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37. Every Medical Officer who may have served
upon full-pay for twenty-five years and upwards shall
have the right to retire upon half-pay, and may be re-
commended for the rate assigned to his rank and service
in the Schedule annexed to Art. 35, provided he shall
have served three years in the rank from which he re-
tires ; but if he shall not have served three years in such
rank, he shall receive only the rate attached to the rank
from which he was last promoted.
38. If a Medical Officer shall have served thirty
years on full-pay, including three in the rank from which
he retires, or not having served such three yearn, shall
have served ten in the Colonies, or five with an army in
the field, in any rank, he may be allowed the rate of
half-pay assigned to his rank in the schedule annexed to
Art. 35 : but it is not to be understood that this clause
is intended to convey any authority to place any officer
-in retirement immediately subsequent to any promotion
he may obtain.

VETERINARY SURGEONS.

39. The rate of half-pay for a Veterinary Surgeon
shall be regulated by his service on full-pay, according
to the following scale, viz.—

3. d.
4 6 per diem
56
60
80
......12 0

If above 6 and under 10 years' service
10 20
20 25
25 —. 30
—• 30 Years' Service

40. If a Veterinary Surgeon shall be reduced, before
he has completed 6 years' service on lull-pay, he shall
be allowed only a temporary half-pay of 3s. 6d. a-day for
3 years, and be subject, of course, to a recall to em-
ployment during that period.
41. Every Veterinary Surgeon who may have served
upon full-pay for 25 years and upwards, or Rho may
have served for 20 years, provided he has passed 5
years abroad, shall have the right to retire upon half-
nay, at the rates assigned to those periods of service in
Article 39.

CHAPLAINS TO TILE FORCES.
42. Chaplains to the Forces appointed after the date
of this warrant, shall be entitled to half-pay agreeably
to the terms laid down in the following Articles.
43. A Chaplain to the Forces, in case of reduction
before he has completed six years' service, may be en-
titled to temporary half pay at five shillings a day, for
three years, and be subject, of course, to a recall to
employment during that period.
44. If a Chaplain to the Forces shall have served
more than six years previously to reduction, his half-pay
hall be regulated as follos%s

Rate of Half Pay,
per Diem.

Service on Full Pay.

s. d.
Under 15 Years 5 0
Above 15 and under Years 7
06
--- 20 ,30 10
:30 Years
45. A Chaplain to the n who a, ( o npleted
rc es ......
15 years' service on full-pay at the rate of reduction or
retirement upon half-pay, shall'. be liable to be recalled to
the service, or forfeit his half .pay if he declines, unless
a case of disability from ill he alas contracted in the ser-
vice be clearly established ; 'but after 15 years' service
on full-pay, he shall have an unqualified right to retire,
under the terms specified in the preceding Article.
46. Chaplains in garrison, or at certain stations, or
at military establishments having commissions from us,
shall have their retired pay rep,ulated by the warrants
for the government of those Cl itablistnents, or by the
rules established for civil super annuations, but not being
liable to sudden orders to set ve abroad, their claim to
retired or half-pay will in no el se be an unqualified right.
Given at Our Court, at vVindsor, this Ist day
of Oct., 1840, in the fourth year of Our reign
T• BT. B. NIACAULAY.

By her Majesty't comma:lel.