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 55 STAT.] 77TH CONG. , 1ST SESS.-CH. 602 -DEC. 20, 1941 SEC. 2. The first sentence of section 3 (a) of such Act, as amended, 4 st'sta., app. is hereby amended to read as follows: i303 (a). "SEO. 3 . (a) Except as otherwise provided in this Act, every male Liabilityfortraining citizen of the United States, and every other male person residi ingin an serice. the United States, who is between the ages of twenty and forty-five at the time fixed for his registration, or who attains the age of twenty after having been required to register pursuant to section 2 of this Act. shall be liable for training and service in the land or naval forces of the United States: Provided,That any citizen or subject of a neutral Provisos country shall be relieved from liability for training and service under etral this Act if, prior to his induction into the land or naval forces, he has made application to be relieved from such liability in the manner prescribed by and in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed by the President, but any person who makes such application shall thereafter be debarred from becoming a citizen of the United States: Provided further, That no citizen or subject of any country who has Eneny aliens. been or who may hereafter be proclaimed by the President to be an alien enemy of the United States shall be inducted for training and service under this Act unless he is acceptable to the land or naval forces." SEO. 3 . Section 4 (a) of such Act, as amended, is hereby amended by 54Stat. 887. inserting before the period at the end thereof the following: ": Pro- 3a04(a). vided further, That in the classification of registrants within the regIats'icsation of jurisdiction of any local board, the registrants of any particular registration may be classified, in the manner prescribed by and in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed by the President, before, together with, or after the registrants of any prior registration or registrations; and in the selection for induction of persons within ndction for the jurisdiction of any local board and within any particular classifi- cation, persons who were registered at any particular registration may be selected, in the manner prescribed by and in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed by the President, before, together with, or after persons who were registered at any prior registration or registrations". SEC. 4. Section 5 (a) of such Act, as amended, is hereby amended by FxiS't 8 r etc. 54 Stat. 887. inserting after the words "foreign countries" a comma an d the follow- o, .S.., Pp. ing: "and per sons in other categories to be specified by the President"a. §3 (a) Paragraph (1) of section 5 (c) of such Act, as amended, is amended 4 st tll ., 2 . by inserting after the word "Governors" a comma, and the following:

a (1). "and all other State officials chosen by the voters of the entire State,'. SEC. 5 . The second sentence of paragraph (1) of section 5 (e) of 64osut', s a.P such Act, as amended, is hereby amended by inserting after " (1)" and 35e 62 after "(2)" the words "of any or all". SEC. 6 . Paragraph (2) of section 5 (e) of such Act, as amended, is A h n e a P- 621- hereby amended to read as follows: "(2) Anything in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding, the Deferment by age President is authorized, under such rules and regulations as he may gro roup. prescribe, to provide for the deferment, by age group, or groups, from training and service under this Act in the land and naval forces of the United States, o thtose men whose age orr ges are such that he finds their deferment to be advisable in the national interest: Pro- Pr " i so. vided, That the President may, upon finding that it is in the national interest, terminate the deferment by age group or groups of any or all of the men so deferred." SEC. 7. Section 15 (a) of such Act, as amended, is hereby amended 5S 8 t 9 g. app. to read as follows: I 315 (a). "(a) The term 'between the ages of twenty and forty-five' shall refer "Betwen" the ages to men who have attained the twentieth anniversary of the day of five." their birth and who have not attained the forty-fifth anniversary of the day of their birth; and other terms designating different age groups shall be construed in a similar manner." 845

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