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OLOF SCHWARZKOPF. 
One detailed as instructor at the cavalry and artillery school at 
Leavenworth. 
One detailed as instructor at West Point. 
One in charge of a shoeing-school to be established. 
One in charge of a remount-depot to be established. 
In case of war these five veterinary captains should be attached to 
the stair of the army corps. 
12 first lieutenants, mounted, detailed as veterinary surgeons to the 
regiments of cavalry. 
20 second lieutenants, mounted, detailed as assistant veterinary sur¬ 
geons to the regiments of cavalry and artillery, and at such army-posts 
where larger numbers of animals of the Quartermaster’s Department 
are stationed. 
200 farriers, ranking as sergeants, and attached to troops, batteries 
etc. ’ 
200 shoeing-smiths, ranking as sergeants or corporals. 
The duties of this department would be, in outline, as follows • The 
medical and surgical treatment of sick and injured public animals, their 
sanitary supervision in quarters or field, the purchasing, storing and 
distributing of medicines, instruments and appliances, the purchasing 
and condemning of horses and mules, the inspection of cattle and meat 
for army consumption, and the instruction of mounted ofiicers of ad¬ 
vanced cadets, and of farriers and shoeing-smiths. 
cf a bill, embodying the above sketched scope of work 
and the rank, pay and tenure of office of these officers should properly 
be executed by the War Department. j 
The establishment of such a veterinary department in the 
United States army depends upon Congress. If to this body of 
enlightened men the disgraceful condition of the present veteri¬ 
nary service is explained, they will surely remedy it. They 
should know that at present there is no veterinary organization 
whatever in our army; that the War Department considers the 
14 army veterinarians as civilian employes as regards their privi¬ 
leges, but that many minor military authorities regard them as 
soldiers as regards their duties ; that they are appointed by the 
Secretary of War, but that they can be discharged at the pleasure 
of their regimental commander 5 that their pay is only $100 and 
^75 month , that they hav’e to borrow medicines and instru¬ 
ments from the local quartermaster, while the troop commander 
and his farrier can squander them; that their status in many other 
respects is utterly confused and without a precedent in the his¬ 
tory of military organizations. These Senators and Representa¬ 
tives will then understand that the services of veterinarians, so 
hampeied in their position, must be very limited, and they can 
