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where the employment of troops has once been sanctioned, the
men may be changed without reference to the Plague Commis-
sioner or Government. Arrangements should be made for
the relieving detachment to be inoculated before departure.
4. The following procedure should be adopted in obtain-
ing the services of Military officers for plague duty:-
I. A Local Government or Administration requiring an
officer or officers for plague duty will apply to the Government
of India, in the Home Department, detailing the number of
officers required, and where and when they should be ordered
to join.
II. The Government of India will then address the
Adjutant-General in India, who will issue instructions under
the orders of the Commander-in-Chief to one or more Com-
mands to supply the officers wanted, the Government of India
being at the same time informed of the instructions issued.
III. On learning from the Adjutant-General's Department
from what Command the officers asked for will be supplied,
the Government of India will inform the Local Government
or Administration concerned, and all further correspondence
in reference to the individual officers detailed by Commands,
or their replacement, should they for any reason revert to
Military duty, will be conducted between the Local Gov-
ernment or Administration and the Lieutenant-General
Commanding.
IV. When the officers selected have joined their appoint-
ments, the Lieutenant-General Commanding will communicate
their names to the Adjutant-General's Department, and their
services will then be placed at the disposal of the Government
of India.
V. When an officer's services are no longer required, he
should be directed by the Local Government or Administra-
tion to rejoin his regiment, the Lieutenant-General Com-
manding and the Government of India being at the same time
informed, and the latter will then replace the officer at the
Commander-in-Chief's disposal.
(G.O., No. 718-P., dated 26th July 1898; P.C. No. 2?, dated 29th September 1898 
P.C. No. \8/991\, dated 25th October 1898; P.C. No. 605, dated 3rd March 1899.)
5. No officers of the Indian Medical Service or the Royal
Army Medical Corps lent for plague duty should be permitted
to revert to Military duty without the previous sanction of
the Government of India.
(G.O., No. 1139, Public, dated 9th October 1899.)
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