VETERINARY DEPARTMENT OF THE FRENCH ARMY. 403 
In ratifying the foregoing regulations for the veterinary de¬ 
partment of the army, the President of the Republic has done 
more for the amelioration of the veterinary profession, and the 
science which constitutes its basis, than every successive ad¬ 
ministration has effected for the last forty years. Prince Louis 
Napoleon alone has been able to estimate the value of such re¬ 
gulations to the interests of the army, and the advantage of a 
science the professors of which he has raised from a state of 
inferiority in which they have been too long systematically 
maintained, for which the veterinary profession owes him a deep 
debt of gratitude. 
Recueil de Med. Ved. Jan. 185*2. 
To the foregoing we annex a scale of the pay, &c. of veteri¬ 
nary surgeons of our own army. 
Pay and Allowances of Veterinary Surgeons of the British 
Army. 
Grade. 
Daily 
Pay. 
After 
3 
years 
After 
10 
years 
After 
20 
years 
After 
25 
years 
After 
30 
years 
Forage. 
Retirement. 
1 
Principal Vete- \ 
rinary Surgeon / 
21s. 
— 
— 
— 
— 
— 
— 
30 
Veterinary Sur- > 
geons.J 
8s. 
10s. 
12s. 
15s. 
17s.6d. 
For two 
horses 
J 
1 
-After 25 years of 
servitude 10s. per 
diem ; after 30 
years, 12s. per 
'diem. 
*** Travelling expenses at the rate of 5s. for miles under 
10 and not exceeding 16; beyond 16 and under 32, 6d. per 
mile extra after the first 16 miles; beyond 32, 6d. per mile for 
the entire distance travelled. 
Veterinary surgeons, on entering the service, take rank as 
cornets ; after ten years’ servitude, as lieutenants ; after twenty 
years, as captains; it being understood that such precedence in 
rank be restricted to choice of quarters, &c. 
