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EDITORIAL OBSERVATIONS. 
8. It is to be clearly understood that all increase of pay from length 
of service is to be granted subject to a Veterinary Surgeon having dis¬ 
charged his duties with zeal and ability. 
9. After the date of this Our Warrant, every Veterinary Officer 
placed on half-pay by reduction of establishment, or on the report of a 
Medical Board, in consequence of being incapacitated by reason of ill- 
health, caused by wounds or brought on by the discharge of his duties, 
shall be allowed the half-pay which his period of full-pay service may 
entitle him to, according to the following Schedule. 
1 
After 
After 
After 
After 
After 
After 
Under 
25 
20 
15 
10 
5 
3 
3 
years. 
years. 
years. 
years. 
years. 
years. 
years. 
Staff Veterinary Surgeon 
The half- 
15s. 
Us. 
pay of his 
— 
— 
— 
- 
former 
Veterinary Surgeon, 1st 
rank 
Class . 
13s.6c7. 
Us. 6d. 
10s.6tf. 
9s. 6d. 
The half- 
r _ 
pay of his 
former 
Veterinary Surgeon . 
Veterinary Surgeons who 
— 
— 
9s. 6 d. 
8s. 6d. 
rank 
7 S. 
4s. 
Temporary Half 
Pay at 4s. a-day, 
for" a period 
entered Our service prior 
to the date of this War¬ 
rant . 
10s. 
9s. 6 d. 
9s. 6 d. 
8s. 6 d 
7 s. 
4s. 
/ 
equal to that for 
which the Offi¬ 
cer has served 
on Pull Pay. 
10. With a view to maintain the efficiency of the Service, all Officers 
of the rank of Veterinary Surgeons and Veterinary Surgeons of the 
First Class shall be placed on the Retired List when they shall have at¬ 
tained the age of 55 years; and all Staff Veterinary Surgeons when 
they shall have attained the age of 65 years. 
11. Officers thus superannuated shall be entitled to the rate of half¬ 
pay, stated in the preceding Schedule. 
12. Every Veterinary Officer who shall have served upon full-pay for 
twenty-five years and upwards, shall have the right to retire upon half¬ 
pay, at the rate of two-thirds of the daily pay he was in receipt of when 
thus retiring, provided he shall have served three years in the rank from 
which he retires, or shall have served in any rank for ten years in the 
Colonies, or five years with an army in the field. But if he shall not 
have complied with any one of these conditions he shall be entitled 
only to half-pay at the rate of two thirds of the daily pay he was in 
receipt of before his last promotion. 
13. Every Veterinary Officer, thus claiming to retire, must give six 
months’ notice to the head of his Department of his intention to claim 
this right prior to his being allowed to retire ; and no Veterinary Offi¬ 
cer shall be entitled to give such notice after he shall be under orders 
to proceed to any foreign station, until he shall have served at such 
station for one month. 
