 | William Franklin Gephart - Insurance - 1918 - 320 pages
...not exceeding two years, or both, in the discretion of the court. SEC. 3. That section eight of the Act entitled " An Act to authorize the President to...Establishment of the United States," approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, shall be held and construed to authorize the President,... | |
 | United States. War Department - 1918 - 36 pages
...of the united States of America in Congress assembled, That the last sentence of section eight of an act entitled " An Act to authorize the President to...Establishment of the United States," approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, be, and the same hereby is, amended to read as follows:... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1918 - 1202 pages
...the "Regular Army," and the other branches of our military service. May 18, 1917, Congress passed an act, entitled "An act to authorize the president to...the military establishment of the United States." TJ. S. Statutes, 1st Sess. Sixty-Fifth Congress, p. 76. The . opening sentence thereof reads: "That... | |
 | United States - Law - 1918 - 1192 pages
...Coupland, (1862) 26 Tex. 386. See also Cas. No. 8,669. Ea p. Hill, (1863) 38 Ala. 429. The Act of Congress entitled "An Act to authorize the President to increase...the military establishment of the United States," of May 18, 1918, known as the Selective Service Act, is held to be a valid exercise of the power to... | |
 | United States. War Department - 1918 - 1046 pages
...direction began to appear in the work of preparation. THE ENLARGEMENT OF THE ARMY. The act of May 18, entitled "An act to authorize the President to increase...the Military Establishment of the United States," looked to three sources for the Army which it created : 1. The Regular Army, of which the actual strength... | |
 | Julius Washington Muller - World War, 1914-1918 - 1918 - 416 pages
...original "Select Service Law" is an Act of Congress, which came into full force May 18, 1917. The law is entitled: "An Act to authorize the President to increase...the Military Establishment of the United States." Its purpose was the raising of troops to carry on the war against Germany. It was drawn to create a... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Military Affairs - 1918 - 178 pages
...EXECUTIVE ORDER. 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...the Military Establishment of the United States," whereby it is provided "And nothing in this act contained shall be construed to require or compel any... | |
 | United States. War Department - 1918 - 1050 pages
...having been suspended for the period of the present emergency by section 11 of the act of May 18, 1917, entitled "An act to authorize the President to increase...the Military Establishment of the United States." However, the policy of the department has been to assign line officers to their organizations, relieving... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1918 - 58 pages
...military forces of the United States under the act approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, entitled "An act to authorize the President to increase...the Military Establishment of the United States," or under any present or future statute of the United States, or to any person held under arrest by,... | |
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An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military establishment of the United States", approved May 18, 1917, or any. 
