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age of fifty-five years, and all inspectors-general and deputy irispectors- 
general, when they shall have attained the age of sixty-five years. 
“Officers thus superannuated shall be entitled to the rates of half 
pay stated in the preceding schedule. 
“ 12. Every medical officer who shall have served upon full pay for 
twenty-five years and upwards shall have the right to retire upon half 
pay, at the rate of seven tenths of the daily pay he was in receipt of 
when retiring, provided he shall have served three years in the rank 
from which he retires, or shall have served in any rank for ten years in 
the colonies, or five years with an army in the field. But if he shall 
not have complied with any one of these conditions, he shall be entitled 
only to half pay at the rate of seven tenths of the daily pay he was in 
receipt of before his last promotion. 
“ 13. Every medical officer thus claiming to retire, must give six 
months’ notice to the head of his department of his intention to claim 
this right, prior to his being allowed to retire; and no medical officer 
shall have a right to give such notice after he shall be under orders to 
proceed to any foreign station, until he shall have served at such station 
one month. 
“ 14. If a medical officer is placed on half pay from any other cause 
than those hereinbefore named, he shall only be allowed a temporary 
rate of half pay (not exceeding the rates stated in Clause 10), for such 
period and at such rate as shall be assigned to him by our Secretary of 
State for War, on a consideration of the length and character of the 
services rendered to the public by such medical officer. 
“ 15. On reduction of establishment, the surgeon and assistant- 
surgeon who are junior in the ranks shall be the first reduced, and, on 
restoration to full pay, the reduced officers who are senior in their rank 
shall be the first restored. 
“16. The relative rank of the medical officers of our army shall be 
as follows : 
“Staff or regimental assistant-surgeon, as a lieutenant, according to 
the date of his commission; and after six years’ full pay service, as 
captain, according to the date of the completion of such service. 
“ Staff or regimental surgeon, as major, according to the date of his 
commission ; and surgeon-major, as lieutenant-colonel, but junior of 
that rank. 
“Deputy inspector-general of hospitals, as lieutenant-colonel, ac- 
cording to the date of his commission ; and after five years’ full pay 
service as deputy inspector-general, as colonel, according to the date of 
the completion of such service. 
“Inspector-general of hospitals, as brigadier-general, according to 
the date of his commission; if with an army in the field, or after three 
years’ full pay service as inspector-general, as major-general, from the 
date of his joining such army in the field, or according to the date of 
the completion of such service. 
“17. Such relative rank shall carry with it all precedence and ad- 
vantages attaching to the rank with which it corresponds [except as 
regards the presidency of courts-martial, where our will and pleasure 
is, that the senior combatant officer be always president], and shall re- 
gulate the choice of quarters, rates of lodging money, servants, forage, 
fuel, and light, or allowances in their stead, detention and prize money. 
But when a medical officer is serving with a regiment or detachment, 
the officer commanding, though he be junior in rank to such medical 
officer, is entitled to a preference in the choice of quarters. 
“ 18. Medical officers shall be entitled to all the allowances granted 
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