INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE PREPARATION AND USE OF FORMS 1029 (NEW), 1029 A AND B AND 1029 C AND D.

OFFICE OF PROVOST MARSHAL GENERAL,

Washington, D. C., January 21, 1918. The changes in those sections of the Selective Service Regulations which deal with the sending to military duty of registrants, the preparation of papers in connection with this phase of the work of focal boards, and the keeping of the accounts of quotas of local boards, together with the new forms prescribed, are based on important changes in two of the principles of the regulations as originally issued, viz:

1. Credit for all inductions by local boards into military service, whether voluntary or compulsory, will be allowed against the current quotas of local boards.

2. Accounts of quotas will be kept by the Provost Marshal General instead of at mobilization camps and at State headquarters. To this end Forms 1029 (old), 187, 187 A and 187 B have been discarded and Forms 1029 (new), 1029 A and B, and 1029 C and D, have been introduced.

Form 1029 (new) is for listing the names, and certain other data in respect of men entrained for military duty. Space is provided thereon for notation by the military authorities against the names of selected men who have been entrained but who have failed to arrive at their destination. This form is in duplicate; both copies are to be mailed to the military camp or station for which the selected man or party of selected men is entrained, are there completed and the duplicate returned to the local board and there filed. The original is mailed by the military authorities to the Provost Marshal General. Form 1029 A and B, the credit card, is a form made out individually for each man entrained. This form is one of the most important of all forms so far as local boards are concerned since each such form properly filled out by a board and indorsed by the military authorities in such manner as to indicate the acceptance for military service of the registrant described, will, when filed in the office of the Provost Marshal General, stand as a credit for one man to the local board whose stamp appears in the space thereon provided for it.

Mobilization camps or other military stations to which selected men may be sent are required to report on this form, within one month of the date of induction, the acceptance or rejection of the registrant concerned. This requirement together with the fact that each selected man's name and description appears on an individual card will do away with the long delays experienced by local boards in receiving information as to the disposition of men sent to military duty.

Local boards must note particularly the new requirement of "Call Numbers." Section 178 of the Selective Service Regulations provides that the Provost Marshal General shall number each call for

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men whether the induction of such men is general, voluntary, individual, or special. These calls will be numbered consecutively from 1 upward and a Call Number will refer only to men of o. e designated class ordered sent to one designated point. Thus, Call 1 was for white volunteers for the Land Division, Signal Corps, to be sent to Fort Leavenworth, Kans.; Call 2 was for white volunteers west of the Mississippi River for the Medical Department, to be sent to Fort Riley, Kans.; Call 6 was for 1,000 white bricklayers for the Aviation Section, Signal Corps, to be sent to Kelly Field, Tex.; a d so on. The local board will enter, in the space provided on Form 1029 A and B, the "Call Number" as given by the Provost Marshal General. Then when a Form 1029 B, properly completed a d i dicating an acceptance, is received at the office of the Provost Marshal General, it will reveal at a glace the local board to which credit is due, the kid of military duty for which the registrant was accepted, the place to which he was sent, the date of his acceptance for military service, as well as his name, order 1.umber, a d serial number.

Forms 1029 C a d D will be fur ished o ly to the proper military authorities a d will be used by them to i. form the Provost. Marshal Ger eral a d local boards of discharges from military service under section 176, S. S. R.

To put the new system into effect, a date will hereafter be specified by the Provost Marshal General, after which the new system will be used exclusively. On this date the military authorities will be required to complete as many Forms 164A or 1029 (Old) as is practicable and to withhold the remainder. Local boards will delay three days from the date so announced and will then send to the mobilization camp or station to which the selected men were sent, properly prepared Forms 1029 A and B for every selected man not theretofore reported by the military authorities as either accepted or rejected. These forms will be completed by the military authorities and mailed to local boards and to the Provost Marshal General as though they had been originally sent as prescribed in the amended regulations. However, in sending men to military duty on and after the date announced, local boards will use the new forms whether the three-day period just mentioned has expired or not.

1. Form 1029.

DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS.

A. Local boards.-On every sheet of both original and duplicate enter the following: Local board stamp, in space provided therefor; consecutive number of sheet in upper right-hand corner (original and duplicate to bear the same sheet number); date of entrainment of the party near upper right-hand corner; date of induction of the selected men into military service in the space provided between the words "on" and "have"; name of camp or station for which entrained in space provided; total number of sheets comprising the statement in proper space. Entries in columns 1, 2, and 3 are obvious. Enter in column 4 the Call Number as announced by the Provost Marshal General. Entry in column 5 is determined by consulting the answer to question 5 on page 4 of the Questionnaire. In column 6, enter in the proper subcolumn the division letter of the registrant's final classification (see cover sheet of Questionnaire). Column 7 and the reverse side of the form are for the use of military authorities only.

B. Military authorities.-Immediately upon receipt of this form from a local board enter in column 7 of both original and duplicate opposite the name of any man who has failed to report to the military authorities when ordered an X. Fill the blank spaces on the reverse side and mail the original to the Provost Marshal General, Washington, D. C., and the duplicate to the local board whose stamp appears on the face of the form.

2. Form 1029 A and B.

A. LOCAL BOARDS.

Do not detach Form 1029 A from 1029 B.

In both A and B of this form enter the following: Local Board stamp; Call Number, registrant's order number, name, serial number. In Form 1029 A enter also: The date and hour of the registrant's induction into military service; the branch of military service for duty in which he was inducted, e. g., Aviation, Cavalry, Infantry, etc.; (if sent to a mobilization camp under a general call enter the word "General"), and after the word "Adjutant" on the form, the name of the camp or station to which he is ordered to report. On reverse side, place the stamp of the local board.

In Form 1029 B enter also: The registrant's occupation and his classification and division thereof. (See answer to question 5, page 4, Questionnaire and cover sheet of Questionnaire).

In other words, fill all spaces in both sections of this form above the lines marked "Below this line to be filled in by military authorities," except the space in the upper right hand corner of Form 1029 B, which space is for the use of the Provost Marshal General.

This form, completely and clearly filled in as above, is to be delivered to the leader of the party of selected men, or, when only one selected man is entrained, it is to be delivered to such single man.

When Form 1029 A is returned by the military authorities attach it to the registrant's Questionnaire, after making the necessary entries in the Classification List.

B. MILITARY AUTHORITIES.

In both A and B of this form fill in all blanks below the lines marked "Below this line to be filled in by military authorities." In the proper spaces enter the name of the camp or station and the date of acceptance or rejection of the registrant. Draw a line through the word "Rejected" if the registrant is accepted, or through the word "Accepted" if the registrant is rejected. In case of rejection enter the cause therefor, e. g., physically unfit, alien enemy, dependents (state relationship), etc. Sign both cards.

In Form 1029 B enter also the branch of service for which the registrant is accepted.

Detach 1029 A from 1029 B and place both cards in the mail.

Important Note.-Acceptance or rejection must be determined and both cards placed in the mail within one month of the date of the registrant's induction into service as indicated in Form 1029 A. This is the extreme case. Ordinarily cards should be mailed within a very few days after the date of receipt thereof.

3. Form 1029 C and D.

A. MILITARY AUTHORITIES.

Whenever a selected man is discharged from the military service (see sections 176, 177, S. S. R.) immediately fill all blank spaces in both parts of this form, separate the parts thereof and place in the mail. It is to be noted that, in this form, it is necessary that the military authorities enter in the upper left-hand corner of each part and on the reverse of C the designation of the registrant's local board. Make no entry in the space in the upper right-hand corner of Form 1029 D.

B. LOCAL BOARDS.

Upon the receipt of a Form 1029 C from the military authorities, proceed as in liated in Section 177, S. S. R. Attach the form to registrant's Questionnaire and file.

4. Destroy all unused Forms 1029 (old), 187, 187 A, and 187 B.

The selected men herein described, having been inducted into military service on have this date been entrained for

This statement consists of

sheets.

(Camp or Station.)

(Date.)

All men whose names appear on this statement have reported for military duty at this place except those opposite whose names there is entered in Column 7 an X

Signature
Rank

INSTRUCTIONS.

Entries in colurans 1, 2, and 3 are obvious.

Entry in column 4 is the number of the call under which the man or men are to be inducted as announced byt the Provost Marshal General.

Entry in column 5 is determined by consulting the answer to Question 5 on page 4 of the Questionnaire. In column 6 enter in the proper subcolumn the division letter of the registrant's final classification. (Sce cover sheet of Questionnaire.)

Entry in column 7 is to be made by the military authorities only and consists of an "X" in the column opposite name of any man listed on the form who fails to report to the military authorities.