War Department, Official Business.
June 11th, 1917.

The War Department orders the arrest of every man whose duty it was to register and failed to do it. Please make a searching investigation in every precinct in your county, and if a single man failed to register according to law, report the same to the nearest United States Attorney or Marshal, and the delinquent will be arrested at once. North Carolina registered more men that the Government estimated it would, according to our population. This fine fact makes it all the more important to require all delinquents to be registered. When ninety nine men voluntarily do their duty, it is the essence of justice to the ninety nine to compel the hundredth man to do his. The quota from North Carolina will be based on the original estimate of the Government, and not on our actual registration. Therefore every additional man registered reduces the proportion of the whole that will be first selected for service.

T. W. BICKETT,
GOVERNOR.

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