BULLETIN } WAR DEPARTMENT, No. 18. } Washington, April 6, 1917. The following digest of opinions of the Judge Advocate General of the Army, for the month of March, 1917, and of certain decisions of the Comptroller of the Treasury and of courts, together with notes on military justice prepared under the direction of the Judge Advocate General, and a compilation of Federal and State laws prohibiting discrimination against the uniform, is published for the information of the service in general. (2526413 B-A. G. O.) BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: H. L. SCOTT, Major General, Chief of Staff. OFFICIAL: H. P. McCAIN, The Adjutant General. 89793-17—1 Then follow twenty-three pages of the opinions of the Judge Advocate General. Here is another first page of a War Department Bulletin. BULLETIN } WAR DEPARTMENT, No. 14. } Washington, March 12, 1917. The accompanying tabulated statement shows the standing of organizations of the Coast Artillery Corps based on figures of merit attained at target practice during the year 1916, and the hits by calibers at various ranges in 1916. Slight errors in the figures of merit have been corrected without returning the reports to the organizations concerned. (2537101, A. G. O.) BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: H. L. SCOTT, Major General, Chief of Staff. OFFICIAL: H. P. McCAIN, The Adjutant General. 83601-17—1 What follows for nine pages is a table of statistics on Coast Artillery firing records. Territorial Departments issue _Bulletins_ seldom. The pamphlets when they do appear, follow the same plan as those of the War Department. _MEMORANDA_, are issued by posts, regiments, and separate battalions—by the smaller units. _Memoranda_ deal with subjects which are not so important in a military way as the foregoing orders. They may be numbered, as in the following case, when they are of a permanent nature. HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY, West Point, N. Y., October 8, 1917. Memorandum, } No. 34. } To prevent damage and danger from fires, parents and others will exercise great care in allowing children under age of discretion to have access to, or to handle matches, or in allowing them to burn leaves or other combustibles in any part of the Post. (680.23)