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Proclamation 4101—Supplementing Proclamations Providing for Registration Under the Military Selective Service Act, as Amended

January 13, 1972


By the President of the United States Of America

A Proclamation

Under authority vested in him by the Military Selective Service Act (62 Stat. 604), as amended, the President by Proclamations No. 2799 of July 20, 1948, No. 2937 of August 16, 1951, No. 2938 of August 16, 1951, No. 2942 of August 30, 1951, No. 2972 of April 17, 1952, and No. 3314 of September 14, 1959, provided for the registration of male citizens of the United States and of other male persons who are subject to registration under section 3 of said act.

Public Law 92-129, approved September 28, 1971, excluded from the requirement of registration under section 3 of the said act any alien lawfully admitted to the United States as a nonimmigrant under section 101(a) (15) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, as amended (66 Stat. 163; 8 U.S.C. 1101), for so long as he continues to maintain a lawful nonimmigrant status in the United States.

Certain provisions of the aforesaid proclamations refer to persons who shall be registered on the day they attain the eighteenth anniversary of the day of their birth or within five days thereafter.

Now, Therefore, I, Richard Nixon, President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority veste4 in me by the Constitution and the statutes, including the Military Selective Service Act, as amended, do proclaim that the registration of persons shall continue to be accomplished in accordance with the provisions of the aforesaid proclamations except (1) that aliens excluded from the requirement of registration by Public Law 92-129 approved September 28, 1971 shall not be registered, and (2) that persons required by the aforesaid proclamations to be registered on the day they attain the eighteenth anniversary of the day of their birth or within five days thereafter shall be registered on the day they attain the eighteenth anniversary of the day of their birth or within the period of sixty days commencing thirty days before such date.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this thirteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred seventy-two, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred ninety-sixth.

Signature of Richard Nixon

RICHARD NIXON

Richard Nixon, Proclamation 4101—Supplementing Proclamations Providing for Registration Under the Military Selective Service Act, as Amended Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/307606

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