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 [54 STAT. authority vested in me by the aforesaid Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, do proclaim the following: Alaska. 1. The first registration under the Selective Training and Service date and time.t ' Act of 1940 for the Territory of Alaska shall take place in such Terri- tory on Wednesday, the twenty-second day of January, 1941, between the hours of 7:00 A. M. and 9:00 P. M. Registration of male 2. Every male person (other than persons excepted by section 5 (a) and ;exception 21 of the aforesaid Act and those previously registered pursuant to the said Proclamation of September 16, 1940, or pursuant to the Proclama- Ante, pp . 887, 2739, tion issued by me on the first day of October, 1940, providing for regis- 27 45 . tration for the Territory of Hawai, or pursuant to the proclamation An, p. 2747. issued by me on the eighth day of October, 1940, providing for regis- tration for Puerto Rico) who is a citizen of the United States residing in, or on January 22, 1941, is within, the Territory of Alaska, or who is an alien residing in such Territory, and who on the registration date fixed herein has attained the twenty-first anniversary of the date of his birth and has not attained the thirty-sixth anniversary of the date of his birth, is required to and shall on that date present himself for and submit to registration at the duly designated place of registration within the precinct, district, or registration area in which he has his home or in which he may happen to be on that date. Every such citizen and alien residing in the Territory of Alaska who is not within the Territory of Alaska on the registration date fixed herein shall within five days after his return to the Territory of Alaska present ecial cases o himself for and submit to registration. The provisions of Section restation XIV entitled "Special Cases of Registration", of Volume Two of the Selective Service Regulations prescribed by Executive Order No. 8545 of September 23, 1940, shall, so far as they may be applicable, govern the registration of those who on account of sickness or other causes beyond their control are unable to present themselves for registration at the designated places of registration on the registration date fixed herein. ebservanceofrules, 3. Every person subject to registration is required to familiarize himself with the rules and regulations governing registration and to comply therewith. Facilties for regis- 4. I call upon the Governor of the Territory of Alaska to provide tr. suitable and sufficient places of registration and to provide suitable and necessary registration boards to effect such registration. ernorvocers, etcO.f 5. I further call upon the Governor of the Territory of Alaska and all officers and agents of the Territory of Alaska and subdivisions thereof to do and perform all acts and services necessary to accom- Lo4cl election offl- plish effective and complete registration; and I especially call upon oticdtizens. all local election officials and other patriotic citizens to offer their services as members of the boards of registration. Timeofforregstra- 6. In order that there may be full cooperation in carrying into effect the purposes of said Act, I urge all employers and government agencies of all kinds-Federal and local-to give those under their charge sufficient time off in which to fulfill the obligations of registra- tion incumbent on them under the said Act. IN WITNESS 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 twelfth day of November in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty, and [SEAL] of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-fifth. By the President: CODEZLL HULL Scretary of Stats. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT PROCLAMATIONS-NOV. 12, 1940 2762

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