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FRENCH VETERINARY SCHOOLS. 
boarding students, are distributed between the three schools by 
the Secretary of Agriculture and Commerce. 
These are granted according to the rank of the students after 
the examination of admission, or those for passing to a higher 
class, after they have given proof of the insufficiency of their 
pecuniary means or of that of their family to pay the whole or 
partial fee of their education. 
They are only granted for a scholar year—they may be con¬ 
tinued in favor of the student who may have proved worthy of 
it by his conduct or his advance in his studies. 
Sec. 5. Students have regimentary uniform, designated by 
the Secretary. This cannot be changed in any way, even outside 
of the school. 
Chapter II. 
Admission of Students. 
Sec. 6. No one is admitted except by way of examination. 
This takes place every year in each school at a fixed time. 
i Sec. 7. To be admitted to this examination, each candidate 
must be seventeen years of age at least, and not more than twenty- 
five, on the 1st of October of the year the examination takes 
place. No allowance on account of age is granted. 
Sec. 8. The application for admission to the examination is 
made on stamped paper to the Secretary of Agriculture, either 
directly or through the prefect of the Department where the can¬ 
didate resides. 
It must be accompanied by the following : 
1st. The certificate of birth of the candidate. 
2d. One from a physician showing that the applicant has had 
small pox, or has been revaccinated within at least three years. 
3d. A certificate of moral character granted by the principal 
of the establishment where the candidate terminated his last year’s 
studies or by the Mayor of his last place of residence. 
4tli. On stamped paper, an obligation of the parents to guar¬ 
antee the payment of the fees during the time the candidate shall 
be a student. 
This must be endorsed by a correspondent living in the 
vicinity of the school, in case the parents of the candidate are not 
inhabitants of the locality where the school is situated. 
