BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: H. L. SCOTT, Major General, Acting Chief of Staff. OFFICIAL: H. P. McCAIN, The Adjutant General. Departments, Posts, Regiments, Brigades, Divisions, Corps, Field Armies, and Armies follow the same scheme as above for their _Special Orders_. CIRCULARS are issued seldom but have great force. They are signed directly by the heads of the War Department, Quartermaster Corps, Ordnance Department or of whatever bureau prints the circular. Here is an example of a _Circular_ issued by the War Department. WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, January 24, 1917. CIRCULAR: The following resolution was adopted by the Senate on January 16, 1908, and is now one of its standing rules: Resolved, That no communications from heads of departments, commissioners, chiefs of bureaus, or other executive officers, except when authorized or required by law, or when made in response to a resolution of the Senate, will be received by the Senate unless such communications shall be transmitted to the Senate by the President. * * * * * Chiefs of bureaus and others, in preparing communications for the signature of the Secretary of War, will please conform to the foregoing rules and instructions. NEWTON D. BAKER, Secretary of War. Here is a _Circular_ issued by the Quartermaster Corps. WAR DEPARTMENT, Office of the Quartermaster General, U. S. Army, Washington, D. C., August 27, 1917. Circular, } No. 9. } Purchases of Supplies 1. During the continuance of the present emergency the following regulations are prescribed under the authority contained in the act of March 4, 1915: (a) Where the time for delivery is not to exceed 30 days from date of acceptance of the award, irrespective of the amount involved, supplies may be procured by contract of brief form after the manner of proposal and acceptance agreement, in accordance with form to be authorized therefor. (b) The regulations prescribed by Circular No. 7, Office of the Quartermaster General, March 23, 1915, so far as in conflict with the foregoing, are hereby suspended during the continuance of the present emergency. HENRY G. SHARPE, Quartermaster General, U. S. Army. 10916—17 BULLETINS are issued by the War Department and territorial Departments. Their purpose is the publication of information. They are more numerous than _Circulars_. Here is the first page of a Bulletin of the War Department.