SECTION IX.
REGULATIONS RESPECTING THE PROBATI. ONARY COURSE OF NEWLY ADMITTED ASSISTANT SURGEONS.
1. The certificates of appointment of assistant surgeons, arriving from Europe, will be delivered to the medical board, and submitted by that board to the commander in chief, to be laid by him before government.
2. It being deemed of the highest importance, that the initiation into practice of assistant surgeons, on their admission on the establishment, should proceed without interruption under the tuition and guidance of experienced surgeons, as affording opportunities boil of appreciating, and properly directing, their skill and professional acquirements, they will be placed in the first instance, by order of government, with such of the Company's European corps, garrisons, or other fixed hospitals, as may in each case be recommended by the medical board.
3. Assistant surgeons, who have finished the first part of their probationary course, and have been reported qualified for the charge of acute cases of the principal diseases of India, may be posted to his Majesty's regiments by the commander in chief, there to finish the remaining part of their probationary course, according to the established rules:
4. The assistant surgeons will invariably continue thus
