...districts was effective. The War Department early provided for this action. Section thirteen of the act "To authorize the President to increase temporarily...establishment of the United States," approved May 18, 1918, reads: — That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized, empowered, and directed during the...

...Department Bulletin No. 35. dated July 3, 1918: "Under authority of Section 12 of the Act of Conjrress 'To authorize the President to increase temporarily...Establishment of the United States,' approved May 18, 1917, which •Ktion reads as follows: "Sec. 12. That the President of the United States, as Comninnder-in-C'Im'f...

...districts was effective. The War Department early provided for this action. Section thirteen of the act "To authorize the President to increase temporarily...establishment of the United States," approved May 18, 1918, reads: — That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized, empowered, and directed during the...

...Section 12 of the act approved May 18, 1917, commonly called the Selective Draft Act, but officially entitled "An Act to Authorize the President to Increase...the Military Establishment of the United States." Section 12 reads as follows: That the President of the United States, as commander in chief of the...

...preservation, and transportation of the records pertaining to the draft under the act of May 18, 1917, entitled "An Act to authorize the President to increase...the Military Establishment of the United States," including the employment of the necessary clerical and other help for duty in the office of The Adjutant...

...States of America in Congress assembled that an act published No. 1265 Congress approved May 18, 1917, entitled 'An Act to authorize the President to increase...the military establishment of the United States', be and the same is hereby repealed. • " Representative Lundeed issued the following statement in...

...March 20, 1918: 1. By virtue of authority contained in section 4 of the act approved May 18, 1917, entitled. "An act to authorize the President to increase...temporarily the military establishment of the United States, '' whereby it is provided : " And nothing in this act contained shall be construed to require or compel...

...citizen, or subject of any nation with which the United States may be at war." The selective draft act was entitled "An act to authorize the President to increase...the military establishment of the United States," and it provided, among other things, that "the President be, and he is hereby, authorized ... to draft...

...registered aud liable for military service under the terms of the Act of Congress approved May 18, 11H7, entitled "An Act to authorize the President to Increase...the Military establishment of the United States." Public Res., No. 29. May 16. SJ Res. 124. Providing for the registration for military service of all...

...provisions of the act approved May 18, 1917 (40 Stat. 76), known us the selective service act, which Is entitled "An act to authorize the President to increase...the military establishment of the United States," and authorized the President to raise additional forces of the kind and in the manner therein set out...