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 1800 rnocnamarross, isis. p,§’g§m§;,°‘;_° ’°* by Sec. 2. That after the day set under section one hereof for the registration by proclamation by the President at such mter- ` vals as the President may from time to time prescribe, the President may re uire that all male rsons, citizens of the United States, and sill male persons resixig in the United States, who have attained the age of twenty-one years since the last preceding date of registration, and on or before the next day set P‘”"°"’“°”""” for the registration. by Proclamation by the President, except such persons as are exempt: from registration under the Act ot May eighteenth, nineteen undred and seventeen, and any Act or Acts amendatory thereof, shall be registered in the same manner and subject to the same requirements and liabilities as those reviously registered under the terms of said Act: PRO- sng-§Hxgii¤‘ilI¤li°Q.ny VIDED, That students who are preparing for the ministry in recognized theological or divimt schools, and students who are pixlaring for the practice of medicine and surgery in recognized m `cal schools, atthe time of theapproval o · this Act shall be exempt from the selective draft prescribed in the Act of May eighteenth,  hundredand seventeen; °’2,,°§ . Sec. 3. `That all such persons when`re&stered shall be liable ¢*¤·**- to military service andrte draft under ’ eiterms of said Act approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, under such regulations as the President may prescribe not inconsistent wi the terms of said Act. ,,,E°""°"°°* ""”"" Sec. 4. That all such persons shall be subject to the terms and provisions and liabilities of said Act approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, in all respects as if the had been tered under the terms of said Act, and every such person shwbe deemed to have notice of the requirements of said Act pndof  joélnt resoliétion upon the publication of any such, roc amation e President. ‘""‘* " °°‘ AISD WHEREAS, the act of Congress approved May eighteenth, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, entitled "A.n act to authorize the President to increase temporarily] the Military Establishment of the United States", contains the fo owing provisions: ,,,,"“,;‘§‘,Y‘i;';,‘,‘}f‘°' "“‘ Sec. 5. * * * And any person who shall wilfully fail or refuse to presentlhimself for registration or to submit thereto as herein prov1ded,_ shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction in the district court of the United States having jiuisdiction thereof, be unished by imprisonment for not more than one thear, and shalll thereupon be duly ryaisteredz PRO- YIDED, at in the call of the docket prec ence shall be given, m courts  the same, to the trial of criminal premmmm M ceedirégs under this act. * * * mas, r.e:¤i°°;if SE. 6. That the President is hereby authorized to utilize the °°°"• °m°“'°·°‘°· service of any or all departments and any or all officers or agents of the_ United States and 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 Duty wm and of the seyeral States, Territories and subdivisions thereof, ` and of the District of Columbia, and all persons designated or appo1nted_under regulations prescribed by the President whether such appomtments are made by the President  or by the goveiénotiéror ottilier officetp of   or Ti·r1tp)ry to perffprm _ anyu m eexecuono ac,are ere ruireto ‘*“°“°"" °°”f°"‘°‘ perform such duty as the President shall order or direiti, and all such officers and atgents and persons so des` ated or appointed U of shall hereby haye ull authority for all actsldline by them in the - ’° "“"" execution of this act by the direction of the President. Correspondence m the execution of this act may be carried in penalty envelopes bearing the frank of the War Department. Any