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ALL ELIGIBLES MUST
REGISTER JUNE FIFTH

If You Are 21 Years of Age and Not
31 You Must Present Yourself
For Registration
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Scotland county is making rapid and
ample preparation for the work of
registering all male citizens between
the ages of 21 and 30, inclusive, as
provided in the war army bill and
prescribed in the President's procla-
mation, naming June 5 as registration
day and outlining the plan upon which
the work is to be done. This procla-
mation will be found on another page
of this paper and all are urged to read
and re-read it. Also there will be
found a complete list of questions
which will be asked those who present
themselves for registration.

Those Who Must Register.
All male persons who have attained
their 21st birthday and who have not
attained their 31st birthday. The only
exceptions are those persons in the
military or naval service of the United
States, which includes officers and en-
listed men in the Navy, the Army, the
Marine Corps, the National Guard,
etc. Other than these there will be
no exceptions and no exemptions from
registration. If you are a man and
have passed your 21st birthday and
have not reached your 31st, you must
present yourself at the registration
booths. If, for instance you are with-
in 3 days of your 31st birthday, or one
day, as the case may be, you must
register. If you are 21 years old June
5 or before that date you must regis-ter.

Penalties for Failure to Register.

"--and any person who shall will-
fully fail or refuse to present himself
for registration or to submit thereto
as herein provided, shall be guilty of
a misdemeanor and shall, upon con-
viction in the district court of the
United States having jurisdiction
thereof, be punished by imprisonment
for not more than one year, and shall
thereupon be duly registered." This
simply means that the Government
means business and there will be no
evasion of the law. This is a serious
business and it will be well for every
one to observe it. It will be better to
present yourself at the registering
booth early in the morning of June 5
than to wait until the afternoon.

It is further specified that there
shall be no parleying or exchanging
of words with the clerks at the places
of registration. Every one will have
the right to ask questions, but the
business must be dispatched and if
any one delays the work or refuses to
answer the questions put to him, or
shows a sullen manner in answering
same, he will be immediately turned
over to the officers and sent to the
courts for trial and punishment.

Place of Registration.
The place of registration shall be at
the customary voting precincts. You
know where you go to vote. Go to the
same place to register June 5. Those
in Spring Hill township will register
at Wagram. Those in upper Laurel
Hill will register at Leggett's store.
Those in lower Laurel Hill will regis-
ter at Laurel Hill church. Those in

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Stewartsville No. 1 will register at
Laurinburg, and those in Stewarts-
ville No. 2 will register at Hasty, etc.

The registration booths will be
opened at 7 o'clock in the morning of
Tuesday, June 5, and will close at 9
o'clock in the evening. "At all events
permit only one person to approach
the registration table at a time."
There must be no crowding about the
tables and all police and state and
county officers are required to see that
order is kept. If you are not regis-
tered by 9 o'clock Tuesday evening,
June 5, and you are an eligible, your
opportunity is gone and your case
will be in the hands of the United
States courts. Do not fail to attend
to this business promptly.

The Sick.
"Persons who, on account of sick-
ness, are unable to present themselves
for registration on the day set by the
President will cause some competent
person to apply to the county or city
clerk for a copy of the card and for
authority to fill it out (including the
registrar's report on the back there-
of.) If satisfied that the case is bona
fide, the clerk will deputize the per-
son applying for the card to make
out the card and the registrar's re-
port, first carefully explaining the
card. The card will then be mailed
by the sick person, or delivered by his
agent, to the registrar of the sick per-
son's voting precinct as described for
cards of absentees. The sick person
will enclose a self-addressed stamped
envelope for a registration certificate."

Landlords and Overseers.

Landlords and Overseers are espec-
ially urged to lend their influence in
having all eligible men employed about
their farms or places of business duly
registered on June 5. If for any rea-
son such persons are not registered,
then there is nothing for the authori-
ties to do except take them in charge
and turn them over at once to the
Federal courts. These men will be re-
quired to register June 5, but in no
case is it probable that they will be
called into service before crops have
been cultivated for this year. But if
you fail to see that all are registered,
you will lose them from your farms
after June 5. This is very important
and your co-operation in this work is
asked.

Registrars for Scotland County.
SPRING HILL TOWNSHIP---A. E.
Shaw, chief, J. H. Jones.
UPPER LAUREL HILL--R. A.
Monroe.
LOWER LAUREL HILL--L. E.
McCall, chief, D. M. McLaurin.
UPPER WILILAMSON--Jno. D.
McDonald, chief, T. J. Fetzer.
LOWER WILLIAMSON--W. N.
McKenzie, chief, P. N. Walker.
STEWARTSVILLE No. 1--T. C.
Everett, Cecil Sanford, H. O. Covington,
Daniel T. Blue.
STEWARTSVILLE No. 2--J. S.
Thompson, W. A. McKay.

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W. D. McLAURIN, Sheriff
Scotland County