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ºffereag, The Congress of the United States has enacted a law requiring all
male citizens twenty-one years of age and under thirty-one years of age to present
themselves for registration for military service, and empowering the President to
fix a date for such registration and to employ the officers of the state, and of the
various municipalities, to execute the provisions of the law, and has authorized
the raising of an army from the persons so registered, and
(Hijereag, The President of the United States has issued a proclamation
calling upon such persons between the ages aforesaid to present themselves for
registration before the local officials on the fifth (5th) day of June, 1917, and to
do and perform certain other acts connected with such registration under severe
penalty for failure or neglect to perform the same;
320in Qºherefore, By virtue of the authority vested in me as Governor of the
State of Michigan, I do hereby announce and proclaim to the People of the State
of Michigan
(a) That all the officers of the state and of the several municipalities thereof,
who are so required by law or by the President's proclamation, and who have
been appointed thereto to perform any duties in connection with or pertaining to
the registration or the selection of the male inhabitants of this state for military
service, do strictly and unhesitatingly proceed to carry out and execute the duties
required of them;
(b) That all male inhabitants of this state, twenty-one years of age and
under thirty-one years of age, liable to registration under the terms of the Presi-
dent's Proclamation and the act of Congress, do obey the same and present them-
selves upon the date named, at the place and before the official to be designated
in each polling precinct for registering and answering such questions as may
be put to them touching their liability for military service to the United States;
(c) That all citizens, of what station soever, do lend their aid and assistance
to the President, the Governor and to their appointed agents and representatives
in these matters, as becomes the dignity and welfare of this state and of the
nation at large.
And I do further request that Tuesday, the fifth day of June, 1917, the date
appointed by the President for such registration, be observed as a Holiday through-
out this State, and urge upon all persons to lay aside their customary labors upon
that date, and to celebrate the day with such suitable exercises as may be pro-
vided in each locality, in order that the work of the general government may be
properly carried out without interference or hindrance in this state.
And I hereby appoint the Mayor of each city, the President of each village
and the Supervisor of each township as chairmen of their respective communities
to head committees and to prepare such form of celebration as may be deemed
suitable for the observance of the day of registration.
Given under my hand and the Great Seal of the
State, this nineteenth day of May, in the
year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred
and seventeen, and of the Commonwealth
the eighty-first.
By the Governor: Governor.
Secretary of State.



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