Salt Lake Telegram | 1918-10-21 | Page 7 | Registration by Consul is Legal

REGISTRATION BY CONSULIS LEGAL Local Boards and Police to Recognize Certificate. -Crowder Says. Loral board and police authorities are required to recognise certificates j Issued by American consuls In Canada and Great Britain stating that the per-son per-son named In the certificate haa regis -tered before tha comrular officer Issu-Inn Issu-Inn the certificate and that his regie-tint regie-tint ion card haa been forwarded to a local board In the United Statee, according- to a message to Captain F. V. KlttOerald, draft executive officer for I'tah. from Provost Marshal General Knoch H. Crowder. Pome local boarda and police authorities have refused recoR-nltion of these certificates. 'The Issuance of euch certificates. General Oowder stales, "la authorised y this government for the purpose of providing American, clt liens who register regis-ter abroad with evidence of their reg-tstratlnnvpendlng reg-tstratlnnvpendlng the receipt of their registration. certiflraU-a from local boards. Hucti certificates are recognised recog-nised by the Cktiadlan and British authorities au-thorities as evidence of registration under un-der the selective service act, and If a holder of euch certificate enters the United Htatea before he "baa received his registration certificate from hla local lo-cal board, the presentation Ntf euch certificate within the period dt Its validity as stated therein entitles Mni to the same treatment aa If he held a registration certificate In regular form."