1852 PROoLAi1AT10Ns, 1918. Force and Marine Corps Reserve while in the service of the United States; officers commissioned in the Army of the United States under the provisions of this Act; persons who, prior to any day set for ana p asv registration by the President hereunder, have registered under the ’ ' terms of this ct or under the terms of the resolution entitled "Jomt resolution providing for the re tration for milit;-rly service of all male persons citizens of the éited States and male persons residing in the United States who have, since the fifth dag o June, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and on or before the a(y set for the registration by proclamation by the President, attains the age of twenty-one years, in accordance with such rules and regulations as the President may prescribe imder the terms of the Act aplpliioved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, entitled Act to authorize the President to increase temporarig the Military Establishment of the United States,"’ approved ay twentieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, whether c&ed for service or not; and diplomatic representatives, technical attaches of foreign embassies and legations, consuls general, consuls, vice consuls, and consular agents of fore' countries, residing in the United States, who are not citizens of lla: United States, to present themselves for and submit to registration under the rovisions of this Act; and every such person shall be seemed to Ihave notice of the requirements of this Act upon the publication of any such proclamation or any such other public notice as aforesaid `venubiy the President or by his direction; and any person who shalhlwilf y fail or refuse to present himself for registration or to submit thereto as herein provided shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction in a district co1u·t of the United States having jiuisdiction thereof, be pimished by imprisonment for not more than one year and shall thereupon be dug registered: Provided, That in the call of the docket precedence sh be given, in courts trying the same, to the trial of criminal w§§§t’f'““ '°"¥°°* proceedings under thm Act: Provided further, That persons shall e subject to registration as herein provided who shall have attained their eighteenth birthday and who shall not have attained their forty-sixth·birthday on or before the day set for the registration in - any such proclamation by the President or any such other public notice given by him or by his direction, and all persons so re tered shall be and remain subject to draft into the forces hereby auaibrized ,,§’,,‘§_"°°"*"""‘ ”‘*'°"* unless exempted or excused herefrom as in this Act provided: Provided further, That the President may at such intervals as he may desire from time to time require all male persons who have attained the age of eighteen years since the last preceding date of re tration and on or before the next date set for registration by progiimation by the President, except such persons as are exempt from registgation hereunder, to regigtrir the same manner and subject to H H H the same requirements an 'a `ties as those reviousl r tered Why mm under the terms hereof: And lprovided further,pThat inythdgzsase of temporary absence from actua place of legal residence of any person liab e to registration as provided herein, such re tration ma be maFde*by*mail under regulations to be prescribediéy the President. ,.§,’,,°L*;*·=*,¥z:,:,£,,·*·¤v,,*g sec. 6. rm me resident is hereby Jauthorized to utilize are S*j1';,f*gf*g•§f· °*”· service of ang or all dzzipartrnents and any or all officers or agents of ' the United tates_an of the several States, Territories, and the District of Columbia, and subdivisions thereof, in the execution of this Act, and all officers_and agents of the United States and of the Dm com several States, Temtcries, and subdivisions thereof, and of the Y ‘ District of Columbia, and all gprrsons desin ated or a pointed under regulations prescribed by the esident, w ether sucli) appointments are made by the President himself or by the governor or other officer
