The Arkansas advocate., 1837-03-03
''' 2 NO. 4S.
MAR DsFAhrnrEar
January 25, lS37.

E. ss J ih-o IN RELATION re c ni n,o. z Sided for by an act of Congress passed ie,b January lSS1 entitled "An act to provide forbe pay ment o horses and other property lost or des.rovad m the military service Of the United states,o preserhed 1 ID pursuance of the 4ih section of the said act
 Ast elalms under the provisions of ihs act must bs presented at the office ct the Third Auditor of tba fe3safy Department before the end of tho next sc,. sloh o congress, and each must be subsanliated b- saeh e'iaence as IS hsreaaer designated with respect 1 10 cases oi the class under which it falls.
 i FIRST CLASS OF CASES
 oY the hrst section ot the law 1t IS enacted.
 'l hat any field, or staif or other oilcers ,a,,..l mlihaman volahteer or cavalry, engaged in the milf; lafy service 9! ths United States since taa Is,I x. J4ne lsl2 or who shall hereafter be in said service ahe nus sustained or shall sustain damage whau. any an or negligence on his part while in said service by the loss of horse ill baIe or by the loss of bors. wounded III battle and which has died or shall ea If sa'a wound, or beng 30 wounded shall be abandoned by order ot his officer, and ost or shall sustain au age by the loss ofany horse by death or abandonmen h consequence of the United States faina to sunnlv sufficient forage, because the rider was d,s,o,1nr and separated rom bis horse and ordered to do duty on foot ai station detached from his horse or when the offleer ID the immediate command ordered. or small ofcer the horse turned out o qraze in the woods pafles, or commons, because the United States aiIed or shall ia, to supply sufficient torage and the loss was CT snail be consequent thereof, or for the loss of necessary egnpat. n consequence of the less Of ts horse, as aforesaid, shall be allowed and paid the val ue thereof Propiaea, That If any payment las been CT shall be made ta any aforesaid for the use and risk, or tor forage after the dea oss or abandonment ot his horse, sad payment shall be deducted from the value thereof unless e satisfied, or shall satisfy tho paymaster, at the time he made shall make the pay- nent or thereafter show by proof that Ie was remonnt- cd, n which ease the deduction shall only extend to the time he was oil foot: .9ad prou:ded e.so if any payment shall have been, or shall hereafter be, made 10 any person above mentioned, on account of cloh- lng o which he vas not entitled by law, such pay ment shall be deducted from the value of his horse or accoutrements.o
 10 establish claim under this provision, ihe claim. ant must adduce the evidence of the officer under whose command he served when tbe loss oecnrred # ahse; or, If dead, then of the surviving officer describing the property, the value thereof the time and manner m Inch the loss happened, and whether or moi was sustained without any fault or negligence on the claimants part. The evidence should also in cage The claimant was emounted after the loss state when he was ren1ounied how long he continued so and ex- paln whether the horse whereon he was rcnlountcd had not been furnished by the United States or been owned by another mounted mitiaman or volunteer to whom payment for tie and risk thereof or for its forage, whilst ln the possession of the claimant may have been made; and if il had been thus owned should name the person, and the command 10 which ho belonged. And in every instance in which tho
 
 which the same consisted, and the separate value of each, should be specified.
 SECOND CLASS OF CASTS.
 The second section of tie law enacs
 hat any person who, in the said military service as volunteer or draughed miliaman, furnished or shall furnish himself with arms and military accontro- ments, and sustained shall sustain damage by ths capture destruction of the same, without any fault or negligence on his part, who lost shall lose the some by reason of his being wound in the service, shall be allowed and paid the value thereof"
 Each claim under this provision must be establish cd by the evidence of the officer who commanded the claimant when the loss happened if aliye or, If dead, then Of the next surviving officers describing the era articles lost. the value of eaeh, whether tho same were furnished by the claimant in what way, and when the loss occurred, and whether not 1t sustained without any fault or negligence on his part
 THIRD CLASS OF CASES
 The hird section of the law enacss:
 That any person who sustained or shall sustain damage by the loss, capture, destruction, by an en- emy, of any horse, mule, wagon, cart, boat, sleigh CT harness, while such property in the military service of the united States, either by npressmen or contract, except Tn where the risk which the property would be exposed agreed to be incurred by the owner, if shall appear that such loss capture or destruction was without any fault negligence the part of the owner; and any person, who without any such fault negligence sustained or shall sustain damage by the death or abandonment and loss of any such horse, mule, or which nhe service aoresnid in consequence of the failure, the part of the Unit ed States, to furnish the with sufficient forage shall be allowed and paid the value thereof.'
 To establish claim under this provision, if will bo necessary produce the testimony of the officer or agent of the United States who impressed contract- cd for the service of the property mentioned in such clam, and also of the officer under whose immediate command the same was employed at the time of cap- eture desfruc.ion loss. abandonment; declaring in what way the property taken into the service of the United States, the value thereof whether or not fhe Iiak which would he exnnsed was nnreed