The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1837-03-08

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January, 1887, entitled An act to provide for the
payment Of horses and other property lost or de.
stroyed the military service of the United States'
prescribed in pursuance Of the 4th section of the said
act.
All claims under the provisions of this act must be
presented at the Office of the Third Auditor Of the
Treasury Department before the end of the next ses-
won of Congress, and each must be substantated by
such evidence as is hereinafter designated, with re-
spect to cases Of the class under which It falls
FIRsr CLASS OF CASES.
BY the first section OF the law il is enacted
That any field, or staff or other officer, mounted
volunteer, ranger cavalry engaged in
tho military service of the United States since the
18th of June, 1872 or who shall hereafter be in said
service, and has sustained shall sustain damage,
without any fault negligence on his part while in
said service, by the loss OF horse in battle by the
loss Of horse wounded in battle and which has died
or shall die, Of said wound being SO wounded,
shall be abandoned by order Of his officer, and lost
oil shall sustain damage by the loss Of any horse by
DEATH or Abandonment in consequence Of the United
States failing 10 supply sufficient forage, or because
the rider was dismouned and separated from his
horse or when the officer in the immediate command
ordered, shall order the horse turned out TO Craze
in the woods, prniries commons because the Uni
ted States faod or shall fail to supply sufficient for
age, and the loss shall be consequent thereof
for the loss of necessary equpage in consequence
of the loss OF his horse, Aforesaid shall be allowed
and paid the value thereof: PrOrided, That if any
payment has been shall be made TO any one afore-
said for the and risk for forage after the DEATH
loss abandonment Of his horse, said payment shall
be deducted from the value thereof, unless he has
satisfied shall satisfy, the paymaster, at the time
he made or shall make the payment, thereafter
show by proof that he was remounted, in which case
the deduction shall only extend to the tune he
foot dnd proUtded also If any payment shall have
hall hero hr ms do In m ahn
mentioned, on account of clothing, to which he was
not entitled by law, such payment shall be deducted
from the value of his horse accoutrements."
To establish a claim under this provision, the
claimant must adduce the evidence OF the officer un-
der whose command he served when the loss occurr-
ed, if alive; or if dead, then Of the next surviving
officer; describing the property, the value thereof
the time and manner in which the loss happened,
and whether or not it was sustained without any
fault or negligence on the claimants part The evil
dence should also, in the claimant was remount-
ed after the loss, state when he remountsd how
long he continued so, and explain whether the horse
wherson he remouned had not been furnished
by the United States or had been owned by another
mounted militiaman volunteer, 10 whom payment
for the use and risk thereof for its forage whilst
in the possession of the claimant, may have been
made and ifit had been thus owned should name
the person, and the command to which he belonged.
And in every instance in which the claim may OK
tend to equipage the several articles of which the
same consisted, and the separate value of each
should be specified
SECOND CLASS OBJ CASES.
The second section of the law enacts:
THAT any person who, in the said military ser
vice. a volunteer or draughted mitaman, furnish
ed shall furnish himself with and military
coutrements, and sustained or shall sustain damage
by the capture destruction of the same, without
any fault or negligence on his part, who lost or
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IN the service, shall be allowed and paid the value
thereof"
Each claim under this provision must be establish
ed by the evidence ofthe officer who commanded the
claimant when the loss happened, if alive; or, If
dead, thon of the next surviving officer describing
the several articles lost tho value of each whether
not the were furnished by the claimant in what
way, and when the loss occurred, and whether or
not it was sustained without any auIt negligence
on his part.
THIRD CLASS or CASES.
The third section of the law enacts
That any person who sustained or shall sustain
damage by the loss, capture, or destruction, by an
enemy, or Of any horse, mule, or wagon, cart boat
sleigh or harness, while such property was in the
military service Of the United States, either by i'm
pressn.ent or contract, except in cases where the
risk to which the property would be exposed was a.
greed TO be incurred by the owner, ift shall appear
that such loss, capture or destruction without
any such fault negligence. sustained shall sustain
damage by the death or abandonment and loss of
any such horse mule, or OK, whs in the service
aforesaid in consequence of the failure, on the part
sf the United States furnish the same with sutfic
tent forage shall be allowed and paid the value there
of
To establish claim under this provision, il will be
necessary 10 produce the testimony Of the ecer or
agent Of the United States who impressed or CON
tracted for the service OF the property mentioned in
sash claim, and also Of the officer under whose IN
mediate command the same was employed at the time
of capture, destruction, loss, or abandonment; de-
clarng in what way the property taken into the
service of the United States, the value thereof wheih
er or not the risk to which it would be exposed was
agreed to be incurred by the owner whether or not
as regarded horses, mules, or oxen, he engaged TO
supply the same with suffcient forage in what man
ner the loss happened and whether OF not il was
sustained without any fault or negligence on his part.
The SIXTH section Of the law enaets:
That in all instances where any minor ha, been
or shall be engaged in the military service Of the Uni
ted States. and was, or shall be provided with 4
horse or equipments or with military accourelnents
by his parent guardian, and has died, shall die
withoulpaying for said property, and the same has
been, ofshall be lost captured, destroyed, or absn-
doned in the manner before mentioned .aid parent or
guardian shall be allowed pay therefor. on making
satisfactory proof in other cases. and the further
proof that he is entitled thereto by having furnished
the same"
A parent or guardian ofa deceased minor. will,
therefor in addition to such testimony applicable to
has claim Is previously described. have 10 furnish
proof tha, he provided the minor with the property
herein mentioned; that the minor died without paw
ns for such properly; and that he. the parent or
guardian, Is entitled to payment for il, BY bis having
furnished the same.
The seventh section Of the law enses;
That in all instances where any person. other than
miner las been or shall be engaged in the military
ervoe aforesaid, a has been, or shall be provided
With horse or equipments, or with military accou.
rements by any person. the owner thereof who ba.
isked, shall take the risk Of such horse. equip
nens. or military accoutrements o. himself, and
u. or abandoned in the manner before mentioned
uch owner shall be allowed pay therefor on making
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