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MEDICAL DEPARTMENT 265 requirements of the service will permit they will have the choice of the Presi- dency in India to which they shall be appointed according to the order of merit in which they stand on the list resulting from such examination All Assistant-Surgeons are required to subscribe to the military or medical and medical retiring funds at the Presidencies to which they may be respectively appointed and to the Military Orphan Society also if appointed to Bengal All Assistant-Surgeons who shall neglect or refuse to proceed to India under the orders of the Court of Directors within three months from the date of their appointments will be considered as having forfeited them unless special circum- stances shall justify departure from this regulation copy of these Regulations and any further information may be obtained on application to the Secretary of the Military Department East India House The Examinations will take place in the nths of January and July in each year and due notice will be given by public advertisement of the days appointed and of the probable number of Candidates to be selected VIII REGULATIONS OF THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY Admiralty Somerset House The Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty are pleased to direct that the following Regulations relative to the Examination of Can- didates for the Appointment of Assistant-Surgeon in the Royal Navy shall in future be adopted That Candidate for entry into the Royal Navy shall make written applica- tion to that effect addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty Somerset House on the receipt of which application he will be furnished with the Regulations and printed form to be filled up by him to show if he possesses the required qualifications As vacancies occur the number of Candidates required will be ordered to attend at the Admiralty Office bringing with them the requisite Certificates showing that they are fully qualified by Age Professional Ability &c when they will be examined by Board of Medical Officers to be named by their Lordships Such Candidates as shall have been found in all respects competent for the Appointment of Assistant Surgeon will be forthwith nominated to one of the Naval Hospitals at Home to await Appointments to any of Her Majesty's Ships or should their services not be immediately required their names will be duly registered for early Appointments as Vacancies may occur No person will be admitted as an Assistant-Surgeon in the Royal Navy who shall not produce certificate of being registered under the Medical Act and diploma from one of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of England Edinburgh or Dublin from the faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow from Trinity College Dublin or from other Corporate Body legally entitled to grant diploma in Surgery nor as Surgeon unless he shall produce certificate from one of the said Colleges Faculty or Corporate Body founded on an examination to be