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THE UNREDRESSED GRIEVANCES OF THE 
INDIAN ARMY VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
Dear Sirs,-— Will you please give insertion to the en¬ 
closed petition to Her Majesty’s Secretary of State for India 
in the Veterinarian , in the hope that it may be the means of 
inducing my ill-used professional brothers in India to follow 
my example at as early a date as possible ? At the same 
time, it is to be remembered that there must be no com « 
bination . The petitions will have to be forwarded through 
their respective commanding officers in quintuplicate. 
1 am, 
Yours faithfully, 
F. G. Shaw, 
Veterinary Surgeon, 
To the Editors of * The Veterinarian / 
To the Right Honorable 
The Secretary of State for India. 
The Rumble Petition of 
Veterinary Surgeon F. G. Shaw, 
Madras Army. 
Showeth—- 
1. That your petitioner holds a commission in Her 
Majesty’s Veterinary Medical Service, and prays that Her 
Majesty’s Royal Warrant dated 1st July, 1859, may be put 
into force in India, so as to entitle your petitioner to the 
increased rank, pay, and pension, therein granted to vete¬ 
rinary surgeons. 
2. That the Royal Medical Warrant published in 1858, 
and subsequently held in abeyance, having been recently 
carried into effect in India, your petitioner is emboldened to 
pray that the Royal Warrant affecting the veterinary 
department dated 1st July, 1859, and cancelled as regards 
India by the order of the Governor-General of India, 
gazetted Fort William, 3rd April, I860, may also be car¬ 
ried out. 
3. That your petitioner entered the Madras Army on 
6th February, 1857, and under the old rules still ranks as 
a cornet in the receipt of eight shillings per diem, and must 
continue to do so until he has completed ten years’ service ; 
whereas, had the Royal Warrant dated 1st July, 1859, not been 
declared inapplicable toFebruary veterinary surgeons inlndia, 
your petitioner would have been entitled from the date of 
that Warrant to an increase of pay of two shillings per diem 
