nineteen hundred and seventeen, and continuing until the termination of the emergency, all enlisted men of the Army of the United States in active service whose base pay does not exceed $21 per month shall receive an increase of $15 per month; those whose base pay is $24, an increase of $12 per month; those whose base pay is $30, $36, or $40, an increase of $8 per month; and those whose base pay is $45 or more, an increase of $6 per month: Provided, That the increases of pay herein authorized shall not enter into the computation of the continuous-service pay.

SEC. 11. That all existing restrictions upon the detail, detachment, and employment of officers and enlisted men of the Regular Army are hereby suspended for the period of the present emergency.

SEC. 12. That the President of the United States, as Commander in Chief of the Army, is authorized to make such regulations governing the prohibition of alcoholic liquors in or near military camps and to the officers and enlisted men of the Army as he may from time to time deem necessary or advisable: Provided, That no person, corporation, partnership, or association shall sell, supply, or have in his or its possession any intoxicating or spirituous liquors at any military station, cantonment, camp, fort, post, officers' or enlisted men's club, which is being used at the time, for military purposes under this Act, but the Secretary of War may make regulations permitting the sale and use of intoxicating liquors for medicinal purposes. It shall be unlawful to sell any intoxicating liquor, including beer, ale, or wine, to any officer or member of the military forces while in uniform, except as herein provided. Any person, corpora tion, partnership, or association violating the provisions of this section or the regulations made thereunder shall, unless otherwise punishable under the Articles of War, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and be punished by a fine of not more than $1,000 or imprisonment for not more than twelve months, or both, SEC. 13. That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized, empowered, and directed during the present war to do everything by him deemed necessary to suppress and prevent the keeping or setting up of houses of ill fame, brothels, or bawdy houses within such distance as he may deem needful of any military camp, station, fort, post, cantonment, training, or mobilization place, and any person, corporation, partnership, or association receiving or permitting to be received for immoral purposes any person into any place, structure, or building used for the purpose of lewdness, assignation, or prostitution within such distance of said places as may be designated, or shall permit any such person to remain for immoral purposes in any such place, structure, or building as aforesaid, or who shall violate any order, rule, or regulation issued to carry out the object and purpose of this section shall, unless otherwise punishable under the Articles of War, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and be punished by a fine of not more than $1,000, or imprisonment for not more than twelve months, or both.

SEC. 14. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby suspended during the period of this emergency.

Approved, May 18, 1917.

II. SECTIONS 37, 125, AND 337, CRIMINAL CODE OF THE UNITED

STATES.

Any person who shall make or be a party to the making of any false statement or certificate as to the fitness or liability of himself or any other person for service under the provisions of this act, or regulations made by the President thereunder, or otherwise evades or aids another to evade the requirements of this act or of said regulations, or who, in any manner, shall fail or neglect fully to perform any duty required of him in the execution of this act, shall, if not subject to military law, be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction in the district court of the United States having jurisdiction thereof, be punished by imprisonment for not more than one year, or, if subject to military law, shall be tried by court-martial and suffer such punishment as a courtmartial may direct. (Sec. VI, act approved May 18, 1917.)

If two or more persons conspire either to commit any offense against the United States, or to defraud the United States in any manner or for any purpose, and one or more of such parties do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, each of the parties to such conspiracy shall be fined not more than $10,000, or imprisoned not more than two years, or both. (Sec. 37, Criminal Code of United States.)

Whoever, having taken an oath before a competent tribunal, officer, or person, in any case in which a law of the United States authorizes an oath to be administered, that he will testify, declare, depose, or certify truly, or that any written testimony, declaration, deposition, or certificate by him subscribed, is true, shall willfully and contrary to such oath state or subscribe any material matter which he does not believe to be true, is guilty of perjury, and shall be fined not more than $2,000 and imprisoned not more than five years. (Sec. 125, Criminal Code of United States.)

Whoever directly commits any act constituting an offense defined in any law of the United States, or aids, abets, counsels, commands, induces, or procures its commission is a principal. (Sec. 332, Criminal Code of United States.)

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INDEX TO REGULATIONS.

Adjutants general, State:

[References are to sections.]

Delivery of copies of registration cards to district boards, 40.
Duties to be performed by governor in absence, 48.

Notification to persons selected, 48.

Alien enemies:

Postponement of physical examination, 16.
Appeals to district boards:

Government, 27.

Government, procedure before district board, 43.
Individual, 26.

Individual, procedure before district board, 41.

Jurisdiction of board, 38.

Appeals to President:

Law authorizing, 46.

Procedure, 47.

Boards, district:

Appeals to President, 47.

Certification of persons called and not exempted, 48.

Composition, 34.

Designation, 33.

Duties in connection with industrial and agricultural discharges, 44.

Boards, local-Continued.

County, 2 (a).
Designation, 3.

Examination of registration cards, 8.
Executive officer, 7.

Filing system, 24.

Jurisdiction, 2.

Law authorizing hearing of exemptions, 17.

Law establishing, 1.

Meetings, 7.

Not to conduct physical examination of relatives, 16.
Oath, 7.

Organization, 7.

Qualifications of members, 4.
Records open to inspection, 27.
Refusal to accept appointment, 6.
Registration cards, custody of, 8.
Registration functions, 8.
Resignations, 6.

Rules of procedure, 7.

States having no county administrative organization, 2 (b).
Time limit for decisions, 22.

Hearing by board other than that having jurisdiction, 29.

Industrial, 44.

Mariners, 20 (g).

Members of religious sects, 20 (i).

Officers, county and municipal, 20 (a).

Persons employed in transmission of mails, 20 (c).

Persons physically disabled, 16.