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14. If a Veterinary Officer be placed on half-pay from any other 
cause than hereinbefore mentioned, he shall only be allowed a temporary 
rate of half-pay, not exceeding the rates stated in Clause 9 for such 
period and at such rate as shall be assigned to him by Our Secretary of 
State for War, on a consideration of the length and character of the 
services rendered by such Veterinary Officer. 
15. The relative rank of the Veterinary Officers of Our Army shall 
be as follows :— 
Veterinary Surgeon on appointment as Subaltern. 
Veterinary Surgeon of the First Class on promotion as Captain. 
Staff Veterinary Surgeon on promotion, as Major, but junior of 
that rank. 
16. Such relative rank shall carry with it all precedence and advan¬ 
tages attaching to the rank with which it corresponds, (except as regards 
the Presidency of Courts Martial, and of ail Military Courts, Committees, 
and Boards of Inquiry, where Our will and pleasure is, that the senior 
combatant Officer be always President, and except, further, any military 
command whatever), and shall regulate the choice of quarters, rates of 
lodging money, field allowances, forage, servants, fuel, and light, or 
allowances in their stead, detention and prize money. But when a 
Veterinary Officer is serving with a Regiment, Corps, or Detach¬ 
ment, the Officer commanding, though he be junior in rank to such 
Veterinary Officer, shall be entitled to a preference in the choice of 
quarters. 
17. Veterinary Officers shall be entitled to all the allowances granted 
by Our Warrant of 13th July, 1857, on account of wounds and injuries 
received in action, as combatant Officers holding the same relative 
ranks. 
18. Their families shall, in like manner, be entitled to all the allow¬ 
ances granted by Our Warrant of 1 15th June, 1855, to the families of 
combatant Officers holding the same relative ranks. 
19. Veterinary Officers shall be held entitled to the same honours as 
other Officers of Our Army, of equal relative rank. This does not, 
however, extend to the compliments to be paid by garrison or 
regimental guards, as laid down in the Regulations of Our Army. 
Given at Our Court of St. James this first day of July, 1859, in the 
twenty-third Year of Our Reign. 
By Her Majesty’s Command. 
SIDNEY HERBERT. 
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