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THE FRENCH ARMY VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
The special and appointed dispositions, according to the articles 
4 and 6 in the project, should govern the right to promotion in each 
class, and should be regulated by special rules, and their advance- 
ment should not be conferred by favour, but on such as should be 
presented by the general military inspectors. 
Those army veterinary surgeons who may be reported for neglect 
of duty, insubordination, or other bad conduct, should be deprived 
of their office, either temporarily or definitely, according to the 
nature of their offence, and to article 7. Those who have only 
been temporarily suspended may be re-admitted on their former 
footing. 
The pay of the chief veterinary surgeons in actual employ- 
ment, of whom there shall be only six, is fixed at 2500 francs* ; 
that of first veterinary surgeons at 1S00 francst ; that of the aides 
at 1400 francs^ ; and that of the sub-aides at 1200 francs§. These 
new allowances have been sanctioned by the law of the 11th June, 
1842, regulating the expenditure for 1843. 
Finally, on retiring from actual service, the principal veterinary 
surgeons and the veterinary surgeons in chief should receive the 
same amount of pension as that which is allowed to the first ve- 
terinary surgeons, and the aides and sub-aides the same as that 
allowed to the second. 
Such are the statements which I have the honour of submitting 
to your majesty, and which are comprised in the accompanying 
scheme for the new ordinance. I am convinced that the new po- 
sition and increase of pay therein accorded to the army veterinary 
surgeons will not only be an act of justice, but will, by attracting 
to and retaining in the army talented and experienced men, prove 
the means of saving many a horse. 
The President of the Council and Ministerial Secretary at War, 
Marechal Due de Dalmatie. 
18th March, 1843. 
Sire, — The scheme of the ordinance which I have the honour 
of submitting to your majesty has for its object the introduction 
of some modifications into the moral and material position of army 
veterinary surgeons. 
According to this, the principal and first veterinary surgeons 
should be considered as next in rank to the grand etat major of the 
regiment, or establishment to which they are attached. This 
change of position renders it necessary to alter the nature of the 
punishments which may be inflicted on them, in virtue of the 
* £104.3.4. t <£75. X £78.6.8. § £50. 
