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 PROCLAMATIONS-JULY 20, 1948 anniversary of the day of his birth and who shall have not attained the twenty-sixth anniversary of the day of his birth on the day or any of the days fixed herein for his registration is required to and shall on that day or any of those days present himself for and submit to registration before a duly designated registration official or selective service local board having jurisdiction in the area in which he has his permanent home or in which he may happen to be on that day or any of those days. (b) A person subject to registration may register after the day or days fixed for registration in case he is prevented from registering on that day or any of those days by circumstances beyond his control or because he is not present in any of the several States of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Territory of Alaska, the Terri- tory of Hawaii, Puerto Rico, or the Virgin Islands, on that day or any of those days. If he is not in any of the several States of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Territory of Alaska, the Territory of Hawaii, Puerto Rico, or the Virgin Islands, on the day or any of the days fixed for registration but subsequently enters any of the several States of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Territory of Alaska, the Territory of Hawaii, Puerto Rico, or the Virgin Islands, he shall within five days after such entrance present himself for and submit to registration before a duly designated regis- tration official or selective service local board. If he is in any of the several States of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Territory of Alaska, the Territory of Hawaii, Puerto Rico, or the Virgin Islands, on the day or any of the days fixed for registration but because of circumstances beyond his control is unable to present him- self for and submit to registration on that day or any of those days he shall do so as soon as possible after the cause for such inability ceases to exist. 3. Every person subject to registration is required to familiarize himself with the rules and regulations governing registration and to comply therewith. 4. I call upon the Governors of each of the several States, the Territories of Alaska and Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands and the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and all officers and agents of the United States and all officers and agents of the several States, the Territories of Alaska and Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the District of Columbia, and political subdivisions thereof, and all local boards which, and agents thereof who, may be appointed under the provisions of title I of the Selective Service Act of 1948, or the regulations which may be prescribed there- under, to do and perform all acts and services necessary to accomplish effective and complete registration. 5. In order that there may be full cooperation in carrying into effect the purposes of title I of the Selective Service Act of 1948, I urge all employers and Government agencies of all kinds-Federal, State, territorial and local-to give those under their charge sufficient time in which to fulfill the obligations of registration incumbent upon them under the said Act and this proclamation. 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 20th day of July in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-eight, and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-third. By the President: G C MARSHALL Secretary of State. CS7 (o; .- IT.I; -18 Special registration. Observance of regu- lations. Services of officials. Cooperation of em- ployers. 62 Stat., Pt. 1, p. 604. HARRY S TRUMAN 62 STAT. 1533

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