SEC. 11. That the parents or guardian of any every person under eighteen years of age who in any year, without lawful excuse, fails to register or who evades or fails to render the personal service required by this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall in addition to the liability under section nine of this aet, be liable to a fine of not to exceed five hundred dollars or to be confined for twenty days, or both: Provided, That in fixing the amount of the fine due regard shall be had to the means of the person offend ing and those of his the parents or guardian of the person offending. Provided further, That any person committed to the custody of a prescribed authority in pursuance of this section may be detained by that authority at any prescribed institution or place, and while so detained shall be subject to the regulations governing that insti tution or place and to training and discipline as prescribed.

SEC. 12. That every person liable for service in the Citizen Army or Navy who in any year, without lawful excuse, fails to register as required by this Act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall in addition to the liability in section nine of this act be liable to a fine of not to exceed $500 and to be committed to the custody of the proper military or naval authorities: Provided, That any person committed to the custody of the proper military or naval authorities in pursuance to this section may be detained by such authorities and while so detained shall be subject to training and discipline as prescribed. And any such person who in any year, without lawful excuse, evades or fails to render the personal service required by this act shall be punished as a courtmartial may direct.

SEC. 12 13. That no employer shall prevent, or attempt to prevent, any employee who is serving or liable to serve in the Citizen Cadet Corps, or in the Citizen Army or Navy, from registering or rendering the personal service required of him, or from attending any camp of instruction appointed to be held by proper authority, and no employer shall in any way penalize or prejudice in his employment, or attempt to penalize or prejudice in his employment, any employee for rendering, or being liable to render, such personal service, or for attending such camp either by reducing his wages or dismissing him from employment, or in any other manner: Provided, That this section shall not be construed to require an employer to pay an employee for any time when he is absent from employment for the purpose of training.

SEC. 18 14. That any person or corporation found guilty of violating any of the provisions of section twelve of this act shall be punished by a fine of not less than $50 nor more than $500: Provided, That in any proceedings for any violation of section twelve thirteen of this act the burden of proof shall be upon the employer to show that any employee proved to have been dismissed or to have been penalized or prejudiced in his employment or to have suffered a reduction of wages was so dismissed, penalized, or prejudiced in his employment or reduced for some reason other than having rendered or being liable to render the personal service required of him or attending the camp of instruction.

See. H. That every person liable to training in the Citizen Cadet Corps or the Citizen Army or Navy who (a) fails without lawful exeuse to attend a compulsory drill or instruction or (b) commits a breach of discipline while attending the same shall be guilty of a

misdemeanor and shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding $25: Provided, That any penalty under this section may be recovered summarily on the information or complaint of a prescribed officer: Provided further, That in fixing the amount of the penalty the court shall have due regard to the means of the person offending and those of his parents: And provided further, That in addition to any penalty imposed or (where in the opinion of the court or the judge the im position of a penalty would involve undue hardship) in lieu of im posing any penalty the court or judge may, if it deems it proper, commit the offender to the custody of any prescribed authority for such time (not exceeding twenty days, or for) a time corresponding in duration to the time which, in the opinion of the court or judge, would be taken up in rendering the personal-service-required: And provided further That-it-shall-not-be necessary for this confinement to-be-continuous, but the person having the custody of the offender may, subject to prescribed regulations, release him for such periods and call upon him to return to custody at such times as he sees fit. in order that the offender may follow his occupation: And provided further, That any person detained in any prescribed institution-or place in pursuance of this section who escapes therefrom, or whe being released from-custody fails to return thereto, may be arrested without warrant by any prescribed person and taken back to the institution or place, and may, on the application of any prescribed officer, be ordered by any court of summary jurisdiction to be detained for such additional period, not exceeding twenty days, as the court-deems-fit to order: Provided, That the averment of the proseeutor-of-any-offender of the Citizen Cadet Corps that he is duly authorized by the constituted authority to bring the prosecution shall be sufficient and shall not be controverted by the court or by the defendant.

SEC-15 That a person liable to be trained for the Citizen Cadet Corps shall not be committed to jail in default of a pecuniary penalty-imposed-in-this-aet or of any costs-awarded-in the proceed ings-for-any such offense, but, in lieu thereof, a court may order that he be committed to the custody-of-a-prescribed-authority-for such time, not exceeding the time for which the court-could-but-for this-section-have-committed-him-to-jail-in-default-of-payment-of-the pecuniary penalty-imposed or costs awarded, as the court deems fit: Provided, That the total duration of confinement of a person in respect-of-offenses-committed in any one year or of costs awarded in proceedings for such offenses shall not exceed sixty days: Provided further. That in places where children's courts exist-offenses against this-act-committed-by-citizen-members of the Citizen Cadet Corps of the first and second periods shall be prosecuted in such-courts as far-as-may-be-practicable:

SEC. 46 15. That no person shall be permitted to serve in the Citizen Cadet Corps or in the Citizen Army or Navy who is found by any court duly appointed for that purpose to have been convicted of any disgraceful or infamous crime or to be of notoriously bad character: Provided, That any member of the Citizen Cadet Corps or of the Citizen Army or Navy who shall have been convicted of any disgraceful or infamous crime shall be dishonorably discharged from the service therein and shall not be eligible thereafter to hold

any position of trust or profit created or authorized by the Congress of the United States.

SEC. 17 16. That-each-congressional district and the District-of Columbia shall constitute a registration and training district, and in each such district units of the Citizen Cadet Corps and of the Citizen Army shall be organized-and-trained That the President is hereby authorized to define, limit, establish, and maintain within the continental limits of the United States, such number of military districts as he may deem necessary for carrying into effect the provisions of this Act, and the President is likewise authorized to group such military districts into military departments or other higher commands at his discretion: Provided, That the President may at any time in his discretion increase or decrease the number of military districts thus established or change the limits of any such district or districts, and for the purpose of registration, organization, and training each of said districts shall be under the charge of an officer of the Regular Army, designated for the purpose, who shall have an office permanently located in the district and who shall be assisted by the necessary commissioned and enlisted personnel and by such other assistants as are duly authorized herein as instructors for imparting the prescribed training.

SEC. 8 17. That every male citizen, and those whose parents have declared their intention to become citizens, of each training district shall, upon arriving at the age of twelve years, be registered in the office of the district commandant of the district in which he resides. Such registration shall be made in the form and in the manner prescribed by the Secretary of War. Changes of address, removals from a district, and entrances into another district shall, within thirty days after such change, be recorded in the office of the district commandant of the districts concerned in the form and manner prescribed by the Secretary of War. The first registration under this act shall begin on the first day of January following the passage of the act, and shall include all male citizens who in the ensuing year will be between the ages of twelve and twenty-three years, inclusive, and thereafter all males arriving at the age of twelve years during the year preceding following the first day of January shall be registered during the months of January and February.

SEC. 19 18. That there shall be established in or contiguous to each training district one or more training centers, under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe. And there shall be established such training centers for naval training as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe.

SEC. 20 19. That all persons liable to training in the Citizen Army or Navy shall, before entering upon such training, be examined for physical fitness and shall take the oath of allegiance-to-the United States-as-prescribed for-enlisted men of the Regular-Army-and-Navy. SEC. 24 20. That the President is authorized to mobilize the Citizen Army and Navy and their reserves in time of war or threatened war, insurrection, or rebellion, or when the public safety demands it, or for purposes of training.

SEC. 22 21. That officers and noncommissioned officers in the Citizens Cadet Corps shall be appointed by the district commandants, under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe. They shall not bear commissions or warrants.

SEC. 23 22. That the President shall appoint-and-commission officers in the Citizen Army, in the Citizen Navy, and in their reserves as hereinafter provided:

Beginning from the first day of January after the passage of this aet all appointments and commissions of officers in the Citizen Army and Navy shall be provisional, and shall continue-in-feree, unless vacated by promotion or otherwise terminated by law, for a period of three years.

For one year, beginning with the first day of January after the passage of this aet, provisional-appointments and commissions shall be to the grades of captain, first lieutenant, and second-lieutenant in the organizations herein authorized.

Two years from the first day of January after the passage of this act provisional appointments and commissions shall be to the grades of major, captain, first lieutenant, and second lieutenant in the organization herein authorized.

Three years from the first day of January after the passage of this aet provisional appointments shall be to the grades of colonel, lieutenant-colonel, major, captain, first lieutenant, and second lieutenant in the organizations herein authorized; and thereafter shall be to all the grades enumerated in this section: Provided, That in time of war or imminent danger appointments and com missions to all grades may be made as authorized by law for the armies of the United States. That the members of the Citizen Army and Citizen Navy, trained during the first and second years, after the passage of this act, shall be given such provisional organization as may be necessary, in the discretion of the President, to effect their prompt and orderly mobilization in the event of sudden emergency, and the President is hereby authorized to appoint and commission provisionally for a term of three years all officers in the Citizen Army and in the Citizen Navy necessary for such organization and for the training of the members of he units thereof.

Four After three years from the first day of January after the passage of this act the President is authorized to make original permanent appointments and commission officers to vacancies in organizations of the Citizen Army and Navy and in their reserves then existing, under such regulations as he may prescribe as to physical and mental requirements, grade for grade, from the officers then holding provisional appointments in these forces: Provided, That in case of failure of any officer to meet the prescribed requirements he shall, (a) upon the recommendation of the examining board, pass immediately to the reserve with the rank held by him at the time of the examination; (b) upon the recommendation of the board, be honorably discharged from the service: Provided, That for cause the President may revoke the appointment of any commissioned officer of the Citizen Army or Navy and of their reserves.

Original provisional appointments to the grades enumerated in this section shall, under such regulations as the President may prescribe as to age, mental and physical requirements, and previous military service, be from (a) those who are serving or have had previous service as officers of the Regular Army or Navy; (b) graduates of institutions having satisfactory military or naval training or of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps; (c) those who have had service as

officers in the Organized Militia or Naval Militia of the United States; (d) enlisted men of the Regular Army or Navy and those who have served therein; (e) those who have satisfactorily completed training in the Citizen Cadet Corps.

Promotion of officers holding provisional appointments shall be under such regulations as the President may prescribe.

SEC. 24 23. That all vacancies existing in the organizations of the Citizen Army and Navy and their reserves four years from the first day of January after the passage of this act, not filled as hereinbefore prescribed, all vacancies occurring thereafter, and all vacancies caused by the organization of new units, except in the grade of second lieutenant, shall be filled from officers of the next lower grade of the arm of the service in the district in which the vacancies occur, under such regulations as to examination as the President may prescribe: Provided, That seniority to be given to an officer on promotion shall be determined by his order of merit among those of the same grade promoted on the same date in the examination for promotion to that rank.

SEC. 25 24. That the President is authorized, under such regulations as he may prescribe, to appoint and commission officers to the grade of second lieutenant of the Citizen Army and Navy from— (a) Graduates of institutions having military or naval training. (b) Those who have had commissioned or enlisted service in the Regular Army or Navy and suitable enlisted men serving therein. (c) Those who have had commissioned or enlisted service in the Militia or Naval Militia and those who are serving therein.

(d) Those who have completed the Citizen Cadet Corps training and the first year of training in the Citizen Army or Navy.

(e) Those who have served in military organizations not mentioned herein who demonstrate their fitness for such commissions.

SEC. 26 25. That the President is hereby authorized to call into the service of the United States such members of the Medical Reserve Corps, and for such periods of time, as may be necessary to exercise assist in exercising proper sanitary supervision of training centers and training camps, and to make assist in making the necessary physical examinations of persons liable to be trained in the Citizen Cadet Corps, in the Citizen Army and Navy, and in their reserves.

SEC. 27 26. That nothing contained in this act shall prevent any member of the Citizen Army or Navy from enlisting or accepting a commission in the Regular Army or Navy, or in the Militia or Volunteer forces when called into the service of the United States.

SEC. 28 27. That under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe, noncommissioned officers in the Citizen Army and its reserves shall be appointed: (a) By district commandants for companies, troops, batteries, and detachments of the several staff corps under their command which are not a part of any permanently organized battalion, squadron, or regiment; (b) by battalion and squadron commanders for companies, troops, or batteries which are not a part of any permanently organized regiment; (c) by regimental or coast-defense commanders.

SEC. 29 28. That under such regulations as the Secretary of the Navy shall prescribe, warrant officers and petty officers of the Citizen Navy and its reserves shall be appointed by the commanding