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erinary Surgeon-General and two officers of the Medical Department, whose duty 
it shall be to examine such candidates as shall present themselves for examina¬ 
tion, and shall report and certify to the Honorable Secretary of War in their or¬ 
der of merit the names of such candidates who have passed examinations satis¬ 
factory to said Board. 
§ 5. Within one month after the receipt from the said Examining Board of 
the certificates of the candidates who shall have passed satisfactory examina¬ 
tions, the President of the United States shall appoint to the various positions 
junior to the Veterinary Surgeon-General the said candidates, to take rank ac¬ 
cording to the order of merit certified by said Examining Board, not to exceed 
the number in Section 1. 
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§ 6. All veterinarians who at the passage of this Act shall be in the employ 
of the United States Army may be granted three months’ leave of absence, with 
full pay, for the purpose of preparing themselves for examination; or if they so 
elect, shall, on the recommendation of their Regimental Commander, be ap¬ 
pointed Veterinary Surgeon, with rank, allowances and pay of Second Lieuten- 
nant of Cavalry, but shall hold no higher position, except by examination as 
herein provided. 
§ 7. The Honorable Secretary of War shall thereafter appoint from time to 
time a Veterinary Examining Board, which shall consist of the Veterinary Sur¬ 
geon-General and two (2) veterinarians of the United States Army Veterinary 
Corps, to examine candidates for the position of veterinarian and for the promo¬ 
tion of veterinarians to such vacancies as may hereafter occur in the senior posi¬ 
tions in the United States Army Veterinary Corps. Promotion to the rank of 
Captain to be by seniority. 
§ 8. Applicants for positions in the United States Army Veterinary service 
(except such as are employed at the time of the passage of this Act) must com¬ 
ply with the same preliminaries as are now required of candidates for admission 
to the Army Medical Corps. 
§ 9. This Act shall take effect immediately. 
To the President of the Long Island Veterinary Society: 
Your committee beg to report that they have had printed five hundred copies 
of the proposed Act, together with five hundred copies of report and circulars, and 
have mailed nearly the whole of them as recommended in said report. 
That your committee have met since the last meeting of your Society, to 
draft circular and make one or two slight necessary alterations in bill; and your 
committee are pleased to state that they have received many endorsements of 
their bill. 
That the Chairman of your committee, on receipt of a telegram from Profes¬ 
sor Huidekoper, Chairman of the Committee on Army Legislation of the United 
States Veterinary Medical Association, met him in consultation on the matter of 
army legislation. 
That they together saw Professor Liautard, Editor of American Veteri¬ 
nary Review and discussed the matter fully. 
That Professor Huidekoper produced a copy of a bill (which will be brought 
before the Society at this meeting), which he stated that the army headquarters 
was in sympathy with, that said bill is in substance the same, except that it does 
