VETERINARY DEPARTMENT OF THE FRENCH ARMY. 401 
2. Assistant veterinary surgeons of the second class are 
elected from such pupils as have obtained diplomas at the Go¬ 
vernment Veterinary Schools, who are under thirty years of age, 
and can produce good moral characters. 
3. Assistant veterinary surgeons of the second class are 
promoted into the first partly by seniority, and partly by election. 
4. Full veterinary surgeons of the second class are thereto 
promoted from assistant veterinary surgeons of the first class, 
after having served at least two years in the latter rank. 
5. The principal veterinary surgeons are elected from among 
such veterinary surgeons of the first class as have served not 
less than four years in that rank. 
6. No person can be promoted to superior rank without hav¬ 
ing passed one year in the class immediately below. 
7. Veterinarians will take rank among themselves according 
to their grade, the several classes being subordinate to one 
another. 
This regulation is intended to be altogether special, having 
no reference whatever, directly or indirectly, to military rank. 
Veterinary surgeons rank, both in regiments and on the staff, 
next to medical officers. 
The retiring allowances of veterinary surgeons will be the 
same as fixed by the regulation of the 11th April, 1831, which 
are,— 
Principal veterinary surgeons from 1200 to 1600 francs 
(£50 to £67) per annum. 
Veterinary surgeons of the first and second classes, from 800 
to 1200 (£34 to £50) per annum. 
Assistant veterinary surgeons of the first and second classes, 
from 600 to 1000 (£25 to £42) per annum. 
The following constitutes a Table of the pay and allowances 
of veterinary surgeons in the French army. 
