The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-04-21

is required to establish the the
and make payment therefor practicable after
seeing this notice. and before the day appointed for the
of public sale of the lands embracing
the claimed otherwise such claim will be forfeited
RICHARD M. YOUNG,
Commissioner of the General Land Office.
War Department, March ae, Is4s.
Rules IN relation to claims prouided for By act of Con-
gress, approved Sd March, is49, entitled "Aa act to
propide for the payment of horses and other property
lost or destroyed an the military service Of the United
States
"A presented the Office OF the Third Auditor of the
Treasury Department, and each be subsaataed by
such evidence is hereinafter designated with respect
cases of the class under which it falls
First Class of Cases.
BY the first section of the law il is enacted:
'That any field staff, other officer, mounted mill
tay service Of the United States since tie 18th Of June
1872 who shall hereafter be in said SERVICE and has
gence on his part while in said service By the loss 81
horse ia battle, or by the loss of horse wounded in bat
ing wounded shall be abandoned by order his officer
and lost shall sustain damage by the loss OF any horse
gers Of the when board United States transport
vessel or because the United States failed supply
the order of his commanding officer embark and leave
him. In consequence of the United States failing sup
and from his horse and ordered to do duty on
foot station detached from his horse when the officer
horse turned Craze in the woods, praries
mons, because the United States failed, shall fail sup
q1snt thereof or o the loss Of necessary equpage in con
Of the loss of his horse aforesaid shall be al
dred dollars: provided, that il any payment ha. been
shall be made any aforesaid for the and risk
horse said payment shall be deducted
Of unless he satisfied shall satisfy the paymas the
show by proof that he was renowned in which case The
deduction shall only extend 10 the time he foot and
be made to any person on &C.
count of clothing TO which he was not entitled by law
such payment shall be deducted from the value of his
horse or Announcements"
To establish claim under this provision the claimant
must adduce the evidence OF the officer under whose
mand he served when the loss occurred if alive if
dead then of the surviving officer, describing the
property the value thereof the time Of entering
vice. the time and manner in which the loss happened
and whether not il was sustained without any fault
negligence on the claimants part The evidence should
also, in the claimant remouned after the loss
when he was remounted, how long he continued So and
explain whether the horse whcreon remounted had
been furnished by the United States been owned by
another mounted mitaman volunteer TO whom payment
for the and risk thereof for its forage, whilst in the
had been thus owned should the person and
mand which he belonged. And in every in
which the claim may extend equipage the several
ces Of which the same consisted and value oeach
should be specified.
Second Class Of Cases
The second section of the law enacts:
"That any person who has sustained shall sustain
damage by the capture destruction by enemy, by
the abandonment destruction by the order Of the
mandng general the commanding officer quarternas-
ter. Of any horse, me OK wagon, cart boat, Sleigh or
harness. while such properly in the military service Of
the United States either by impre. contract
cept where the risk which the property would
be exposed was agreed to be Incurred by the and
any person who has sustained or shall sustn damage by
the death abandonment and loss any such horse mue
while in the service aore in consequence Of the
failure the part the United furnish the same
with cient forage and any person who has lost or shall
lose has had shall have destroyed by unavoidable
cident any horse mule OK wagon cart, boat Sleigh or
shall be allowed and paid the value thereof at the time he
entered the service: provided shall appear that such loss
capture abandonment, destruction, DEATH without
any fault negligence the part of the oil the
property and while was actually employed in the service
orthe United States.'
To establish claim under this provision it will. in ad
ion to the testimony required under the head OF first class
cases. be necessary where the property
IN the service by contract mpressment produce the
testimony OF the officer agent OF the United States who
impressed contracted for the service of the property
Toned in such claim, and also OF the officer under whose
the same was employed at the time OF the cap
ure destruction, loss abandonment, declaring what
way properly taken into the service OF the United
States the value thereof whether the risk which
aud whether not. regarded horses. mules oxen he
ragged supply the same with sufficient forage in what
aimed without any fault or negligence on his part
The fifth section of the law enacts.
That in all instances where any minor has been shall
DO engaged military service United States and
shall be provided will, horse equipments, mill
AIRY announcements by his parent guardian and has died.
besn Or ps oaared
m the manner before mentioned said parent guardian
shall be allowed pay therefor, making satisfactory proof
in other and the further proof that he entitled
hereto by having furnished the same"
parent gardian Of deceased minor will therefore,
IN addition such testimony applicable 10 his claim is
previously descrbed have to furnish proof that he prov
led the minor with the property therein mentioned that
he minor died without paying Tor such properly and thai
the guardian, entitled to payment for by
ais having furnished the same.
The sixth section of the law enacts.
"That in all instances where any person. other than
MINOR has baen, shall be, engaged in the military
aforesaid and has been, shall be- provided with
horse equipments, with military accontrements, by
person. the owner thereof whohas rsked shall take
he risk OF such horse, equipments, military accoutre
himself, and the has been shall be lost
captured destroyed abandoncd ia the before
such shall be allowed therefor, on
making proof cases. and the further proof that
is entitled thereto by having furnished the same, and
having taken the risk on himself"
Besides the testimony in support of his claim herein be-
required every such thereof will have to prove
therein mentioned and took the risk thereof
he entitled to therefor, by having
furnished and taken the risk thereof hnse
md this proof should be contained IN deposition OF the
who had been provided by him with such horse,
military accoutreinents Il
Third Class Of Cases
The seventh section of the law
Tbat in all whe horses have been condemned by
of officers of their untness for services
OF the Government failing supply forage
such and their equpage shall be allowed and paid
or whenever facts shall be proven by legal and
actory evidence, whether oral written such
iemned horse and the equipage raed
of the army, whether any receipt therefor
ziven and Produced or not"
To establish claim under this provision the claimant
aduce the evidence of the witnesses under
he head OF cases. proving
property therein described was. while in the military