ARMY VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
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eligibility, including a certificate of his not being under 
twenty-two, and not more than twenty-five years of age. 
Should the ordeal be satisfactory to the assembled members, 
he would be appointed in course of time as a probationer to a 
regiment for about six months — a final test previous to his 
being gazetted. On appointment, he would be required 
forthwith to provide himself a regimental outfit, which at 
the lowest possible price, would cost £100; fifty days* pay, 
£20, would be immediately stopped for band and * mess sub- 
scription; for the purchasing of two horses (the regulated 
number) say £80; regimental horse-appointments, £50; 
two suits of plain clothes for soldier servant, £12; furnish- 
ing room with iron bedstead, bedding, carpet, wash-hand- 
stand, tub, chair, and a set of drawers, £25 at the lowest, 
making £287 ; besides paying income-tax of 1 Is. 9 d. on the 
fifty days* pay stopped, making in all £557 Us. 9d. expen- 
diture, before he would receive a penny of pay. 
The subsequent expenses per month, as per regulations, 
are, subscription to papers for the mess, about 4s.; mess 
guests, on an average, 5s.; forage for two horses, £2 
(Government paying the difference) ; shoeing and medicine, 
5s. 6d.; soldier servant’s wages, 10s.; woman servant, £l ; 
band and mess subscription, 16s. : barrack damages, on an 
average, 3s. : income-tax, 7s. ; total, £5 10s. 6d. : which, if 
deducted from £12 (one month’s pay), leaves £6 9s. 6d. a 
month to live upon as an officer and a gentleman. 
Having gone so far in my researches, and being curious 
to know how army veterinary surgeons were provided for as 
their length of service advanced, caused me to make further 
inquiries, and I think it advisable to give the result of my 
discoveries for the benefit of others, for I am sure there are 
many requiring such information. 
Rank. — Veterinary surgeons first rank as cornets; 
„ „ after 10 years* service, as 
lieutenants ; 
,, „ after 20 years* service, as 
captains ; 
and take their choice of quarters according to their seniority 
of rank. 
Ray and Allowances . — 
Veterinary surgeons receive 
„ „ „ after 
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3 
10 
20 
years . 
s. d. 
8 0 per diem. 
10 0 „ 
12 0 „ 
15 0 „ 
