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VOLUME 5

REGISTER
1934

NUMBER 182

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Washington, Wednesday, September 18, 1940
The President R egistration D ay BY THE PRESIDENT OP THE UNITED STATES

A PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS the Congress has enacted and I have this day approved the Selec tive Training and Service Act of 1940, which declares th at it is imperative to increase and train the personnel of the armed forces of the United States and that in a free society the obligations and privileges of military training and service should be shared generally in accordance with a fair and just system of selective compulsory military training and service;
and WHEREAS the said Act contains, in part, the following provisions:
S ec. 2. Except as otherwise provided in this Act, it shall be the duty of every male citizen of the United States, and of every male alien residing in the United States, who, on the day or days fixed for the first or any subsequent registration, is between the ages of twenty-one and thirty-six, to present himself for and sub mit to registration a t such time or times and place or places, and in such manner and in such age group or groups, as shall be determined by rules and regulations prescribed hereunder.

S ec. 5. a Commissioned officers, warrant officers, pay clerks, and enlisted men of the Regular Army, the Navy, the Marine Corps, the Coast Guard, the Coast and Geodetic Survey, the Public Health Service, the federally recognized active National Guard, the Officers Reserve Corps, the Regular Army Reserve, the En listed Reserve Corps, the Naval Reserve, and the Marine Corps Reserve; cadets, United States Military Academy; mid shipmen, United States Naval Academy;
cadets, United States Coast Guard Acad emy; men who have been accepted for admittance commencing with the aca demic year next succeeding such accept ance to the United States Military Acad emy as cadets, to the United States Naval
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Academy as midshipmen, or to the United States Coast Guard Academy as cadets, THE PRESIDENT
but only during the continuance of such acceptance; cadets of the advanced Proclamation:
course, senior division, Reserve Officers Registration Day, October 16, Training Corps or Naval Reserve Officers 1940____________________
Training Corps; and diplomatic repre Executive Order:
sentatives, technical attaches of foreign Alaska, partial revocation of embassies and legations, consuls general, land withdrawal and reser consuls, vice consuls, and consular agents vation for use as air naviga of foreign countries, residing in the tion site________________
United States, who are not citizens of the United States, and who have not declared RULES, REGULATIONS, their intention to become citizens of the ORDERS
United States, shall not be required to be registered under section 2 and shall be re T itle 7A griculture:
lieved from liability for training and serv Agricultural Adjustment Ad ice under section 3 b ministration:

Cotton marketing quotas for 1941-42, proclamation by S ec. 10 a The President is author Secretary of Agriculture-1
ized T itle 10Ar m y : W ar D epartment:
1 to prescribe the necessary rules Personnel; enlistment of flying and regulations to carry out the provi cadets___
sions of this Act;
T itle 26I nternal R evenue :

Chapter IBureau of Internal 4 to utilize the services of any or Revenue:
all departments and any and all officers Excise tax on employers under or agents of the United States and to the Federal unemploy accept the services of all officers and ment tax act__________
agents of the several States, Territories, Miscellaneous excise t a x e s , and the District of Columbia and sub warehousing of distilled divisions thereof in the execution of this spirits______________
Act;
T itle 38 P ensions , B onuses and

S ec. 14 a Every person shall be
deemed to have notice of the require ments of this Act upon publication by the President of a proclamation or other public notice fixing a time for any regis tration under section 2.

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V eterans R elief :

Chapter IVeterans Adminis tration:
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T itle 49T ransportation and R ailroads:

Interstate Commerce Commis sion:
Districts established pursuant to Motor Carrier Act of 1935___ ______________ 3728

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN
D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of tlfe authority vested in me by the aforesaid Selective Training and Service NOTICES
Act of 1940, do proclaim the following:
Department of Agriculture:
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The first registration under the Se Federal Security Agency:
lective Training and Service Act of 1940
Michigan, counties designated shall take place on Wednesday, the six for tenant purchase loans- 3735
teenth day of October, 1940, between the Continued on next page : hours of 7 A. M. and 9 P.M .
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