The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1837-02-22

HI provided for by an act of Congress passed 18th
January, 1887, entitled " An act to provide for the
payment Of horses and other property lost or de.
stroyed the military ser ice Of the United Staies,'
prescribed in pursuance Of the 4ih 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-
sion Of Congress, and each must be substantiaed by
such evidence as is hereinafter designated, with re-
spect to cases of the class under which It falls.
FIRST CLASS OF CASES.
BY the first section of the law it is enacted:
THAT any field or staff or other officer, mounted
militiaman volunteer, ranger orcavalry, engaged in
the military service Of the United States since the
18th Of June, 1912, who shall hereafter be IN SAID
service, and has sustained or shall sustain damage,
without any fault negligence on his part while IN
said service by the loss OF horse IN battle, or by the
loss ofa 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
OF shall sustain damage by the loss OF any horse by
DEATH abandonment, in consequence OF the United
States failing TO supply sufficient forage, or because
the rider was dismOunted and separated from his
horse or when the officer IN the immediate command
ordered or shall order the horse turned out TO Craze
in the woods pralres or commons, because the Uni-
ted States failed or shall fail to supply sufficient for
age and the loss was shall be consequent thereof
or for the loss necessary equpage in consequence
of the loss of his horse, Aforesaid, shall be allowed
and paid the value thereof: PrOuided That if any
payment has been shall be made to any afore
said for the use and risk for forage after the DEATH
loss or abandonment of his horse, said payment shall
be deducted from the value thereof unless he has
satisfied, shall satisfy, the paymaser at the time
he made or shall make the payment, thereafter
show by proof that he remounted, in which case
the deduction shall only extend TO the time he on
foot: Ind procided also, If any payment shall have
BEEN shall hereafter be, made to any person above
mentioned, account of clothing to which he was
not entitled by law, such payment shall be deducted
from the value OF his horse or 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 surviving
officer; describing the property, the value thereof
the time and manner in which the loss happened ]
and whether or not 1t was sustained without any
fault or negligence on the claimants part. The ey
dencG should also, IN case the claimant was remOun
ed after the loss, state when he was remounsd how
long he continued so, and explain whether the horse
wherson he remoun,ed had not been furnished
! by the United States or had been owned by another
mounted mllitlaman or volunteer, 20 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, aud the command to which he belonged.
| And IN every instance IN which the claim may ex-
| 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 rdraughted militiaman, furnish
ed or shall furnish himself with arms and military ac
coutrements, and sustained or shall sustain damage
| by the capture, or destruction of the same, without
any fault or negligence on his part, who lost or
shall lose the same by reason OF his being wounded
IN the service, shall be allowed and paid the value
/ thereof"
Each claim under tins provision must be establish
ed by the evidence of the officer who commanded the
claimant when the loss happened, if alive; or, if
dead, then OF the next surviving officer describing
the several articles lost tho value of EACH whether or
not the same were furnished by the claimant in what
way and when the loss occurred, and whether or
not it was sustained without any faut negligence
on his part.
THIRD CLASS OF CASES.
The third section of the law enacts:
- That any person who sustained or shall sustain
damage by the loss, capture, destruction, by an
enemy, or 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 if shall appear
that such loss, capture or destruction without
any such fault negligence sustained shall sustain
damage by the death abandonment and loss of
any such horse mule, OK, while in the service
aforesaid in consequence of the failure the part
of the United States, to furnish the same with suiic-
len, forage shall be allowed and paid the value there.
Of"
To establish claim under this provision il will be
necessary TO produce the testimony of the officer
agent of the United States WHO impressed or con-
ractcd for the service of the property mentioned in
such claim, ard also of the officer under whose i'm
mediate command the employed at the time
of capture, destruction loss Abandonment; de-
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service of the United States, the value thereof wheth
er not the risk TO which it would be exposed
agreed TO be incurred by the owner, whether or not
as regarded horses, mules, or oxen, he engaged TO
supply the with sufficient forage, in what man
ner the loss happened, and whether or not il was
sustained without any fault or negligence OH his part
The sixth section of the law enacts
THAT in all instances where any minor has been
or shall be engaged in the military service of the Uni
ted States and was, or shall be provided with a
horse or equipments, with military acceutrements
by his parent guardian, and has died, shall die
without paying for said property, and the same has
been, or shall be lost, captured, destroyed, aban
doned in the before mentioned, said 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 of deceased minor will,
therefor in addition TO such testimony applicable to
his claim as Is previously described, have TO furnish
proof that he provided the minor with the properly
therein mentioned; that the minor died without pay
ing for such property; and that he, the parent or
guardian is entitled to payment for it, by his having
furnished the same
The seventh section of the law enacts
Tha, in all instances w here any person. other than
minor, has been shall be engaged in the military
service aforesaid, * has been or shall he provided
with horse or equipments, or with military accou-
tremenis. by any person, the thereof who has
rsked or shall take the risk of such horse equip
ments military accoutrements himself and
the same has been shall be lost captured DESTROY