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PROCLAMATIONS—APR. 17, 1952

WHEREAS under authority vested in me by title I of the Selective Service Act of 1948 I provided by Proclamation No. 2799 of July 20, 1948, for the 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 of male citizens of the United States and other male persons residing in the United States subject to registration under section 3 of the said title; WHEREAS the 1951 Amendments to the Universal Military Training and Service Act, Public Law 51, Eighty-second Congress, approved June 19, 1951, amended section 1(a) of title I of the Selective Service Act of 1948, as amended, to read as follows:

62 Stat. 604. 50 USC app. 451471. 62 Stat., P t. 2, p. 1531. 50 USC app. 453 note.

65 Stat. 75. 50 USC app. 461.

"Section 1. (a) This Act may be cited as the'Universal Military Training and Service Act'."

WHEREAS under authority vested in me by title I of the Universal Military Training and Service Act, as amended, I provided by Proclamation No. 2938 of August 16, 1951, for the registration in Guam of male citizens of the United States and other male persons in Guam, and by Proclamation No. 2937 of August 16, 1951, for the registration in the Canal Zone of male citizens of the United States in the Canal Zone, subject to registration under section 3 of the said title; WHEREAS every male citizen of the United States subject to registration who was not within one of the several States of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Territory of Alaska, the Territory of Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, or the Canal Zone on the day or any of the days fixed for registration in the said proclamations previously issued by me is required to present himself for and submit to registration after he for the first time enters any State of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Territory of Alaska, the Territory of Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, or the Canal Zone; and WHEREAS it is necessary in the national interest to accomplish expeditiously the registration of every male citizen of the United States between the ages of eighteen and twenty-six years who is subject to registration under section 3 of title I of the Universal Military Training and Service Act, as amended, and who has not been registered under the said proclamations issued by me because he has not entered any State of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Territory of Alaska, the Territory of Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, or the Canal Zone: NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, acting 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 all male citizens of the United States outside the several States of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Territory of Alaska, the Territory of Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, and the Canal Zone who have not been registered and who on July 31, 1952, shall have attained or who thereafter shall attain the eighteenth anniversary of the day of their birth and who on July 31, 1952, shall have not attained the twenty-sixth anniversary of the day of their birth shall take place on the day or days hereinafter designated for their registration, as follows: (a) Those who were born on or after August 1, 1926, but not after July 31, 1934, shall be registered on any day during the period commencing Tuesday, July 1, 1952, and ending Thursday, July 31, 1952.

65 Stat. C30, C27. 50 USC app. 453 note. 50 USC app. 453.

50 USC app. 453.

Registration.

65 Stat. 75. 50 USC app. 451471.

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