VETERINARY SURGEON OF THE INDIAN ARMY. 2o5 
month. The other fund is the orphans, to which you subscribe 
3 rupees per month. Well, then, ^ ^ 
The Gross Pay and Allowances are, per month-310 10 
Subscription to Military Fund.5 rup. > 8 0 
Ditto Orphans ditto----..3 do. S 
S02 10 
Reduce Sonat Rupees into Sicca Rupees at 5 per ct. 15 2 
Total nett amount per month for the first 3 years .. 287 8, or 
nearly 24s. per day. ■ T - " 
The horse and palanquin allowance will be drawn under the same 
rules that govern the claims of assistant surgeons of cavaliy corps, 
that is, w r hen on actual duty. Veterinary surgeons will be mti- 
tled to the indulgence of boat allowance on pioceeding to join a 
regiment on their first arrival in India, as prescribed, if oidered 
within eight months of their arrival. The Honourable the Court 
of Directors having ordered that veterinary surgeons are to be 
supplied with professional instruments from the public stoies, 
the requisite articles are to be issued to them giatis from the 
medical depots on indent, previously sanctioned by the medical 
board. The instruments thus furnished are to be considered 
public property; and, as such, a quarterly return of them is to 
be made by the veterinary surgeons, respectively, to the medical 
board; and they are to be entered on the returns of the quaiter- 
masters, to whose custody they will be entrusted whenever a 
veterinary surgeon quits a regiment, without being regularly re¬ 
lieved at the time by a successor. 
When any of the instruments are worn out, or become other¬ 
wise unserviceable, they are, after survey, to be leplaced by in¬ 
dent, presented and attested in the prescribed form, and counter¬ 
signed by the commanding officer of the corps, previous to trans¬ 
mission to the secretary of the medical board. 
Veterinary surgeons being authorized to indent on the medical 
stores for such medicines as they may require, strictly applicable 
to the public service, the cost of them is, in the first instance, to 
be placed to the debit of the veterinary surgeon, who will be 
held responsible to government; but, as officers in command of 
troops draw a monthly allowance for each horse, for the expiess 
purpose of supplying, amongst other articles enumerated, pioper 
“musalahs* and physic,” the bill of charges for veterinary 
* As the natives of India like hot curries, I suppose the horses also 
would like something warm; consequently there is an order that all horses 
shall have a treat of musalahs (Indostanee spice) whenever the command¬ 
ing officer shall think they require it, once or twice a-week; and it was 
generally composed of salt and pepper in equal parts. I scarcely need say 
I did away with this in the troop to which I belonged. 
