VETERINARY DEPARTMENT OF INDIA. 
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are they entitled to draw head money as Medical Officers have 
done previous to the publication of the last Medical Warrant. 
A Veterinary Surgeon in charge of a Regiment of Cavalry 
draws two annas per head for each horse under his charge. 
In a Regiment composed of about 500 horse this would come 
to about sixty rupees per month, but out of this sum he has to 
supply bazaar medicines and all <c Hospital necessaries/’ fire¬ 
wood, bandages, and stationery, and the majority of men 
would, I dare say, much prefer not having the contract at all. 
This is just the position of the Veterinary Surgeons of both 
Services, but the Queen’s men have the most reason to com¬ 
plain, for notwithstanding that some few promotions have 
been made in their service lately, these have brought no 
advantages whatever with them, as they get no increase of 
pay- 
Their position is a most anomalous one, for a First Class 
Veterinary Surgeon gets Captain’s pay in England, but out 
here he can only draw Cornet’s pay, under ten years’ service, 
and he must have completed twenty years’ service before he 
is entitled to draw the pay of his relative rank. 
According to the Royal Warrant a Veterinary Surgeon is 
eligible for promotion to First Class after five years’ service 
on full pay. 
For example, let us suppose then that a Veterinary Surgeon 
serving in India , is promoted to First Class after seven years’ 
service (of which there are instances in the Queen’s Army) he 
must serve a still further period of thirteen years before he 
can draw the pay which his rank entitles him to from the day 
of his promotion. 
I remain, yours faithfully, 
A Lover of Justice. 
To the Editors of c The Veterinarian .’ 
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