THE ARMY VETERINARY DEPARTMENT. 395 
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If above 20 and under 25 years" service . ; .70 
Jf above 25 and under 30 years 1 service . . .80 
If above 30 years 1 service . . . . . .12 0 
“ 1. If a veterinary surgeon shall be reduced, or shall retire 
to half-pay before he has completed three years 1 service at home, 
or two years abroad, he shall be allowed only temporary half¬ 
pay of 3s. 6cl. a-day; agreeably to the scale and regula¬ 
tions prescribed heretofore for the temporary half-pay of sub¬ 
alterns. 
“ 2. Every veterinary surgeon who may have served upon 
full-pay for twenty-five years and upwards, or who may have 
served for twenty years, provided he has passed five years 
abroad, shall have the right to retire upon half pay, at the rates 
assigned to those periods of service. 11 
Such are the hopes and prospects held out to meritorious 
veterinary services in the army: they are not so encouraging as 
they might have been; but what we have to complain of is, that 
we are left by these regulations in a w orse condition than we 
were in according to those under which we-(who are now 
commissioned) entered the service. 
SUPPLY OF MEDICINE. 
The horses composing the several regiments of cavalry are 
supplied with medicine, as they are with forage, by contract. 
The contractor is the principal veterinary surgeon to the ca¬ 
valry, Mr. Coleman ; who has a contract with government to 
furnish the medicine required by the respective regimental ve¬ 
terinary surgeons at three-pence a month (or three shillings pe; 
annum) for each horse. So that, estimating a regiment of ca¬ 
valry at three hundred horses, the contractor receives £45 per 
annum for their consumption of medicine; and taking the w hole 
of the cavalry in England at fifteen regiments, Mr. Coleman 
receives annually about £700, perhaps rather more than less, on 
account of the officers’ horses, up to a certain number, being 
also included in the contract. I only reckon about fifteen regi¬ 
ments in England and Scotland, because those serving in Ire¬ 
land and India furnish their own medicines; and the household 
troops and 10th Hussars having also the same privilege. 
I am not apprised of the specific terms or conditions of this 
contract, nor do I know r that I possess any means of obtaining 
them (even were I quite sure that any were in existence, of 
which, by-the-by, I entertain one or two strong doubts) ; how¬ 
ever, be that as it may, a quondam cotemporary of The Vete¬ 
rinarian was, some time ago, bold enough to publish a list of 
such articles (in addition to medicines) as Mr. Coleman, in his* 
