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EDITORIAL OBSERVATIONS. 
by our warrant of 13th July, 1857, on account of wounds and in- 
juries received in action, as combatant officers holding the same relative 
ranks. 
“ 19. Their families shall in like manner he entitled to all the allow- 
ances granted by our warrant of 1 5th June, 1855, to the families of 
combatant officers holding the same relative ranks. 
*‘20. Medical officers shall be entitled to field allowances, at home 
and abroad, at the following rates, subject to all the conditions and 
restrictions laid down in our warrant of 1st July, 1848 ; 
“ Daily Rate. 
Regimental . Ordinary. 
s. d. 
“ Assistant-surgeon, under six years’ service . 1 0 
“ „ ,, above six years’ service . 1 6 
“Surgeon . . . . .26 
“ Surgeon-major . . . .26 
Staff. 
“ Assistant-surgeon, under six years’ service . 1 6 
“ ,, ,, above six years’ service . 2 0 
“ Surgeons . . . . .30 
“ Surgeon-major . . . .30 
“ Deputy inspector-general, under three years’ 
service . . . .46 
“ „ ., „ above three years’ 
service . . .60 
“ Inspector-general of hospitals . .90 
Extra- 
ordinary, 
s. d. 
2 0 
2 6 
4 6 
4 6 
. 2 6 
. 3 6 
. 5 0 
. 5 0 
7 6 
. 10 0 
. 15 0 
“ 21. Surgeons or surgeons-major of infantry regiments shall not in 
future be subject to any diminution of the allowance of forage, accord- 
ing to the regulations in force, nor to any stoppage out of their daily pay 
for any ration of hay, straw, or oats supplied for the horse or horses 
kept by them for the public service. 
“22. All staff surgeons of the first class, and senior surgeons of 
artillery now serving, or who, being now on half pay, shall hereafter 
be called upon to serve, shall rank as surgeons-major from the date of 
their commissions as staff surgeons of the first class, or senior surgeons 
of artillery, and shall receive the pay of surgeon-inajor, according to 
the foregoing schedule of full pay from the date of this warrant, or 
from the date of being called from half pay to full pay; and all sur- 
geons who have already completed twenty years’ full-pav service, or 
upwards, in any rank, shall have the rank and pay of surgeons-major 
from the date of this warrant. 
“23, Medical officers shall be held entitled to the same honours 
as other officers of our army of equal relative rank.* 
“24. A medical officer, retiring after a full-pay service of twenty-five 
years and upwards, may, if recommended for the same by the head of 
his department, receive a step of honorary rank, but without any 
consequent increase of half pay. 
* This clause does not extend to the compliments to be paid by 
garrison or regimental guards as laid down in pages 29 and 30 of the 
Queen’s Regulations for the Army. 
