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in the active and reserve services of the army 
to their thirtieth year, unless they have been 
declared finally exempt from military service. 
46. NETHERLANDS. The Department is in¬ 
formed that a subject of the Netherlands must 
register in person or by proxy to take part in 
the drawing of lots for military service in 
January of the year in which he reaches the 
age of 19, if on the first of that month either 
he or his legal representative resides in Europe. 
If, however, neither he nor his legal repre¬ 
sentative maintains his residence in Europe on 
that day but establishes himself in Europe 
thereafter, and before January 1 of the year 
in which the subject reaches the age of 25, the 
subject must register in person or by proxy 
within 30 days after the day upon which he 
or his representative becomes a resident of 
Europe. 
For an enrolled man holding a rank below 
that of noncommissioned officer, liability to 
compulsory service continues until he reaches 
the age of 40, and for a noncommissioned offi¬ 
cer until he reaches the age of 45, and for an 
officer until he reaches the age of 50. 
The drawing of lots for military service takes 
place annually in September for the levy of the 
next year. The result of this drawing indi¬ 
cates, first, the ordinary conscripts, or those 
men who are destined for military service in 
peace and in war time as well as during the 
period of emergency; and, second, the extraor¬ 
dinary conscripts, or those men destined only 
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for service in time of war and other extraor¬ 
dinary circumstances. 
The enrolled man is exempt from military 
service if he is mentally or physically disabled. 
He is exempt, moreover, in peace time provided 
one of his brothers has aready served a fixed 
term and provided he makes application for 
exemption in due time. The exemption is only 
conditional, however, when granted before the 
drawing of lots for military service and when 
half of the number of the enrolled man’s 
brothers, or if the number is uneven, the larg¬ 
est number less than half, has not yet served, 
and is not destined for ordinary conscription. 
No military service is required of one who 
became a citizen of the United States and has 
ceased to be a Netherland subject before the 
calendar year in which he became 19 years of 
age, and a Netherland subject who in that 
year becomes a citizen of the United States 
and loses his status as a citizen of the Nether¬ 
lands, between January 1 and the next drawing 
of lots, may have his name removed from the 
register by applying to the burgomaster of the 
community in which he was registered. If he 
does not have his name removed from the 
register or if he becomes a citizen of the United 
States after the drawing of lots has begun, his 
naturalization does not affect his military obli¬ 
gations to the Netherlands, and if he returns 
he is liable (1) to fulfill his service, if he did 
not respond to the summons for service, or (2) 
to be enlisted. In both cases he is liable to 
be punished if his return takes place within a 
fixed number of years. 
