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highest satisfactory examination, the President of the United States shall appoint 
to the various positions immediately Junior to the Assistant Veterinary Surgeon 
General the said seven (7) candidates, to take rank according to the order of 
merit certified by said examining board. 
§ 6. The Honorable Secretary of War shall thereafter appoint a Veterinary 
Medical Examining Board selected from the members of the Veterinary Corps 
to examine candidates for the position of Veterinarian and Assistant Veterinarian 
and for the promotion of Veterinarians and Assistant Veterinarians to such vacan¬ 
cies as may hereafter occur in the senior positions in the Veterinary Corps of the 
United States Army except that of Veterinary Surgeon General and Assistant 
Veterinary Surgeon General, which shall be filled by appointment and without 
examination. 
§ 7. To each regiment of Cavalry there shall be assigned one (1) Veterinar¬ 
ian and one (1) Assistant Veterinarian. To each light Battery of Artillery one 
(1) Assistant Veterinarian. To the Cavalry School at Fort Leavenworth two (2) 
Assistant Veterinarians. To Jefferson Barracks two (2) Assistant Veterinarians, 
and to each military post or depot where the number of public animals exceed 
seventy-four (74), one (1) Assistant Veterinarian. 
§ 8. Veterinary Surgeons in the service of the United States Army as such 
at the passage of this Act (whether graduates of Veterinary Medicine or not) shall 
be appointed Assistant Veterinarians without examination on recommendation of 
their Regimental Commanders. 
§ 9. Veterinary Surgeons in the service of the United States Army as such 
at the passage of this Act, who having served twenty or more years in the 
capacity of Veterinary Surgeon or otherwise in the United States Army, shall be 
entitled (after his appointment to the Veterinary Corps) to all the allowances (for 
length of service as Veterinary Surgeon or otherwise in the service of the United 
States Army) of the rank of like grade in other branches of the service. 
§ 10. No person shall be appointed as Veterinary Surgeon General, Assistant 
Veterinary Surgeon General, Inspecting Veterinarian, Veterinarian or Assistant 
Veterinarian in the Veterinary Corps United States Army unless he be a regular 
graduate of a legally chartered or incorporated Veterinary College or University, 
and shall have passed (except in the case of the Veterinary Surgeon General) a 
satisfactory examination before the Examining Board hereinbefore provided, 
except as provided for in Section VIII. of this bill. 
§ 11. No person shall be eligible for appointment to any position in the 
Veterinary Corps United States Army unless he has had at least one year’s 
experience as a practitioner of veterinary medicine between the dates of his gradu¬ 
ation as a Veterinarian and that of his application for examination for appoint¬ 
ment to said Veterinary Corps, and no person over thirty-five (35) years of age 
shall in any case be appointed to any position in said Veterinary Corps except in 
the case of the Veterinary Surgeon General, Assistant Veterinary Surgeon General 
and those provided for in Section VIII. of this bill. 
§ 12. This Act shall take effect immediately. 
