Scope and ContentImportant Instructions. Office of the Adjutant General, Trenton, June 28, 1917. Single leaf, mimeograph duplication, 8-1/2" x 11" high. With a related document. Digital images only. Tiffs media archive. After the start of World War I, local boards were being set up to register men (or exempt them - Exemption List is mentioned here) for military service under the Selective Service Act. These "draft boards" were supervised under rather involved military regulations. Document 1: The sheet discusses organization that was to be completed by July 2 regarding preparing registration cards, marking districts, sequential numbering ("although the Regulations state the alphabetical arrangement should be disarranged in numbering...you are directed to disregard this part of the Regulation...") Document 2: 2-page mimeographed instructions also dated June 28, 1917; holographic signature of C.W. Barber, Adjutant General, State of New Jersey.