Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 56 Part 2.djvu/872

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PROCLAMATIONS-MAY 20, 22, 1942 instructions received from the United States Army or other United States authority. 2. The movements of vessels within the Padre Island Sea Range Area shall be subject to supervision, either through sur- face craft or aircraft. 3. All United States Government authorities shall place at the disposal of the Army authorities their facilities for aiding in the enforcement of these regulations. 4. Should any vessel or person within the said Area disregard these regulations, or regulations issued pursuant hereto, or fail to obey an order of the United States Army authority, or perform any act threatening the efficiency of Army training or defenses or the safety of navigation, or take any action therein inimical to the defense of the United States, such vessel or person may be subjected to the force necessary to require compliance, and may be liable to detention or arrest, or penalties or forfeiture, in accordance with law. The Secretary of War is charged with the enforcement of these regulations and he may prescribe such additional regulations as may be necessary to meet local conditions. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this 20 th day of May in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-two, and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-sixth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. FIFTH REGISTRATION DAY BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES A PROCIAMATION WHEREAS the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 (54 Stat. 885), as amended by the Act of December 20, 1941 (Public Law 360, 77th Cong., 55 Stat. 844), contains, in part, the following pro- visions: "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 other male person residing in the United States, who, on the day or days fixed for the first or any subsequent registration, is between the ages of eighteen and sixty-five, 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 here- under."

"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 Supervision of movements. Aid in enforcement of regulations. Penalties. Enforcement by Secretary of War. May 22, 1942 IN-. 2&5al 50 U. S. C., app. § 301-318; Sllpp. I. §§302-315 . Ante, pp. 30ao 386, 724. 1018 . 1959 56 STAT.]