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.