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ARMY VETERINARY DEPARTMENT. 
6. The passing of a physical examination before promotion, 
reappointment, or being commissioned, is called for in the recast. 
7. Reserve veterinarians in the new bill are not given rank, 
and pay for only such time as they are in the service of the 
Government. 
8. The method of securing veterinarians to fill vacancies 
which may occur among the sixty-two veterinarians with rank 
and commission is made more strict. For the first six months 
appointees are probationary veterinarians who may be dropped 
during that period or at its close for unfitness or unsatisfactori¬ 
ness. 
A BILL [H. R. 16843] 
To consolidate the veterinary service, United States Army, and to increase 
its efficiency. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, [That the President is hereby 
authorized, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint 
veterinarians and assistant veterinarians in the Army, not to exceed two 
such officers for each regiment of Cavalry and Field Artillery, three as in¬ 
spectors of horses for the remount depots, one as purchasing officer of 
veterinary supplies, five as inspectors of meats for the Subsistence Depart¬ 
ment, three as veterinary examiners and instructors, and one to act as chief 
veterinarian, not to exceed fifty-five in all. 
Sec. 2. That hereafter a candidate for appointment as assistant veter¬ 
inarian must be a citizen of the United States, between the ages of twenty- 
one and twenty-seven years, a graduate of a recognized veterinary college 
or university, and that he shall not be appointed until he shall have passed 
a satisfactory examination as to character, physical condition, general edu¬ 
cation, and professional qualifications. 
Sec. 3. That an assistant veterinarian appointed under section 2 of this 
Act shall have the rank, pay, and allowances of second lieutenant, mounted; 
that after three years of service an assistant veterinarian shall be promoted 
to the rank, pay, and allowances of first lieutenant, mounted : Provided, That 
he passes a satisfactory examination under such rules as the President may 
prescribe as to professional qualifications and adaptibility for the mounted 
service; or found deficient, he shall be discharged from the Army with 
one year's pay and have no further claim on the Government; that after 
fifteen years of service an assistant veterinarian shall be promoted to veter¬ 
inarian with the rank, pay, and allowances of captain, mounted, after having 
passed such physical and professional examination as the President may 
prescribe; and that from the veterinarians with the rank of captain one shall 
be selected to act as chief veterinarian for the period of four years, and 
while so serving he shall have the rank, pay, and allowances of major. 
Sec. 4. That the veterinarians of Cavalry and Field Artillery, together 
with the veterinarians of the Subsistence Department, now in the Army, 
who at the date of the approval of this Act, shall have less than three years 
of service, be reappointed and commissioned as assistant veterinarians with 
the rank, pay, and allowances of second lieutenant, mounted; that the veter¬ 
inarians who have over three years of service be reappointed and commis¬ 
sioned as assistant veterinarians with the rank, pay, and allowances of first 
lieutenant, mounted; Provided, That they pass a prescribed practical pro- 
