VETERINARY DEPARTMENT IN INDIA. 465 
and Regimental Allowances as is granted to the Veterinary 
Surgeons of the Company’s Army of the same length of 
Service in India. Any difference arising out of the applica¬ 
tion of this rule will be deducted from the Batta of the indi¬ 
vidual. This order to have effect from the 1 st proximo. 
The Honorable the Court of Directors having ordered 
that Veterinary Surgeons are to be supplied with Professional 
Instruments from the Public Stores, the requisite articles are 
to be issued to them gratis from the Medical Depots, on In¬ 
dent, previously sanctioned by the Medical Board. The 
Instruments thus furnished are to be considered public pro¬ 
perty, 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 Quarter 
Masters, to whose custody they will be intrusted whenever 
a Veterinary Surgeon quits a Regiment without being regu¬ 
larly relieved at the time by a successor. 
When any of the Instruments are w T orn out, or become 
otherwise unserviceable, they are, after survey, to be replaced 
by Indent, prepared and attested in the prescribed form, and 
countersigned by the Commanding Officer of the Corps, pre¬ 
vious to transmission to the Secretary of the Medical Board. 
When a Cavalry Regiment of His Majesty’s Service quits 
India the Instruments are to be returned into the nearest 
Medical Depot, and a receipt is to be taken for them. 
Veterinary Surgeons being authorised 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 express purpose of supplying, amongst 
other articles enumerated, proper e< Musalas and Physic,” 
the Bill of Charges for Veterinary Medicines, furnished on 
Indent from the Public Stores, for the use of a mounted 
Corps, to be laid by the Veterinary Surgeon before the 
Commanding Officer, who will cause him to be reimbursed 
by Officers Commanding Troops, apportioning the amount of 
the charges to be adjusted by them, and collecting it through 
the Regimental Staff. 
All Indents prepared by Veterinary Surgeons are to be in 
due form, and to be countersigned by Commanding Officers 
of Corps respectively, previous to transmision to the Medical 
Board. 
