...and for other purposes," approved the 20th April, 1918; (e.) An Act entitled " An Act to authorise the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States," approved the 18th May, 1917, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto ; (/.) An Act entitled " An Act...

...$223,000,ooo for the support of the army for the regular fiscal year. We passed an act authorizing the President to increase temporarily the military establishment of the United States — this was the act which authorized the selective draft of a million men — and there was a great...

...United States of America in Con9ress assembled. That so much of sections seven and fourteen of the act entitled "An act to authorize the President to increase...Establishment of the United States," approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, as impose restrictions upon enlistments in the Regular...

...who willfully failed or refused to comply with any of the requirements of the Act of May 18, 1917, entitled "An Act to authorize the President to increase...the Military Establishment of the United States," or of said Act as amended, or with regulations promulgated by the President pursuant thereto. V__Act...

...used in this Act, shall include the following persons * * * : * * * all forces raised under the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the President to increase...Establishment of the United States", approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen; * * * and members of any other body who have heretofore...

...registration for military purposes to register as provided by the Act of Congress of May 18, 1917, entitled "An Act to Authorize the President to increase...the Military Establishment of the United States." AND WHEREAS, in such Proclamation it was provided among other things that Ante- P- 21- "In the territories...

...registration under the terms and provisions of section 5 of an Act of Congress approved May 18, 1917, entitled "An act to authorize the President to increase...the military establishment of the United States," and in accordance with the regulations prescribed by the President under said act and at the time and...

...preliminaries not now material, charged that on June 5, 1917, at Walla Walla, Wash., he registered under the act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the military establishment of the United States (Act May 18, 1917, c. 15, 40 Stat. 76 [Comp. St. 1918, § 2044a et seq.]) ; that he was called for...

...judicial powers. The act itself completely .expresses the purpose of Congress as stated in its title "to authorize the President to increase temporarily...the military establishment of the United States." The act fully and clearly provides the general means adopted for carrying out this purpose, and the...

...orders: 1. 1. Under authority conferred by sections 1, 2, 8 and 9 of the act of Congress ' ' Authorizing the President to increase temporarily the military...establishment of the United States," approved May 18, 1917, and the act "Authorizing the President to coordinate or consolidate executive bureaus, agencies and...