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" SEC. 15. (a) Every person shall be deemed to have notice of the requirements of this title upon publication by the President of a proclamation or other public notice fixing a time for any registration under section 3." WHEREAS on the twentieth day of July, 1948,1 issued a proclamation calling upon all male persons subject to registration in the several States of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Territories of Alaska and Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands to present themselves for and submit to registration; and WHEREAS by section 1(v) of the 1951 Amendments to the Universal Military Training and Service Act, approved June 19, 1951, the definition of the term "United States", when used in a geographical sense in title I of the Universal Military Training and Service Act, as amended, was extended to include Guam: NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by title I of the Universal Military Training and Service Act, as amended, do proclaim the following: 1. The registration of male citizens of the United States, and other male persons, now or hereafter in Guam, who shall have attained the eighteenth anniversary of the day of their birth and who shall have not attained the twenty-sixth anniversary of the day of their birth shall take place in Guam between the hours of 8:00 A, M. and 5:00 P. M. on the day or days hereinafter designated for their registration, as follows: (a) Every citizen of the United States born on or after September 7, 1925, but not after September 6, 1933, shall be registered on Thursday, the 6th da^ of September, 1951. (b) Every citizen of the United States born after September 6, 1933, shall be registered on the day he attains the eighteenth anniversary of the day of his birth, or within five days thereafter. (c) Every person who is not a citizen of the United States shall be registered on the day or any of the days fixed in this paragraph for the registration of a citizen of the United States of his age or on any day within the period of six months following the day on which he entered any of the following: The continental United States, the Territory of Alaska, the Territory of Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Guam. 2. (a) Every male citizen of the United States and every other male person now or hereafter in Guam, other than persons excepted by or pursuant to section 6(a) of title I of the Universal Military Training and Service Act, as amended, and those previously registered pursuant to the said Proclamation of July 20, 19^8, who is within Guam and who shall have attained the eighteenth 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) I f a person subject to registration is in Guam on the day or any of the days fixed for his registration but because of circumstances beyond his control is unable to present himself 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. If a citizen of the United States subject to registration is not in Guam on the day 76100 O - 52 - 70

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PROCLAMATIONS—AUG. 16, 1951 ^NO«**

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6* Stat., P t. 2, p. 1531.

Ante, p. 87.

Proclamation of registration in Guam. Ante, p. 75.

Noncitizens.

Ante, p. 83. 62 Stat. P t. 2, I. 1531.

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