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756 PROCLAMATIONS-OCT. 26, 1943 [i57 STAT. of a proclamation or other public notice fixing a time for any registration under section 2."

WHEREAS section 208 of the Coast Guard Auxiliary and Reserve 14U. . c. , Supp. Act of 1941, approved February 19, 1941 (55 Stat. 9), provides, in part, as follows: "Members of the [Coast Guard] Reserve, other than temporary members as provided for in section 207 hereof, shall receive the same exemption from registration and liability for training and service as members of the Naval Reserve * * *"; 54 stat. 885 . WHEREAS pursuant to the Selective Training and Service Act of 1§301-318isSuppC .^' 1940, as amended, and to the rules and regulations prescribed there- f 3023 15 .1 39 under, I issued and caused to be published proclamations on various 59. ' dates during the period commencing September 16, 1940 and ending 54 Stat. 2739, 2745, November 17, 1942, wherein I fixed the times and places for the 1M4; 56 Stat. 1929 registration under the said Act of every male citizen of the United 1937 1959,1982. States between the ages of eighteen and sixty-five years regardless of his whereabouts other than persons excepted by section 5 (a) of that 54 stat. 887. Act and by section 208 of the Coast Guard Auxiliary and Reserve 50 U. . C., Supp. I, app. §305 (a). Act of 1941; 4 Ut. b2.,Supp. WHEREAS under the Selective Service Regulations every male n. §30. citizen of the United States subject to registration who was not within one of the several States of the United States, the District of Colum- bia, Alaska, Hawaii, or Puerto Rico during the time or on the regis- tration date fixed in the proclamations previously issued by me is required to present himself for and submit to registration after his return to or for the first time he enters any State of the United States, the District of Columbia, Alaska, Hawaii, or Puerto Rico; and WHEREAS it is necessary in the national interest and for the most effective prosecution of the war to accomplish expeditiously the regis- tration of every male citizen of the United States between the ages of eighteen and forty-five years, who has not been registered under the several proclamations issued by me because he has not returned to or entered the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii, or Puerto Rico: 4 Stat. 88. NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, the 630-3'18; supp. np President of the Uhited States of America, acting under and by virtue 15102-315 . Ae, pp. 1, 391, of the authority vested in me by the Selective Training and Service 569. Act of 1940, as amended, do proclaim the following: Persons required to 1. The registration of all male citizens of the United States outside register; deaignation of regitration days the continental United States, the Territory of Alaska, the Territory of Hawaii, and Puerto Rico, who have not been registered and who on December 31, 1943, shall have attained or who thereafter shall attain the eighteenth anniversary of the day of their birth and who on December 31, 1943, shall not have attained the forty-fifth anni- versary of the day of their birth, shall take place on the days herein- after designated for their registration, as follows: (a) Those who were born after December 31, 1898, but before Janu- ary 1, 1926, shall be registered on any day during the period commenc- ing Tuesday, November 16, 1943, and ending Friday, December 31, 1943. (b) Those who were born on or after January 1, 1926, shall be registered on the day they attain the eighteenth anniversary of the day of their birth: Provided, That if such anniversary falls on a Sun- day or a legal holiday their registration may take place on the day following that which is not a Sunday or a legal holiday.