VETERINARY SURGEON OF THE INDIAN ARMY. 2o3 
health of the horses, and immediately to report to him any ap¬ 
pearance of glanders or farcy, or any other contagious disease. 
Art . 2.—The veterinary surgeons will deliver to the com¬ 
manding officer, every Monday morning, a report of the sick and 
lame horses under his care; and will certify, at the foot of it, 
that during the week he has inspected every horse in the stables. 
Art . 3.—Any horse that is taken ill is to be immediately re¬ 
ported to the veterinary surgeon ; and officers commanding troops 
are expected to give him all the assistance in their power, and 
strictly to enforce obedience to his directions. It will rest with 
the veterinary surgeon wdien to order a sick horse to the hospital 
stable, which is entirely under his charge, and no horse is to be 
removed from it to the lines but by his order. 
Art. 4.—The veterinary surgeon is to keep a book, which 
will contain registers of his practice in cases of sick and lame 
horses, and of the measures which are adopted when any conta¬ 
gious disease makes its appearance, specifying the remedies, or 
mode of treatment, and the result of such treatment. 
Art. 5 .—The veterinary surgeon will take pains to instruct 
the farriers in the proper mode of paring the horses' hoofs, and 
of shoeing. 
Art. 6.—The veterinary surgeon will also take frequent oc¬ 
casion to instruct the farrier-major and the farriers of troops in 
the common operations of veterinary surgery, as well as to point 
out the nature of his practice in ordinary cases, that they may 
know how to treat the horses of their troops when they are de¬ 
tached from the head quarters. To assist them in attaining this 
knowledge, they are to be provided with a book, in which they 
will register the several cases of the horses in the hospital stable, 
noticing the symptoms and the treatment adopted by the veteri¬ 
nary surgeon ; he will frequently inspect these books, and see 
that they are correctly and distinctly kept. 
Art. 7 .—The veterinary surgeon will attend all committees for 
the admission of horses, and will sign the proceedings, as attend¬ 
ing the committee in testimony that he has examined the horses, 
and is satisfied that they are sound. 
Art. 8.—The veterinary surgeon will also attend all commit¬ 
tees assembled to cast horses of the regiment or brigade to which 
he is attached, and, before the assembly of the Annual Casting 
Committee, he will submit to the commanding officer a roll of the 
horses which he thinks ought to be presented to it. 
Approved by his excellency the commander in chief, 
and ordered to be circulated to the cavalry regi¬ 
ments and brigades of horse artillery. 
Chris. Fagan, 
Adjutant-General of the Army. 
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