10 Hints for Mounted OfUcers. 



nary surgeon for however short a period, must pay Rs. 18 for 

 each horse attended : this payment entitles him to veterinary 

 attendance for nine months. (See G. 0. 401 of 1875.) 



Loss of Horses. 



Para. 607. Indemnification for horses lost in action or destroyed in con- 

 sequence of being infectiously diseased, is only admissible to an officer in 

 receipt of horse allowance, either as a distinct allowance, or as an item in 

 his pay, or in any established allowance he draws ; and to an officer who 

 does not receive horse allowance, when employed on mounted duty in the 

 field in any of the following positions :— 



(a) A Eoyal Artillery Officer attached to a heavy battery. 

 (')) An Infantry Officer below the rank of Field Officer when perform- 

 ing the duties of that grade in room of an absent Field Officer. 

 (c) An Officer acting as orderly officer to an Officer commanding a 

 Division or Brigade, who is allowed to appoint two such. 

 603. An Officer of Horse Artillery, Horse Field Battery, or Cavahy, is 

 allowed for the loss of a charger selected from the remounts of his corps, 

 indemnification equal to the price he would receive on returning such char- 

 ger to the ranks. 



609. A Mounted Officer is allowed indemnification for the loss of a char- 

 ger not selected from the ranks, equal to the residue of the price paid for 

 the horse after deduction of 10 per cent, per annum, provided the residue 

 does not exceed Rs. 800, which is the maximum allowed in any case. 



610. An Officer who can claim indemnification for the loss of a horse 

 under Article 607, is required to register in the Station or Regimental Re- 

 cords the price he pays for his charger ; when a horse has come into the 

 possession of an officer otherwise than for a money-payment, a value is to 

 be assigned by a committee to be assembled by the Commanding Officer of 

 the Station, which value is to be recorded as its price. 



611. Indemnification for horses of officers destroyed on account of 

 farcy or glanders will only be admitted when the horse has been destroyed 

 on the authority of a Special Committee, attended, if possible, bv a Veteri- 

 nary Surgeon. (Army Regulations, India, Vol. I.) 



