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•T. COLLINS 
I. Principal Veterinary Surgeon to rank as Colonel. 
II. The Inspecting Veterinary Surgeon acting as Principal 
Surgeon in India shall rank as Lieutenant-Colonel. - 
III. Inspecting Veterinary Surgeon shall rank as Major; but 
junior of the rank, except for choice of quarters. 
IV. Veterinary Surgeon, 1st class, shall rank as Captain. 
V. Veterinary Surgeon shall rank as Lieutenant. 
4. The relative rank of these officers shall carry all precedence 
and advantages (except as regards forage allowance, and in cer¬ 
tain cases choice of quarters), attaching to their corresponding 
military rank, and shall regulate detention and prize-money, al¬ 
lowances granted on account of wounds or injuries received in 
action, and pensions and allowances to widows and families. 
5. Forage, or the pecuniary allowance in lieu thereof, shall be 
granted to an officer of the Veterinary Department for the num¬ 
ber of horses necessarily kept by him for duty. 
6. A candidate for the Veterinary Department shall possess 
the diploma of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, and 
shall be required to pass an examination before a board of mili¬ 
tary veterinary surgeons, and fulfil such further conditions as 
may be prescribed from time to time by our Secretary of State. 
7 . A candidate who shall have proved after examination that 
he possesses a competent knowledge of the required subjects, 
shall receive a commission as veterinary surgeon for a limited 
period of ten years’ service. 
8. The services of a veterinary surgeon appointed after the 
date of our present warrant shall be dispensed with on the com¬ 
pletion of ten years’ service, unless he be specially selected for 
further employment in the Veterinary Department, or, if he be 
unwilling to continue to serve therein, and he shall be entitled to 
receive in lieu of all pension or retirement, pension for wounds 
excepted, the sum of eight hundred pounds. 
9. A veterinary surgeon appointed after the date of our pres¬ 
ent warrant of less than ten years’ service, who may be disquali¬ 
fied for duty by ill health, certified by a board of medical officers 
to have been contracted in and by the service, may, at the discretion 
of our Secretary of State, be granted half-pay at the rates speei 
