Excerpt from Report of the Provost Marshal General to the Secretary of War on the First Draft Under the Selective-Service Act, 1917
The plan itself is described in full in the following excerpt from a letter to the governors of the several States under date of April 23, 1917, nearly a manth before the enactment of the selective sci vice law.
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