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58 STAT. ] PROCLAMATIONS-SEPT. 17, 1944 1151 "SEC. 10 (a) The President is authorized- "(1) to prescribe the necessary rules and regulations to carry out the provisions of this Act;"

"(4) to utilize the services of any or all departments and any and all officers or agents of the United States and to accept the services of all officers and agents of the several States, Territories, and the District of Columbia and subdivisions thereof in the execution of this Act;"

"SEC. 14 . (a) Every person shall be deemed to have notice of the requirements of this Act upon publication by the President 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 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 * * *"; WHEREAS registrations, under the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 and its amendments, of male citizens of the United States, and of male persons residing within the continental United States, the Territories of Alaska and Hawaii, and in Puerto Rico, have hereto- fore taken place pursuant to proclamations issued by me on September 16, 1940, October 1, 1940, October 8, 1940, November 12, 1940, May 26, 1941, January 5, 1942, March 19, 1942, May 22, 1942, and No- vember 17, 1942; WHEREAS registrations, under the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 and its amendments, of male citizens only who were out- side the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico and had not been registered, have heretofore taken place pursuant to the proclamation issued by me on October 26, 1943; WHEREAS section 15 (b) of the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, as amended by the act of July 1, 1944 (58 Stat. 720), provides that the term "United States", when used in the said Act in a geographical sense, shall include the Virgin Islands; and WHEREAS it is advisable to accomplish expeditiously the registra- tion of every male person other than a citizen of the United States between the ages of eighteen and forty-five years who is residing in the Virgin Islands and is now subject to registration under the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, as amended: NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, as amended, do proclaim the following: 1. The registration of all male aliens and persons other than citizens of the United States residing in the Virgin Islands of the United States who have not been registered and who on October 31, 1944, shall have attained or thereafter shall attain the eighteenth anniversary of the day of their birth, and who on October 31, 1944, shall not have at- tained the forty-fifth anniversary of the day of their birth, shall take place between the hours of 9 a. m. and 5 p. m. on the days hereinafter designated for their registration as follows: 14 U. S. C., Supp. III, § 308. 54 Stat. 2739, 2745, 2747, 2760; 55 Stat. 1644; 56 Stat. 1929, 1937, 1959, 1982. 57 Stat. 756. 54 Stat. 885. 50U.S.C.app. §§ 301-318; Supp. III , §} 302-315 . Ante, pp. 720. 798 Registration of des- ignated persons; time.