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Section 4 of the Selective Service Law provides: "The decision of *** District Boards shall be Appeals to final, except that, in accordance with such rules and iii. regulations as the President may prescribe, he may affirm, modify, or reverse any such decision."

Accordingly, the President will consider appeals from the final decisions of District Boards in accordance with the provisions of section 111 hereof.

Section 21. Appeals to the President to be considered when preferred as required by these Regulations and not otherwise.

appeal to Presi

Section 111 of these Regulations prescribes a method Procedure on for appeal to the President of certain classes of cases dent; see sec. 112. finally decided by District Boards. Every practicable safeguard against unusual hardship has been provided. Appeals made direct to Washington on ex parte statements would have to be investigated locally before action. Due to the unavoidable congestion that must necessarily follow this irregular method, such direct appeals can only result in confusion and delay. Therefore appeals to the President when not preferred in the manner prescribed in sections 111 and 112 of these Regulations, must be returned for compliance with those sections.

B. THE PROVOST MARSHAL GENERAL. Section 22.-Office of the Provost Marshal General. Supervision of Under the Secretary of War the Office of the Provost draft. Marshal General is charged with the supervision of all matters relating to the selective draft.

shal General.

Provost Mar- Section 23. No communications concerning pending appeals to the President to be received by administrative officials in Washington.

appeals forbiddeu.

Discussion of All administrative officials of the War Department engaged in the execution of the Selective Service Law are hereby directed to decline to discuss cases in respect of which an appeal to the President is pending, or to entertain any communications, suggestions, or additional evidence or statements concerning them.

Discussion

claims forbidden.

Section 24. No communication concerning particular cases pending before District or Local Boards to be received by administrative officials in Washington.

So

of The law and regulations place the matter of deferred
classification within the jurisdiction of Local and District
Boards. There is no authority in any other official to
interfere with this jurisdiction in particular cases.
to interfere would be subversive of the letter and spirit
of the Selective Service Law and these Regulations. All
officials of the War Department engaged in the execu-
tion of the Selective Service Law are hereby directed to
decline to discuss cases pending before Local or District
Boards or to entertain any communications, suggestions,
or additional evidence or statements concerning them.
Section 25. Correspondence rules of the Office of
the Provost Marshal General.

Correspondence

to be with Adju

sec. 31.

Rule A. Except as specifically provided in these Regutants General; see lations, all communications intended for the Provost Marshal General concerning the execution of the Selective Service Law within a State emanating from individuals within the State or from Local and District Boards or other officials engaged within any State in the execution of the Selective Service Law must be directed to the Adjutant General of the State for reference to the Provost Marshal General. Correspondence sent in violation of this rule to the Office of the Provost Marshal General will be returned to the writer.

Authorized centers of information.

Requests

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ferred to Adjutant

Rule B. The Office of the Provost Marshal General can give no opinion direct to individuals concerning the circumstances of an individual case nor can it make rulings at the instance of an individual writing to the Office of the Provost Marshal General direct on any phase of the Selective Service Law. Each Local and District Board and the Legal Advisory Boards connected with each Local Board are the centers of information for the community over which the Local or District Board has jurisdiction. Individuals must be remitted for information to local authorities, who, if they can not answer the question asked, will promptly proceed as required by Rule C.

Rule C. Local and District Boards will honor proper General of State. requests for information from individuals. Whenever

shal General.

a Local or District Board receives a request for informa- Provost
tion which it can not authoritatively answer, or when-
ever circumstances arise which require the decision of
higher authority, the Local or District Board will imme-
diately report the case to the Adjutant General of the
State with a request for the necessary information or
decision.

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Rule D. The Adjutant General of a State will scan Requests all communications received in accordance with Rules Marshal General. A, B, and C. Such as can be answered will be returned to the writer with the information desired. Such as can not be so answered will be immediately forwarded to the Office of the Provost Marshal General. When a request for a ruling or for administrative action arises from circumstances so urgent as to demand immediate action, the telegraph will be used.

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Rule E. Whenever a request for information is received from State Headquarters by the Office of the Provost Marshal General, an answer will be prepared and returned within 12 hours, and wherever a general ruling rulings. results, such general ruling will be circulated to every Local and District Board in the United States, by telegram where urgent, and in any case by bulletins of compiled rulings which will be issued from the Office of the Provost Marshal General from time to time.

Rule F. Whenever an individual feels that he has a grievance against a board or other information which he desires to report to higher authority, he should address his letter to the Adjutant General of the State. Communications of this kind which require the action of the Provost Marshal General should be forwarded to the Provost Marshal General containing recommendation and remarks by State Headquarters.

C. STATE HEADQUARTERS.

Section 26. Authority of Governors and of officials and other persons designated by Governors or by the President to perform duties in the execution of the Selective Service Law.

Section 6 of the Selective Service Law provides:

Submission of complaints.

local

6,

Selective Service

"That the President is hereby authorized to utilize the services of any Use of or all departments and any or all officers or agents of the United States officials; sec. and of the several States, Territories, and the District of Columbia, Law. and subdivisions thereof, in the execution of this Act, and all officers and agents of the United States and the several States, Territories, and subdivisions thereof, and of the District of Columbia, and all persons designated or appointed under regulations prescribed by the President, whether such appointments are made by the President himself or by the governor or other officer of any State or Territory to perform any duty in the execution of this Act, are hereby required to perform such duty as the President shall order or direct, and all such officers and agents and persons so designated or appointed shall hereby have full authority for all acts done by them in the execution of this Act by the direction of the President

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head- Section 27. General duties of Governors.

Supervisory

ernor.

The Governors shall be charged with general superunction of Gov-vision over all matters arising in the execution of the selective draft within their States. The determination of exemptions and deferred classifications is within the exclusive jurisdiction of Local and District Boards, subject only to review by the President, but all other functions and duties of boards, departments, officers, agents, and persons within the State, except departments, officers, and agents of the United States not appointed, designated, or detailed under authority of the Selective Service Law, shall be under the direction and supervision of the Governor.

Governor's

duty.

Governor

responsible

for

Medical Advisory

Officer of Medical Reserve Corps to assist.

Section 28. Governors charged with responsibility for organization of Medical and Legal Advisory Boards.

Governors are charged with the organization of Medical and Legal Advisory Boards throughout their States.

Section 29. Governor to District State and Appoint
Medical Advisory Boards.

Each State shall be carefully districted with due organization of regard to communication and hospital facilities for the Boards. erection of a number of Medical Advisory Boards computed with a view to the equitable and practical distribution of the work of reexamination as provided herein and to the convenience of registrants and economy to the Government in sending registrants before such boards. To assist the Governor in this work a member of the Officer's Reserve Corps of the Medical Department will be ordered to active duty to report to the Governor for a sufficient time to accomplish this organization. The American Medi- American Medical Association and the Medical Section of and Council of Na- the Council of National Defense have also offered their tional Defense to services to Governors in accomplishing this purpose. assist Governor. Members of Medical Advisory Boards will be nominated Appointed by by the Governor and appointed by the President in accordance with instructions to be hereafter communicated to the Governors.

cal Association

President.

responsible

Boards.

for.

Section 30. Governor to Organize Legal Advisory
Boards.

All members of the bar should make their services available to the Legal Advisory Boards to be constituted by the Governor as hereafter provided.

Governor The Governor shall constitute Legal Advisory Boards organization of in such numbers and within such districts that there Legal Advisory shall be convenient to every registrant who is to appear before a Local or District Board within the State a Legal Advisory Board to which such registrant may apply for all necessary advice and assistance in preparing claims, Questionnaires, or any other papers required by these regulations to be submitted by a registrant. After de

Duty of such boards.

ters.

perma

nent and respon

termining the number and location of Legal Advisory State headquar Boards necessary to accomplish this purpose, the Governor shall nominate, for appointment by the President, three representative lawyers, to be permanent members Three of such boards, to take charge of this work within each sible members apsuch district, and to be held responsible that there shall pointed by Presi always be a competent force of lawyers or laymen available to such registrants at any time during which the Local or District Boards within such district are open for business.

persons

The Governor shall nominate one of such three to be chairman of each Legal Advisory Board; and the member so nominated shall, whenever practicable, be a Judge of the County Court, or of the Common Pleas Court, or of a court of similar jurisdiction.

dent.

Chairman.

of legal ad

The Governor shall call upon all members of the bar Associate merwithin the State, and if necessary, upon competent lay-visory boards. men, to offer their services to such Legal Advisory Boards for the purpose of being present at the headquarters of the Local Boards and rendering aid and advice to registrants. Such persons shall be known as Associate Members, and no formal appointment by the President shall be necessary.

of

Bar Association.

For his assistance in this work, the Governor has the Assistance active cooperation and assistance of the American Bar Association.

It should be the pride of every lawyer that no registrant Duty of law. within his district is without competent legal advice and assistance in preparing all papers that such registrant is required to submit in the process of the selection of citizens of this Nation for duty in the present emergency.

Section 31. Adjutants General.

Office through

Normally the office through which the Governor exercises his functions in the administration of the Selective Service Law shall be the office of the Adjutant General; but where there is no Adjutant General or which Governor where the Governor selects another person or admin-functions. istrative department of the State government, the person or the department so selected shall be intended by the words "Adjutant General" as used herein. The office organization of State Adjutants General for the execution of the Selective Service Law shall include

tional Army or

(a) Assistant to State Adjutant General.-To Assistant to Adassist the Adjutant General of the State in the perform- jutant General. ance of the duties devolving upon him in the execution of the Selective Service Law, one or more officers of the National Army or of the Reserve Corps will be commis-, Officer of Nasioned by the President and assigned to duty, under the Reserve Corps. direction of the Governor, for service in the State in connection with the execution of the Selective Service Law. Such officer should be assigned by the Governor to duty in the office of the State Adjutant General or such other administrative office or department of the State government as the Governor may select as the office or

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