H. L. SCOTT. Major General, Chief of Staff. OFFICIAL: H. P. McCAIN, The Adjutant General. Here is an example of a _General Order_ of a Territorial Department. GENERAL ORDERS, } HEADQUARTERS EASTERN No. 1. } DEPARTMENT, Governors Island, N. Y., January 1, 1916. This order supersedes General Orders, No. 1, Headquarters Eastern Department, dated January 1, 1915, and all amendatory orders thereto, together with all bulletins published heretofore. BY COMMAND OF MAJOR GENERAL WOOD: EDWIN F. GLENN, Colonel, General Staff, Chief of Staff. Official: W. A. SIMPSON, Adjutant General, Adjutant. The above order is the first page of an alphabetical list of general orders in force in the Department. Some of them have been originated by the Department Commander and some have been made to comply with War Department instructions. The general order of a Department covering court-martial cases is the same as that of the War Department, with the exception of the caption which is given below. General Court-Martial } HEADQUARTERS EASTERN Orders, No. 6. } DEPARTMENT. Governors Island, N. Y., Jan. 22, 1916. Here is an example of a Post General Order. Headquarters United States Military Academy, West Point, N. Y., February 27, 1917. General Orders, } No. 7. } 1. A vertical filing system (the War Department Correspondence File, a subjective decimal classification for arranging and filing War Department correspondence) will be used exclusively in recording and filing correspondence at these headquarters and also in the offices of the Quartermaster and of the Treasurer on and after March 1, 1917. 2. The operation of General Orders, No. 92, War Department, 1909, as modified by subsequent orders, prescribing the card record system now in use generally at administrative headquarters, has been suspended by the War Department as far as these headquarters is concerned. 3. The name of the writer signing an original paper will be inserted on carbon copies that are forwarded. One carbon copy of all typewritten reports, letters, and indorsements (except short, routine indorsements), will be made on standard letter size paper (not perforated) for use in the records at these headquarters. Such copy will be distinctly marked “For Headquarters Records,” and will not be withdrawn at subordinate offices.