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MILITARY DRAFT REGISTRATION.| Ail outline of the plan to secure , registration of those subject to | military draft has been sent to the governors of the states, i Gov. Harris has decided upon (the method to be followed in Georgia.! As soon as the bill has been enacted President Wilson will issue ;his proclamation, and this will be placed in the hands of the sheriff, ' chief of the county board. '| There will be a registrar in each militia district, before whom on a * specified day, five days after the 1 presidents proclamatioryill persons • subject to military duty will be 1 required to appear and register, / | each on a card to be furnished at.j the precinct, I *fc1 The cards are to be placed in the (. hands of the Sheriff, and within 1 .fifteen days the draft will be made ] I and forwarded to the state super- j1 in tendon t appointed by Gov. Harris. ]I As soon as this is done the draft- ! c l men will be ordered to assemble ' at the camp designated. j| It is expected that residents of | the voting precincts will volunteer J ! to act as registrars without com- 1 pen sal ion.Persons within the age limits, say 19 to 25 inclusive,who for any cause are unable to go to the pro- 1 | cinet on the designated day, will • be required to make out and mail | his registration card so as to reach the sh or i IT, o r c i ty e 1 erk. I n case of cities of 20,000 population or more, on the day fixed for registration Each person subject will be required to register at his home precinct.Failure tp register on the day mimed will be punished as a mis-domoauor.It is not unlikely that the President’s proclamationSvill be issued this week, and five days later will be registration day.This outline may not be absolutely correct in every detail, but I is near enough so to clearly indicate the workings. ^Tho actual draft, it is supposed, will be practically the same method by which court jurors are drawn. AIL names of thos registered placed in a box and drawn out one at a time until tho required number has been drawn. Those will be the I draf{jpd men ef the first call. j| In the meantime, all who desire to enlist voluntarily can do so.
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Perry Home Journal
Perry, Georgia, US
Thu, May 10, 1917
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