used by the executive departments and other Government establishments in Washington, as well as by certain field services. Specifications distributed free to those interested.

Mailing lists.-Lists are maintained for those interested in Government supplies.

Correspondence.-Address Superintendent of Supplies, General Supply Committee, Treasury Department, Washington, D. C.

SOLICITOR OF THE TREASURY.

Publications are issued as follows:

(a) Digest of the Opinions and Briefs of the Solicitor of the Treasury, January 1, 1880, to December 31, 1910, prepared by Robert J. Mawhinney, 510 pages.

(b) Digest of the Opinions and Briefs of the Solicitor of the Treasury, January 1, 1911, to December 31, 1912, prepared by Robert J. Mawhinney, 105

pages.

The opinions and briefs digested in these works were on legal questions arising principally in the Treasury Department and in suits against defaulting contractors and disbursing officers of the Government. These publications are sold by the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., and a limited number of copies are held by the Solicitor of the Treasury for free distribution to public officers and libraries.

Correspondence.-Requests for publications should be addressed to the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., or if for use by a public officer or in a public library, application should be made to the Solicitor of the Treasury.

PART III-DEPARTMENT OF WAR.1

(For location of department, offices, etc., see page 187.)

Principal administrative officials.-Secretary of War: Assistant Secretaries of War; Assistant and Chief Clerk; Private Secretary to Secretary of War; Clerk to Assistant Secretary; Assistant Chief Clerk; Disbursing Clerk; Appointment Clerk; Chiefs of Divisions; Correspondence, Mail and Record, Requisitions and Accounts, Supply, Telegraph.

General information and duties.-The Secretary of War is head of the War Department, and performs such duties as are required of him by law or may be enjoined upon him by the President concerning the military service. He is charged by law with the supervision of all estimates of appropriations for the expenses of the department, including ine Military Establishment; of all purchases of Army supplies; of all expenditures for the support, transportation, and maintenance of the Army, and of such expenditures of a civil nature as may be placed by Congress under his direction.

He has supervision of the United States Military Academy at West Point and of military education in the Army, of the Board of Ordnance and Fortification, of the various battlefield commissions, and of the publication of the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion.

He has charge of all matters relating to national defense and seacoast fortifications, Army ordnance, river and harbor improvements, the prevention of obstruction to navigation, and the establishment of harbor lines; and all plans and locations of bridges authorized by Congress to be constructed over the navigable waters of the United States require his approval. He also has charge of the establishment or abandonment of military posts, and of all matters relating to leases, revocable licenses, and all other privileges upon lands under the control of the War Department.

To the Assistant Secretary of War is assigned the general direction and supervision of all matters relating to rivers and harbors; bridges over navigable waters of the United States; leases, revocable licenses, and all other privileges upon lands under the control of the War Department; inspections relating to the Military Establishment; recruiting service, discharges, commutation of rations, courts-martial, and other questions relating to enlisted men, including clemency cases and matters relating to prisoners at military prisons and penitentiaries. He also has charge of routine matters relating to the militia; the promotion of rifle practice; the supervision of miscellaneous claims and accounts; matters relating to national cemeteries, boards of survey, open-market purchases, and medals of honor.

The Assistant and Chief Clerk of the War Department is the head of the Office of the Secretary of War, and as such has charge of the records and files, and supervision of the receipt, distribution, and transmission of the official mail and correspondence of that office, and is charged with the administrative action required by law to be taken in connection with the settlement of disbursing officers' accounts that do not relate to the different staff corps of the Army. By law he is authorized to sign such official papers and documents as the Secretary of War may direct; and, in pursuance of law, is designated to supervise the classification and compilation of all estimates of appropriations. He is authorized and directed by the Secretary of War to perform the duties assigned the Assistant Secretary of War during the temporary absence from the department of the Assistant Secretary; and he has general supervision of matters relating to civilian employees in and under the War Department; printing and binding and advertising for the War Department and the Army; appropriations for contingent expenses, stationery, rent of buildings; and the department's telegraph and telephone service; and performs such other duties as may be required by the Secretary of War.

1 Since the preparation of this Bulletin two new bureaus have been created, viz: Bureau of Military Aeronautics and the Aircraft Production Board. A Tank Corps has also been established.

GENERAL STAFF CORPS.

Principal administrative officials.—Chief of Staff, Assistants to Chief of Staff, Secretary General Staff Corps, and Chief Clerk.

General information and duties.-The Chief of the General Staff is the immediate adviser of the Secretary of War upon all matters relating to the Military Establishment, and is charged by the Secretary of War with the planning and development of the Army program in its entirety; the constant development thereof in its larger aspects and the relating of this program to the General Staff, and the entire Army. He exercises such supervising and coordinating powers and secures such information as his judgment may dictate, to the end that the war policies of the Secretary of War may be harmoniously executed by the several corps, bureaus, and all other agencies of the Military Establishment, and the Army program to its last detail be carried out speedily and efficiently. In order to accomplish these objects the General Staff has been divided into five main divisions under the direct control of the Chief of Staff, and each division is under an officer who has full power to act for the Secretary of War and the Chief of Staff upon all matters charged to his division.

WAR COLLEGE DIVISION.

(Army War College Building, Washington Barracks, D. C.)

Principal administrative officials.-Chief, Chief Clerk.

General information and duties.-The General Staff Corps was organized under the provisions of act of Congress approved February 14, 1903. Its principal duties are to prepare plans for the national defense and for the mobilization of the military forces in time of war; to investigate and report upon all questions affecting the efficiency of the Army and its state of preparation for military operations; to render professional aid and assistance to the Secretary of War and to general officers and other superior commanders and to act as their agents in informing and coordinating the action of all the different officers who are subject to the supervision of the Chief of Staff; and to perform such other military duties not otherwise assigned by law as may be from time to time prescribed by the President.

The Chief of Staff, under direction of the President, or of the Secretary of War under the direction of the President, has supervision of all troops of the line, of The Adjutant General's Department in matters pertaining to the command, discipline, or administration of the existing Military Establishment, and of the Inspector General's, Judge Advocate General's, Medical, and Ordnance Departments, the Quartermaster Corps, the Corps of Engineers, and the Signal Corps, and performs such other military duties rot otherwise assigned by law as may be assigned to him by the President. For purposes of administration the Office of the Chief of Staff constitutes a supervising military bureau of the War Department.

BOARD OF ORDNANCE AND FORTIFICATION.

Principal administrative officials.-President and six other Recorder.

members,

General information and duties.-Consideration of military inventions. No publications available.

MILITIA BUREAU.

Principal administrative officials.-Chief, Assistant, Chief Clerk. General information and duties.-The Militia Bureau is vested with all administrative duties involving the organization, armament, instruction, equipment, discipline, training, inspection, and payment of the National Guard; the conduct of camps of instruction of the National Guard, and the administrative duties connected with the preparation of the National Guard for participation in field exercises and maneuvers of the Regular Army; the mobilization of the National Guard in time of peace; and all matters pertaining to the National Guard and the unorganized militia of the United States not herein generically enumerated which do not under existing laws, regulations, orders, or practice

come within the jurisdiction of the General Staff or any division or bureau of the War Department, and which will not operate to divest any bureau or division of the War Department of duties now properly belonging to it. He cooperates with the governors of States in the use of troops in the maintenance of civil order.

Publications.-The only publication issued for general distribution is the Annual Report to the Secretary of War, which is for free distribution as long as the limited edition is available by addressing Chief of Militia Bureau, War Department.

OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF COAST ARTILLERY.

Principal administrative officials.-Chief of Coast Artillery, Acting Chief, Senior Assistant, Chief Clerk.

General information and dutics.-The Chief of Coast Artillery is charged with the duty of keeping the Chief of Staff advised and informed as to the efficiency of the personnel and matériel of the Coast Artillery, and of initiating such measures relative thereto as, in the judgment of the Chief of Coast Artillery, shall tend to promote their efficiency. He is charged also with the duty of advising the chiefs of bureaus of the War Department of all matters relating to Coast Artillery matériel or personnel which the experience and observation of the Coast Artillery show to be of practical importance, of submitting recommedations as to the instruction of Coast Artillery officers and men, as to examinations for appointment and transfer of officers to the Coast Artillery Arm and for promotions therein, and as to the assignment of Coast Artillery officers to special duty and to Coast Artillery organizations and stations. He is a member of the Board of Ordnance and Fortification and is by law a member of the General Staff Corps.

Publications.—The only publication available for distribution is the Annual Report of the Chief of Coast Artillery, which is distributed free to those interested, as long as the limited edition printed is available.

OFFICE OF THE JUDGE ADVOCATE GENERAL.

Principal administrative officials.-Judge Advocate General, Assistant, Executive Officer, Chief Clerk and Solicitor.

General information and duties.-The Judge Advocate General is directed by law to" receive, review, and cause to be recorded the proceedings of all courtsmartial, courts of inquiry, and military commissions." He reports upon applications for clemency, parole, pardon, restoration to the colors, remission of citizenship rights, and reenlistment of general prisoners and dishonorably discharged soldiers. He also furnishes the Secretary of War information and advice relating to lands under the control of the War Department, as well as reports and opinions upon legal questions arising under the laws, regulations, and customs pertaining to the Army, and upon miscellaneous questions arising under civil law; examines and prepares legal papers relating to the construction of bridges, dams, or other work over or in navigable waters; drafts bonds and examines those given to the United States by disbursing officers, colleges, rifle clubs, and others; examines, revises, and drafts charges and specifications against officers and soldiers; and also drafts and examines deeds, contracts, licenses, leases, and other legal papers relating to matters under the War Department.

General publications.-(a) Military Laws of the United States, 1915. This volume publishes the military laws of the United States relating to the execu tive departments of the Government; the Army, the Militia, and the Volunteers; the Indians-Indian agents-Indian country; the employment of the military force; soldiers' homes; care of the insane; flag and seal of the United States; and public property.

(b) Manual for Courts-Martial, Courts of Inquiry, and of other Procedure under Military Law, 1917. This work contains the new military code, or articles of war, of 1916 and publishes in detail the procedure thereunder by military courts, including all courts-martial in the National Guard of the several States and Territories and the District of Columbia not in the service of the United States, in so far as applicable, under section 102 of the National Defense Act approved June 3, 1916.

(c) Military Reservations, National Cemeteries, and Military Parks, Title, Jurisdiction, etc., 1916. The scope of this work is described in the preface thereto as follows: "The main purpose of this book is to publish in convenient form for official use information concerning the title of the United States to the various military reservations, including the national military parks and the national cemeteries, and also the statutes of the several States by which political jurisdiction over military reservations located therein has been ceded to the United States. The statement of title describes the deeds under which the lands comprising some of the reservations, or portions thereof, have been acquired, and the Executive orders under which other lands have been reserved from the public domain for military purposes. It describes, also, all easements affecting the title of any reservation, and the leases and licenses granted for any use and occupation of the same, except that unimportant licenses and short-term leases have in some cases been omitted. This book also contains a table of the reservations that have passed from the control of the War Department since 1850, giving the dates of and authority both for their acquisition and disposition with references to acts of Congress, general orders, etc., in connection therewith. In an appendix, under the several titles Eminent domain,' 'Jurisdiction,' 'Title,' and 'Taxation,' there has been brought together a large number of syllabi and extracts from court decisions, and opinions of the Attorney General and of the Judge Advocate General which bear directly upon these subjects."

(d) Digest of the Opinions of the Judge Advocate General of the Army, 1912, with supplement 1912 to April 1, 1917. As the title indicates, this work publishes all opinions of general interest of the Judge Advocate General of the Army from September 3, 1862, to January 31, 1912. The supplement July 1, 1912, to April 1, 1917, includes in addition to the opinions of the Judge Advocate General of the Army, certain decisions of the Comptroller of the Treasury, the courts, and certain opinions of the Attorney General of the United States affecting or of general interest to the Military Establishment.

Method of distribution of general publications.-The publications of the Judge Advocate General's Office are distributed for the official use of the Army and the National Guard. Under the printing and binding act of January 12, 1895, copies of these publications are sold to the public by the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office.

Annual and other periodical publications.-(a) The Annual Report of the Judge Advocate General of the Army shows the work of the department for the fiscal year and gives a summary of military justice as administered in the Army during that period. (b) Monthly Bulletin gives a digest of the opinions of the Judge Advocate General, the Attorney General, and certain decisions of the Comptroller of the Treasury and courts upon various questions arising in the military and civil administration of the War Department and the military establishment.

Mailing lists.-Under the printing and binding laws the publications of this office are distributed by The Adjutant General of the Army, but it is understood that there is no free mailing list maintained in his office.

Correspondence.-Correspondence relative to securing copies should be addressed to The Adjutant General of the Army.

OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL.

Principal administrative officials.-Inspector General, Chief Clerk. General information and duties.-The Inspector General, with his assistants. inspects the United States Military Academy, the service schools; garrisoned posts and commands; camps of maneuver and instruction; staff offices at department headquarters; general hospitals; armories and arsenals; quartermaster, ordnance, medical, torpedo, signal, and engineer depots; recruit depots and recruiting stations; the disciplinary barracks and its branches, and military prisoners in United States penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kans.; ungarrisoned posts; national cemeteries; United States Army transports, cable boats, mine planters, and harbor boats; unserviceable property; money accounts of all disbursing officers of the Army; Soldiers' Home, District of Columbia, and the headquarters and 10 branches of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers; the inspection of the National Guard as required by the act of June 3, 1916; also makes such special investigations as may be ordered, and assists in the annual tactical inspection of troops by department and brigade com37882-183