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PROCLAMATIONS-OCT. 1, 1940 Ante, p. 2739. Post, pp. 2760, 2747. Hawaii. First regitntion, dat and time. and in such manner and in such age group or groups, as shall be determined by rules and regulations prescribed hereunder.

"SEC. 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 Na- tional Guard, the Officers' Reserve Corps, the Regular Army Reserve, the Enlisted Reserve Corps, the Naval Reserve, and the Marine Corps Reserve; cadets, United States Military Academy; midshipmen, United States Naval Academy; cadets, United States Coast Guard Academy; men who have been accepted for admittance (commencing with the academic year next succeeding such acceptance) to the United States Military Academy as cadets, to the United States Naval Academy as midshipmen, or to the United States Coast Guard Academy as cadets, but only during the continuance of such acceptance; cadets of the advanced course, senior division, Reserve Officers' Training Corps or Naval Reserve Officers' Training Corps; and diplomatic representatives, technical attaches of foreign embassies and legations, consuls general, consuls, vice consuls, and consular agents of foreign countries, residing in the United States, who are not citizens of the United States, and who have not declared their intention to become citizens of the United States, shall not be required to be registered under section 2 and shall be relieved from liability for training and service under section 3 (b)."

"SEC. 10 (a) The President is authorized- (1) to prescribe the necessary rules and regulations to carry out the provisions of this Act;"

"(4) to utilize the services of any or all departments and any and all officers or agents of the United States and to accept the services of all officers and agents of the several States, Terri- tories, and the District of Columbia and subdivisions thereof in the execution of this Act;"

"SEC. 14 (a) Every person shall be deemed to have notice of the requirements 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."

WHEREAS on the sixteenth day of September, 1940, I issued a proclamation calling upon all persons subject to registration in the several States of the United States and in the District of Columbia to present themselves for and submit to registration as provided by, and in accordance with, the aforesaid Act of Congress; and WHEREAS such proclamation provides that "The times and places for registration in Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico will be fixed in subsequent proclamations."; NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, Presi- dent of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the au- thority vested in me by the aforesaid Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, do proclaim the following: 1. The first registration under the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 for the Territory of Hawaii shall take place in such Terri- toy on Sturday, the twenty-ixh day of October, 1940, between the hoursof 7:00 A. M. and 9:00 P. M. 2746 [54 STAT.