...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...

...as used in this Act, shall include the following persons * * * : * * * all forces raised under the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the President to...approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen; * * * and members of any other body who have heretofore or may hereafter become a part of the military...

...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...

...act of Congress (US Сотр. St. 1918, US Сотр. St. Ann. Supp. 1919, §§ 2019a, b, 2044a-2044k) entitled, "An act to authorize the President to increase...the military establishment of the United States," appellant, on June 5, 1917, at the city of Colfax, Wash., appeared before the registration board for...

...No. 79. Under the 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, the President directs that for the period of the existing emergency there shall be raised...