...1996, 1997, or 1998 of the Revised Statutes, as amended, or under section 2 of the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States," approved May 18, 1917, as amended, or under law amendatory of, supplementary to, or in substitution...

...124 US 194, 8 Sup. Ct. 456, 31 L. Ed. 386. [2] The Conscription or Selective Draft Law, being the act "to authorize the President to increase temporarily the military establishment of the United States, ' ' approved May 18, 1917, ' ' in view of the existing emergency, which demands the raising of troops...

...of the Act of May 18, 1917 (Public No. 12, 65th Congress, c. 15. — — Stat. ), entitled "An act to authorize the President to increase temporarily...military establishment of the United States." The law, as its opening sentence declares, was intended to supply temporarily the increased military force...

...THE first step in putting into operation the select conscription law, officially known as " an act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the military establishment of the United States," which was approved on May 18, 1917, was to register all male residents who had reached the age of 21...

...Registration regulations, No. 3. Prescribed by the President under authority of the Act of Congress to authorize the President to increase temporarily the military establishment of the United States. Approved May 18, 1917, as amended. Wash., 1918. 31p, 6x9. *6800.0319mr The Securities Department wishes...

...George Lunge. London, 1917. 347p, 6x9. *074.L97. Vol.Is (57) Naval and Military Affairs 315 An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the military establishment of the USHR 3545 . . . April 28, 1917. US Congress. Wash., 1917. 31p, 7}x11. *6800.M623 316 Chicago Public...

...bill, "All persons selected as soldiers in the Army of the United States under the act entitled 'An act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the military establishment of the United States,' " approved May 18, 1917. Mr. VOLSTEAD. Would it not be better to use general language? We may, in five...

...of the United States, acting under authority of an Act of Congress of May 18, 1917, entitled "An act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the military establishment of the United States," ha's by proclamation of the same date called upon all males who shall have attained their twenty-first...

...Committee (Senate, 65:1). Temporary increase of military establishment. Hearings. . .on S. 1871, a bill to authorize the President to increase temporarily the military establishment of the United States. Washington: Gov. Prtg. Off., 1917. 46 p. 8°. * SBF United States. — Naval Affairs Committee (House,...

...all persons selected by draft and all enlistments under the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States," approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, shall be for the period of the war, unless...