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merit, Madras, also required some Graduates for temporary employment on a
salary of Rs. 75, but none were willing to accept the appointments.
23. Enquiries for the services of Graduates were also made by the Baster,
Rewali and Shirohi States and by the Superintendent of Police, Kathiawar,
but to no effect—probably because the terms on which Graduates offered to serve
were not accepted.
24. Veterinary Assistants below the prescribed age of 32 employed by the
District Local Boards were addressed in accordance with letter No. 100, dated the
13th January 1907, from the Superintendent, Civil Veterinary Department,
Bombay Presidency, to the address of the Director of Agriculture as to their
willingness to serve with the Reserve of Transport Veterinary Duffadars, but
none of them volunteered to be enlisted in the Reserve.
TRAINING GRADUATES AT THE IMPERIAL BACTERIOLOGICAL
LABOROTORY.
25. Government have decided by Government Resolution, Revenue De-
partment, No. 2126, dated the 27th February 1907, that 10 Graduates who may
be definitely accepted as candidates for the Subordinate Civil Veterinary
service may be deputed annually for the next three years to receive training
in Rinderpest inoculation at the Imperial Bacteriological Laboratory.
SANITARY SURVEYORS' CLASS.
26. Two Graduates passed the Sanitary Surveyors' Examination held in
June last and five others applied for admission to the current Sanitary Class, but
only one has been attending,
SUBORDINATE CIVIL VETERINARY DEPARTMENT.
27. The proposals made for the reorganization of the Subordinate Civil
Veterinary Service have received the final sanction of the Secretary of State
and the service has been made pensionable (Government Resolution, Revenue
Department, No. 1615, dated the 14th February 1907). According to this
scheme the ultimate strength of the Subordinate Civil Veterinary Service is to
be 4 Deputy Superintendents, 24 Inspectors and 215 Veterinary Assistants
divided into four grades, and, as a beginning towards the attainment of this
number, the strength of the Department is to be increased during the next year
from 26 Veterinary Assistants to 38 Veterinary Assistants and 4 Inspectors, so
that 16 more Veterinary Graduates will be required during the ensuing twelve
months. On this account a provision of Rs. 30,000 in addition to the provision
of Rs. 20,000 for grants to Veterinary Dispensaries has been made by Govern-
ment in the next year's budget.
EXTRA DUTIES.
28. The following extra duties were performed:—
(a) The control of the Glanders and Farcy Department in Bombay
and Baudra by the Principal.
(b) The inspection of horses in the stables, at the harbour and the
Sewree Lazaretto and the making of post mortem examination and
arranging for disposal of bodies and collection of Baeteriological proofs of
diagnosis, &c., by the Principal, Assistant Principal and Inspectors under
the Glanders and Farcy Act.
(c) The treatment of sick animals for the Supply and Transport
Department.
(d) The duties of receiving and despatching stallions for the Superin-
tendent, Civil Veterinary Department, Bombay Presidency.
(e) Advising the Commissioner of Police regarding the purchase and
casting of horses.
(f) Conducting, with Mr. M. H. Sowerby, Acting Assistant Principal,
the examinations in Veterinary Science at the Examinations in Agriculture
of the Bombay University.