81. Industry and agriculture, General Rules XV to XVIII. 42 106. District Board to keep docket.. 107. Classification by District Boards, Rules XXXIV to XLIII. 108-110. Local Board's action on return of case from District Board. 122. Physical examination to be made when required. 123-128. Procedure as to physical examination before Local, District and C. SPECIAL CASES OF INDUCTION INTO MILITARY SERVICE. 147-148. Induction of registrants absent from jurisdiction of Local Board of E. PERMITS FOR PASSPORTS. MOBILIZATION. 157-171. Procedure in selecting, inducting, and entraining.. 190-204. Compensation and traveling allowances of Board members and 205-210. Rentals, equipment, supplies, telegrams, and general expenses. GENERAL RULES AND REGULATIONS. Section 1. Definitions and instructions as to interpretation and construction. In the interpretation and construction of these Rules and Regulations, the following definitions and instructions shall be observed, namely: ice Law. (a) By the term "Selective Service Law" is meant Selective Serv the Act of Congress of May 18, 1917, entitled "An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States. (b) These Rules and Regulations under the Selective s. S. R. Service Law shall, for the sake of brevity, be indicated by the letters "S. S. R." (Selective Service Regulations). (c) Words importing the singular number shall be held Singular to include the plural, and vice versa, except where such construction would be unreasonable. cludes plural. Feminine. (d) Words importing the masculine gender shall be Masculine held to include the feminine, except where such construction would be unreasonable. in (e) The conjunctive word "and" may be substituted for "And"-" or." the disjunctive word "or," and vice versa, in the sections of these Rules and Regulations relating to dependents, except where such substitution and the construction resulting therefrom would be unreasonable. (f) The word "State" shall include all States, Terri- State. tories, and the District of Columbia. (4) The word "county" shall include parishes in the County. State of Louisiana. (h) The word "Governor" shall include Governors of Governor. the States and Territories and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. (i) The term "Adjutant General" shall include Adju- Adjutant Gentants General of the States, Territories, and the District of Columbia; and where there is no Adjutant General, or where the Governor selects another person or another administrative department of the State Government to perform the duties imposed by these Rules and Regulations on the Adjutant General, the term shall import such person or department. () The term "deferred class "includes the second, third, fourth, and fifth classes of the five classes into which registrants shall be placed. All registrants placed in Class V have been exempted or discharged, and all registrants placed in Classes II, III, and IV have been temporarily discharged; all classifications being conditioned upon the continuing existence of the status of the registrant which is the basis of his classification. Deferred class. General Rules. (k) The term "deferred classification" is equivalent Deferred classi- to discharge or exemption from draft, whether permanent, temporary, conditional, or unconditional. fication. Registrant. Mobilization. Selected man Police. Child. Cath. (1) The term "registrant" shall include all persons. duly and properly registered in accordance with the provisions of the Selective Service Law and the Rules and Regulations made under authority thereof, heretofore and hereafter in effect. (m) The term "mobilization" shall include all proceedings in relation to induction of a registrant into the military service from the time that he is ordered to report to his Local Board for military duty and entrainment to the time that he arrives at the mobilization camp. (n) The term "selected man" shall include all registrants who, under the preexisting regulations had been notified of selection (old Form 146-B), or who, under these Regulations, have been notified by their Local Boards to report for military duty and entrainment. (0) The term "police official" shall include all United States and State, county, and municipal marshals and sheriffs and their deputies, police, constables and the constabulary, and all similar officers by whatever name known, having authority to take persons into custody in order to preserve the peace and quiet of the community and to maintain public order and tranquillity. (p) The term "child" shall include only girls under 18 and boys under 16 years of age, and of those under such ages shall, except where otherwise provided, include: (1) A legitimate child of the registrant, whether born or unborn. (2) A child legally adopted by the registrant before May 18, 1917, if a member of the registrant's household. (3) An illegitimate child of the registrant only if he has been judicially ordered or decreed to contribute to such child's support. The classification of a registrant on account of dependency of any child as herein defined shall be governed by the particular rules of classification in respect of dependency. (q) Wherever an oath is required, an affirmation in judicial form, if made by a person having conscientious scruples concerning the taking of an oath, shall be deemed a sufficient compliance. When regula Section 2. When these Rules and Regulations become effective. tions effective. Certain regulajons effective Nov. 20, 1917. (a) The following sections and parts of these Rules and Regulations shall become effective at noon on November 20, 1917 and thereupon shall supersede all preexisting Rules and Regulations relating to the same subject matter, namely, Sections 9 to 13, inclusive; 15 and 16; 23 to 34, inclusive; 37 to 52, inclusive; 90, 91, and 92; 152 to 156, inclusive; 183, 184, 185, and 187; and Parts IX, XI, XII, XIII, and XIV. |