Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 55 Part 2.djvu/769

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PROCLAMATIONS-MAY 15, 26 , 1941 May 26, 1941 [No. 2486] 50U.S.C., app.§I 301-318. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington this fifteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and forty-one, [SEAL] and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-fifth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President CORDELL HULL Secretary of State SECOND REGISTRATION DAY BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, ap- proved September 16, 1940 (54 Stat. 885), declares that 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; WHEREAS the said Act contains, in part, the following provisions: "SEC. 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 submit to registration at 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.

"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 National 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; mid- shipmen, United States Naval Academy; cadets, United States Coast Guard Academy; men who have been accepted for admit- tance (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 rep- resentatives, 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 1644 [55 STAT.