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.