duty of members to notify Provost Marshal General and governor, or in cities

of 30,000 population or over the mayor, of refusal to act or resignation.

Sec. 7. Organization of local boards.

Sec. 8. Local boards to take possession of registration cards.

Sec. 9. Duty of local boards to number registration cards.

Sec. 10. Local board to make lists of persons whose registration cards are in its possession.

Sec. 11. Provisions of said act of Congress authorizing the President to draft certain military forces and to make regulations therefor.

Sec. 12. Method and manner of making draft to be prescribed by later regulations. Sec. 13. Determination of quotas to be called and furnished.

Sec. 14. List of names of persons in the order of their liability for military service to be posted and mailed by local boards.

Sec. 15. Persons to be called in their order and notice of call to be given.

Sec. 16. Physical examination of persons called.

Sec. 17. Provisions of the act of Congress prescribing powers of local boards to hear

and determine certain questions of exemption and discharge.

Sec. 18. Persons or classes of persons to be exempted by a local board.

(a) Officers of the United States and of the several States, Territories, and the

District of Columbia.

(b) Ministers of religion.

(c) Students of divinity.

(d) Persons in the military or naval service of the United States.

(e) Subjects of Germany residing in the United States.

(f) All other resident aliens who have not taken out their first papers.

Sec. 19. Local boards to issue certificates of exemption.

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Sec. 20. Persons or classes of persons to be discharged by a local board.

(a) County and municipal officers.

(b) Customhouse clerks.

(c) Persons employed by the United States in the transmission of the mails. (d) Artificers and workmen employed in the armories, arsenals, and navy yards of the United States.

(e) Persons employed in the service of the United States designated by the President to be exempted.

(f) Pilots.

(g) Mariners actually employed in the sea service of any citizen or merchant within the United States.

(h) Those in a status with respect to persons dependent upon them for support which renders their exclusion or discharge desirable.

(1) Any married man whose wife or child is dependent upon his labor for support.

(2) Any son of a widow dependent upon his labor for support.

(3) Son of aged or infirm parent or parents dependent upon his labor for

support.

(4) Father of a motherless child or children under 16 years of age dependent upon his labor for support.

(5) Brother of a child or children under 16 years of age, who has (have) neither father nor mother, and is (are) dependent upon his labor for support.

(i) Any person who is found by such local board to be a member of any wellrecognized religious sect or organization organized and existing May 18, 1917, and whose then existing creed or principles forbid its members to participate in war in any form, and whose religious convictions are against war or participation therein in accordance with the creed or principles of said religious organizations.

Sec. 21. Those found to be morally deficient.

Sec. 22. Local boards to decide claims of exemption or discharge within three days after filing of affidavits.

Sec. 23. Local boards to issue certificates of discharge.

Sec. 24. Local boards to certify to the district boards having jurisdiction names of persons called and not exempted or discharged and names of persons called who have been exempted or discharged.

Sec. 25. List to be posted and notices to be mailed.

Sec. 26. Appeals from local boards to district boards.

Sec. 27. Government appeals.

Sec. 28. Local boards may in certain cases extend the time to file claims and affidavits.

Sec. 29. Local boards may order the physical examination of any person called and the hearing on a claim for exemption or discharge transferred to another local board.

Sec. 30. Local boards may cancel one registration in case a person is registered in two jurisdictions.

PART B.

DISTRICT BOARDS.

Sec. 31. Provisions of the act authorizing the President to create and establish district boards.

Sec. 32. Creation and establishment of district boards.

Sec. 33. Designation of district boards.

Sec. 34. The qualifications for members of district boards.

Sec. 35. Power to fill vacancies in any district board.

Sec. 36. Duty of any person appointed a member of a district board to notify the President of his refusal to act or of his resignation.

Sec. 37. Organization of district boards.

Sec. 38. Jurisdiction of district boards in cases of appeal from local boards.

Sec. 39. Jurisdiction of district boards in cases where the district board has original jurisdiction.

Sec. 40. Procedure of district boards.

Sec. 41. Procedure of district boards in cases of appeal from a local board by the person called or by some other person in respect of such person.

Sec. 42. District boards to issue certificates of exemption or discharge.

Sec. 43. Procedure of district boards in cases appealed from a local board to a district board by the Provost Marshal General.

Sec. 44. Procedure of district boards in cases where a district board has exclusive original jurisdiction under the terms of said act of Congress.

Sec. 45. District boards to issue certificates of discharge in cases where it has original jurisdiction.

Sec. 46. Provisions of the act authorizing the President to affirm, modify, or reverse any decision of a district board.

Sec. 47. Appeals from a final decision of a district board in cases in which a district board has exclusive original jurisdiction.

Sec. 48. District boards to certify to the adjutant general of the State, Territory, or District of Columbia the names of persons called and not exempted or discharged. Sec. 49. Members of local boards and district boards disqualified to act on certain claims.

Sec. 50. District boards may in certain cases extend time to file claims and affidavits.

Sec. 51. Effect of any act to be done falling on Sunday or on a holiday.

Sec. 52. Requirements in respect to signing and giving notices, certificates, or other papers by local and district boards.

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RULES AND REGULATIONS PRESCRIBED BY THE PRESIDENT UNDER THE AUTHORITY VESTED IN HIM BY THE TERMS OF THE ACT OF CONGRESS TO AUTHORIZE THE PRESIDENT TO INCREASE TEMPORARILY THE MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT OF THE UNITED STATES, APPROVED MAY 18, 1917. THESE RULES AND REGULATIONS MAY BE MODIFIED AT ANY TIME BY THE PRESIDENT.

PART A.

LOCAL BOARDS.

SECTION 1. Provisions of the Act of Congress authorizing the President to create and establish local and district boards.

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SEC. 4. * * ** The President is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to create and establish throughout the several States and subdivisions thereof and in the Territories and the District of Columbia local boards, and where, in his discretion, practicable and desirable, there shall be created and established one such local board in each county or similar subdivision in each State, and one for approximately each thirty thousand of population in each city of thirty thousand population or over, according to the last census taken or estimates furnished by the Bureau of Census of the Department of ComSuch boards shall be appointed by the President, and shall consist of three or more members, none of whom shall be connected with the Military Establishment, to be chosen from among the local authorities of such subdivisions or from other citizens residing in the subdivision or area in which the respective boards will have jurisdiction under the rules and regulations prescribed by the President. Such boards shall have power within their respective jurisdictions to hear and determine, subject to review as hereinafter provided, all questions of exemption under this act, and all questions of or claims for including or discharging individuals or classes of individuals from the selective draft, which shall be made under rules and regulations prescribed by the President, except any and every question or claim for including or excluding or discharging persons or classes of persons from the selective draft under the provisions of this act authorizing the President to exclude or discharge from the selective draft "Persons engaged in industries, including agriculture, found to be necessary to the maintenance of the Military Establishment, or the effective operation of the military forces, or the maintenance of national interest during the emergency."

The President is hereby authorized to establish additional boards, one in each Federal judicial district of the United States, consisting of such number of citizens, not connected with the Military Establishment, as the President may determine, who shall be appointed by the President. The President is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to establish more than one such board in any Federal judicial district of the United States, or to establish one such board

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