The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-04-18

Otherwise Claim WIN Dc
RICHARD M YOUNG,
Commissioner OF the General Land Once
Mar 4-Iawl3w
War Department, March 40, Is4e.
Rules relation claims provided for By act of Con-
gress approved Sd Mareh, ls49, entitled "An act TO
prouide for The payment of horses and other property
lost or destroyed IN the military service of the United
States"
LII CLAIMS under the provisions of this act must be
"A presented the office of the Third Auditor of the
Treasury Department and each be substa6tiaed by
such evidence hereinafter designated with respect
cases OF the class under which it falls.
FIRST Glass Of Cases.
BY the first section of the law il is enacted:
THAT any field. or staff, other officer. mounted mill
!aman yolun,ssr ranger or cavalry engaged IL the mill
1872 who shall hereafter be in said SERVICE and has
tanned or shall sustain damage without any fault or nsg
horse in bate or by the loss of horse wounded in bat
tie, and which has died. shall die Of said wound, be-
ing wounded shall be abandoned by order his officer
and lost shall sustain damage by the loss of any horse
by death or abandonment because OF the unavoidable dan
gers OF the sea when on board United States transport
vessel because the United States failed to supply
the order of his commanding officer to embark and leave
him. or in consequence OF United States failing to sup
and separated from his horse and ordered do duty
foot station detached from his horse when the ecer
in the immediate command ordered shall order the
horse turned out to Craze IN the woods praes or com
mons because the United States failed, shall fail sup
ply sufficient forage, and the loss shall be
qIen thereof Tor the loss of eqnpage in
sequence Of the loss of his horse aforesaid shall be al
lowed VHiue Thereon, 10 exceed TWO hun
dred dollars provided, that if any payment has been
shall be made to my aforesaid for the use and risk
horse payment shall be deducted from the value
of. unless he satisfied shall satisfy the paymaster the
show by proof he remounted which case The
deduction shall only extend to the time he oot and
hereafter be made any person on
of clothing, which he entitled by law
such payment shall be deducted from the value of his
horse or Announcements"
To establish claim under this provision the claimant
mand he served when the loss occurred if alive Or if
dead, then of the next surviving officer, describing the
vice, the time and in which the loss hsppened
and whether or not il was sustained without any fault
Also the claimant emouned after the loss state
when he was rernonhted, how long he connu, So and
been furnished by the United tares owned by
another mounted mlilianan volunteer to whom payment
possession Of the claimant, may have been made and il
had been thus owned should the and the
which the claim may extend to equipage the several
Giles Of which the consisted and value oeach
should be specified.
Second Glass Of Cases.
The second section of the law enacts;
"That any person who has sustained shall sustain
damage by the capture or destruction by enemy, by
nandng general, the commanding officer, quarermas
ter, OF any horse mule, wagon cart, boat, se Sh,
United sIates, either by npre s,nenr or contract ex-
cept in where the risk to which the properly would
be exposed agreed 10 be inc 1rred by the
any person who has sustained shall sustain damage by
the death abandonment and loss of such horse, mule,
while in the service aore said in
failure on the of the United States furnish the
With sufficient forage and any has lost shall
ose has had shall have destroyed by voiabe
ciden any horse, mule. wagon cart, boat, Sleigh
shall be allowed and paid the value thereof al the time he
entered the service provided it shall appear that ch loss
c. p,ure aband onmea desIucon or death was without
any fault Or negligence on tue par, of the owner OF the
properly and while 4 was actually mpoyed in the
of the United States"
To TAIL sh ri, i'm nd.r
dop to the testimony required under the head first
OF be necessary in where The property
testimony the officer agent OF The United States who
or contracted for the service of the property
toned In such caim and also OF the officer under whose
command the same was employed the time OF the cap
ture destruction loss, or abandonment, declaring in what
way the properly taken into the the United
states, the value thereof whether the risk to which IL
would be exposed was aseed to be incurred by the
gagged TO supply the same with sufficient forage in what
tanned without any fault negligence his part.
The filth section of the law
That in all instances where minor has been shall
be engaged in the military service OF tue United States
was or shall be provided with horse equipments, nl-
tary announcements by his guardian and died.
or shall die without paying for said property and the
has been or shall be lost captured destroyed abandoned
In the manner before mentioned said parent guardian
shall be allowed pay therefor making satisfactory proof
as in other and the further proof that entitled
thereto, by having furnished the same"
parent or gardan of deceased minor will therefore,
in addition to such testimony applicable to his claim
previously described have TO urnIsh proof that he prov
ded the minor with the property therein mentioned, that
he the parent guardian, entitled payment for i, by
his having furnished the same
The sixth section of the law enac,s:
'That in all instances where any person. other than
minor has bsen or shall be- engaged in the military
vice Aforesaid and has been shall be, provided With
person. the thereof whohas risked shalt take
the risk OF such horse equipments or military aeco9e-
captured, destroyed or abandoned, ia the before
mentioned snch owner shall be allowed pay theeio on