CIRCULAR, No. 4. WAR DEPARTMENT, Permission to be absent from their duties from 12 o'clock m. on the 26th instant will be granted to the employés of the War Department and its bureaus who are members of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and whose services can be spared, to enable them to participate in the parade of the order on that date. Leave taken hereunder will, under the provisions of section 5 of the act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government, &c., approved March 3, 1893, be deducted from the thirty days' leave of absence which may be granted by virtue of said act during the year 1894. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: OFFICIAL: JOHN TWEEDALE, Chief Clerk. Chief Clerk. CIRCULAR, No. 5. WAR DEPARTMENT, In accordance with the opinion of the Attorney General, dated February 10, 1894, all Sundays and holidays included within the period of any leave of absence granted to an employé will hereafter be charged, and paragraph 21 of the Rules and Regulations of the War Department, dated June 4, 1888, on this subject, is revoked. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: JOHN TWEEDALE, OFFICIAL: Chief Clerk. Chief Clerk. CIRCULAR, No. 6. WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, June 6, 1894. It having been observed that existing regulations in regard to briefing official communications addressed to the Secretary of War, though scrupulously followed in some bureaus, are generally neglected in others, it is desired that hereafter such communications should be briefed in the office where they originate, as required by existing orders. Beside the principal paper, every important inclosure should have, on the back of the first fold if practicable, an indorsement sufficient to indicate the character of its contents. Inclosures that are rolled instead of folded should be thus indorsed in such a way that they may be readily identified without unrolling. In these matters the utmost brevity consistent with clearness should be practiced. JOSEPH B. DOE, Acting Secretary of War. OFFICIAL: Chief Clerk. |