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PROCLAMATIONS THIRD REGISTRATION DAY BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, ap- proved September 16, 1940 (54 Stat. 885), declares that it is impera- tive to increase and train the personnel of the armed forces of the United States and that in a free society the obligation and privileges of military training and service should be shared generally in accord- ance with a fair and just system of selective compulsory military training and service; WHEREAS the Act amending the said Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, approved December 20, 1941 (Public Law 360, 77th Cong.), provides for the extension of liability for military service and for the registration of the man power of the Nation; WHEREAS the said Act, as amended, contains, in part, the follow- ing provisions: "SEC. 2. Except as otherwise provided in this Act, it shall be the duty of every male citizen of the United States, and of every other male person residing in the United States, who, on the day or days fixed for the first or any subsequent registration, is between the ages of eighteen and sixty-five, to present himself for and submit to registration at such time or times and place or places, and in such manner and in such age group or groups, as shall be determined by rules and regulations prescribed here- under."

"SEC. 5 . (a) Commissioned officers, warrant officers, pay clerks, and enlisted men of the Regular Army the Navy, the Marine Corps, the Coast Guard, the Coast and Geodetic Survey, the Public Health Service, the federally recognized active Na- tional Guard, the Officers' Reserve Corps, the Regular Army Reserve, the Enlisted Reserve Corps, the Naval Reserve, and the Marine Corps Reserve; cadets, United States Military Academy; midshipmen, United States Naval Academy; cadets, United States Coast Guard Academy; men who have been accepted for admittance (commencing with the academic year next succeeding such acceptance) to the United States Military Academy as cadets, to the United States Naval Academy as midshipmen, or to the United States Coast Guard Academy as cadets, but only during the continuance of such acceptance; cadets of the advanced course, senior division, Reserve Officers' Training Corps or Naval Reserve Officers' Training Corps; and diplomatic representatives, technical attaches of foreign embassies and legations, consuls general, consuls, vice consuls, and consular agents of foreign oountries, and persons in other 1929 January 5,1942 [No. 2635] 50 U. S. C., app. §§ 301-318; Supp. I , §§ 302-316 . Ante, pp. 309, 38, 724,018 . 5 Stat. 844. 0 U.IS. C ., Supp.I, Bpp. if 302-315. 6fT14%-4- -4- . U---