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Cl. 30.

Regulations for the Veterinary Department.

REGULATIONS FOR THE VETERINARY DEPARTMENT,

Medicine, Instruments, and Surgical Means.

The following will be inserted after paragraph 111a, February added to the Regulations for the Veterinary Department (Army Regulations, Vol. XII.) by Clause 160, Army Circulars, 1884-

1886.

1116. Veterinary wallets will be issued to mounted corps, as follows:-

Cavalry

Royal Artillery

14

PEACR.

2 per regiment. I per baltaTT.

Cotomissariat and Transport Corps per company. Royal Engineers

Cavalry

12

Royal Artillery

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WAR.

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1 for usch Pontoon Troop

Field Company, and Field

Park; and 1 for the fst Division, Telegraph Bat- tation.

1 per aquadron. per battery.

Commissaristand Transport Corps 1 per company. Boyal Engineers

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for each Pontons Troop,

Field Company, Field Park, and Section, Tulographi Mattalion.

111c, These wallots are intended for the use of Veterinary Surgeons, or other Officers in charge, when the medicine chests are not at hand, as in the field or on the line of march.

1112. When requisitions are forwarded for fresh supplies of veterinary stores, the number of wallets in hand must be entered upon them, and the Veterinary Surgeons or other Officers forwarding these requisitions will be held responsible that the wallets are kept complete. Should any deficiency be found in them, a note of this must be made on the form of requisition. A list of the contents is pasted upon the inside of the lid, with directions as to use; but in time of peace the Veterinary Surgeon in charge will be at liberty to substitute any medicines he prefers for those enumerated. When about to take the field the modicines mentioned in the list will be obtained on requisition.

egulations for the Veterinary Department-continued.

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111e. The wallets should be taken to all mounted. parades, being carried upon the off side of the saddle continued. by the Orderly Farrior, and attached in the same manner as a carline bucket.

GENERAL REGULATIONS,

Legal Proceedings,

P

I.--General Regulations.

1. All offences against the ordinary criminal code of Cl. 31.

the country committed by persons subject to the Army February Act, and brought to the cognizance of the Commanding

1886. Officer, should forthwith be notified by him to the local police, that the same may be dnly investigated by their agency, and punished by the civil criminal tribunals.

2. No solicitor will be employed on behalf of the public by any Commanding Officer in any legal proceeding. In any case where legal aid is thought to be necessary, a remand will be applied for, and a full report of the case (with depositions, if any) transmitted to the Secretary of State for War, who will, it he thjuks fit, supply legal aid through the Solicitor to the Treasury.

3. Until the Secretary of State directs the Solicitor to the Treasury to take charge of any legal proceedings, or to reimburse the cost, he will ineur no responsibility whatever on account thereof.

4. When authority is sought to commence or to defend legal proceedings either in the name or on behalf of the Secretary of State, a full statement of the facts must be sent up by the General Officer Commanding to the Under Secretary of State authenticated by the Head of the Heads Department or Commanding Officer concerned.

of Departments when serving under General Officers Commanding, and Commanding Officers of Corps, will forward their applications through the General Officer.

5. Where Officers, or soldiers, are made defendants in civil or criminal proceedings, the defence thereof will be conducted upon the sole responsibility of such defendants until the decision of the Secretary of State is given. See also paragraph 6794 of the Allowance Regulations,

1884.

6. When any claim is preferred to the Secretary of State for assistance in, or for the reimbursement of the cost of the defence, it must clearly be shown, with