Email Record: Increase in the commissioned personnel of the Ordnance Department. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a copy of a letter from the Chief of Ordnance to the Adjutant General of the Army setting forth the need of the Ordnance Department for an earlier increase in the numbers of its commissioned personnel than is carried by the National-Defense Act of June 3, 1916, together with a copy of the opinion of the Judge Advocate General relative thereto.