65 STAT.]
PROCLAMATIONS—AUG. 16, 1951
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2. (a) Every male citizen of the United States other than persons excepted by section 6(a) of title I of the Universal Military Training and Service Act, as amended, and those previously registered pursuant ^"'«' P-^to the said Proclamation of July 20, 1948, who is within the Canal ^il^f ***' ^ ' ' ^• Zone 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) 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 the Canal Zone on that day or any of those days. If he is not in the Canal Zone on the day or any of the days fixed for registration but subsequently enters the Canal Zone, he shall within five days after such entrance present himself for and submit to registration before a duly designated registration official or selective service local board. If he is in the Canal Zone on the day or any of the days fixed for 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. 3. Every person subject to registration is required to familiarize himself with the rules and regulations governing registration and to comply therewith. 4. The duty of any person to present himself for and submit to registration in accordance with any previous proclamation issued under said Act shall not be affected by this proclamation. 5. I call upon the Governor of the Canal Zone, all officers and agents ciarsraSesf a?d of the Canal Zone, and all local boards which, and agents thereof who, employers. are appointed under the provisions of title I of the Universal Military Training and Service Act, as amended, or the regulations prescribed '^" ^- '^^• thereunder, to do and perform all acts and services necessary to accomplish effective and complete registration. 6. I n order that there mtvy be full cooperation in carrying into effect the purposes of title I of the Universal Military Training and Service Act, as amended, I urge all employers and Government agencies of all kinds—Federal 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. I N W I T N E S S WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed. D O N E at the City of Washington this 16th day of August in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-one, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-sixth. HARRY S TRUMAN By the President: JAMES E. W E B B
Acting Secretary of State
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