ENGLISH ARMY VETERINARY DEPARTMENT. 
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fied in Article 19, for a period not exceeding six months at one 
time. In special cases in which the circumstances may appear to 
our Secretary of State to call for exceptional consideration, it 
shall be sufficient that the disability shall have been contracted 
in service. 
10. At the expiration of that period of six months, if the 
veterinary surgeon so appointed be able to resume his duties, lie 
shall be entitled to complete his term of ten years’ service. If 
he be unable to resume duty, as certified by a board of medical 
officers, he shall, if he has not served five years, be allowed to 
remain upon the half-pay list for a further period of six months, 
without half-pay; at the expiration of which period if still unable 
to resume duty, his services shall be dispensed with. 
11. If the veterinary surgeon so appointed have served five 
years on full-pay, and be unable to resume duty as certified by a 
board of medical officers, his services shall be dispensed witlq 
and he shall be entitled to receive, in lieu of all further pay or 
non-effective pay, pension for wounds excepted, a gratuity at one 
of the following rates, viz.:— 
£ 
If he shall have completed 9 years’ 
full-pay service . 
. . 720 
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. . G40 
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. . 560 
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. . 480 
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. . 400 
12. If a veterinary surgeon so appointed be unable to com¬ 
plete his ten years’ service from any cause other than reduction 
of establishment, wounds or ill-health, certified by a board of 
medical officers to have been caused in and by the service, he shall 
be allowed not more than six months’ leave without pay, at the 
expiration of' which period, if unable to resume duty, his services 
shall be at once dispensed with, and he shall have no further 
claim on the Department. 
13. If the services of an officer be temporarily dispensed with 
in consequence of a reduction of establishment, he shall be 
granted the rates of half-pay fixed by Article 19, until there be 
an opportunity of re-employing him, or, if he have served five 
