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1794 ·PROCLAMA'1`ION·S, 1918. President, attained the age of twenty-one years, shall be subject to registration in accordance with regulations to be prescribed by the President, and that upon proclamation by the President, stating the time and place of such registration, rt . shall be the duty of all such persons, except such persons as are Ex°°p¤°°°` exempt from re 'stration under the Act of May eighteenth, nineteen hundred] and seventeen, and any Act or Acts amendatory thereof, to present themselves for and submit to registration under the rovisions of said Act approved Ma eighteenth, nineteen hundred) and seventeen, and they shall ge registered in the same manner and subject to the same requirements and N t be t bot liabilities as those previousgg registered under the terms of said ¤»§¤°.£'fE£° 3 Act: PROVIDED, That cse persons registered under the provisions of this Act shall be placed at the bottom of the list of those liable for military service, in the several classes to which they are assigned, under such rules and regulations as the Presi- Day to be set by dent may prescribe. l>¤’¤¢*¤¤¤¤¤¤· Sec. 2. That after the day set under section one hereof for the registration by proclamation by the President at such intervals as the President may from time to time prescribe, the President may re uire that all male ersons, citizens of the United States, and ah male persons residing in the United States, who have attained the age of twenty-one years since the last pre- 1, em ns ceding date of regktration, and on or before the next day set for the registration y proclamation by the President, except such persons as are exempt from registration under the Act of May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and any Act or Acts amendatory thereof, shall be registered in the same manner and subject to the same requirements and liabilities as those ,,,°§°'§§.§‘,t§j‘§.,?,,g,'*;’§_i" reviously registered under the terms of said Act: PROVIDED, That stu ents who are preparing for the ministry in recognized theological or divinity schools, and students who are reparin for the practice of medicine and surge in recognized) medicfl schools, at the time of the approval of Act s all be exem t from the selective draft prescribed in the Act of May eighteentli, nineteen hundred and seventeen. mil m:,lH Sec. 3 That all such persons when registered shall be liable ‘*"°"· to military service and to draft under the terms of said Act approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, under such regulations as the President may prescribe not inconsistent _ with the terms of said Act. ¤r§,°"°° Ad °°°h°°` Sec. 4. That all such persons shall be subject to the terms and provisions and liabilities of said Act a proved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, in all respects as if the had been registered under the terms of said Act, and every such person shal be deemed to have notice of the requirements of said Act and of this joint resolution upon the publication of any such Vproclamation by the President. ""“· *’·°°· AND HEREAS the act of Congress approved May eighteenth, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, entitled "An act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States", contains the following rovisions: wfutglsrgegggt W ***1* Sec. 5. * * * And any person who shall wsfully fail or ` refuse present himself for registration or to submit thereto as herein provided, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction in the district court of the United States having jurisdiction thereof, be punished by imprisonment for not more than one year, and shall thereu on be dul registered: PROVIDED, That in the call of the socket precedrence shall be