The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-05-10

Rules relation to dams prouided for By act Of Con-
gres,, approved Sd March tS49, entitled an act 10
Proolde for The paymeas Of horses and otter property
lost or destroyed IN the MILITARY Seruice Of the United
States"
A LII CLAIMS under the provisions of This must be
Treasury Department each be substaatia,ed by
such evidence hereinafter designated, with respect to
cases OF the class under which il falls.
FIRST Glass Of Cases
BY the first section of the law il is enacted.
THAT any field, staff, other officer, mounted mill
tlanan yo'nneeL fange or cavalry engaged IN the mill
1872 who shall hereafter be in said service, and has
gence his part while in said service, by the loss OF
horse In baue or by the loss OF horse wounded IN bat
ing wounded shall be abandoned by order OF his officer
and lost shall sustain damage by the loss OF any horse
gers the when board United States transport
vessel because the United States failed to supply trans
the order of his commanding officer embark and leave
him. consequence of the United States failing sup
and separated from his horse and ordered do duty
foot station detached from his horse when the officer
horse turned Craze in the woods, pairies,
mons because the United States failed, shall fail sup
ply sufficient forage and the loss shall be
of the loss Of his horse as Aforesaid shall he al
lowed and paid the value thereof exceed hun
dred dollars: provided that II any payment has been OF
m De mace M d, @ or OK Or
horse, said payment shall be deducted from the value there
time he made or shall make tho payment, or thereafter
show by proof that he was renouned in which case the
deduction shall only extend the time and
provided. also if any payment shall been shall
hereafter be made to any person aforementioned on ac
of clothing, to which he not entitled by law,
such payment shall be deducted from the value of his
horse Announcements"
To establish claim under this provision the claimant
adduce the evidence OF the officer under whose
mand he served when the loss occurred, if alive; if
dead then of the next surviving officer describing the
property the thereof the time OF entering the
vice, the time and manner in which the loss happened,
and whether OF not it sustained without any
evidence should
ALSO the claimant remouned aer the loss state
when he remouLted, how long he continued so, and
explain whether wherein remoun,ed had
moi been furnished by the United States obeen owned by
another mounted mitanan volunteer whom payment
for the and risk thereof for its forage, whilst in the
possession Of the claimant may have been made and If
had been thus owned should name the person and the
mand to which he belonged And in every instance in
which the claim may extend to cqnipage the several art
Giles OF which the same consisted and value OF each,
should be specified.
Second Class Of Cases
The second section of the law
"That any person who has sustained or shall sustain
damage by the capture destruction by enemy by
the abandonment destruction by the order OF the
mandipg general the commanding officer quartermas
ter oil any hore, mule, OK, wagon cart boat se'ah, or
harness, while such properly in the military service OF
cept where the risk which the property would
be exposed agreed be Incurred by the and
who has sustained shall sust lin damage by
the death abandonment and loss OF such horse mua
while in the service aforesaid in Of the
with sufficient forage and who has lost shall
lose, has had shall have destroyed by unavoidable
hall h a,nned ana hall he wan ha1eof a, tho ,ine h
entered the sevice provided it shall appear that such loss
capture, abandonment, destruction or death, was without
any lault or negligence on the part OF the owner oil the
property, and while il actually oyed IN the
of the United States"
To establish claim under this provision it will, in ad
don timony required under the head of first class
OF be necessary In where The property lost was
in the service by contract or imPessmen to produce the
testimony OF the officer OF the United States who
impressed contracted for the service of the property
toned in such clan and also oil the officer under whose
nand hp aue wa we'd "A le m
destruction, loss abandonment, declaring in what
way the property taken into the service oil the United
States the value thereof whether risk to which it
would be exposed agreed to be incurred by the
and whether or not as regarded horses mules oxen he
gagged supply the with sufficient forage, in what
the loss happened and whether or not II was sus
tanned without any lault or negligence on his part
The fifth section Of the law enacts
That all instances where any has been or shall
be engaged in the military service OF the United States and
tay accouremen by his parent or GUARDIAN and has died
shall die without paying for said property and the
in the before mentioned said parent guardian
shall be allowed pay therefor on making satisfactory proof
as IN other cases, and the further proof that he enlied
thereto, by having furnished The same"
parent gardian OF deceased minor will therefore,
previously described, furnish proof that he provi
ded the minor with the property therein mentioned that
he, parent guardian entitled payment for i, by
his having urpished the same.
The sixth section Of the law
"rbat in all instances where any person. other than a
aforesaid. and has been, shall be, provided with
horse equipments, with military by
person, the thereof who has rsked shall take
the risk OF such horse, equipments military accoutre
ments on himself, and the has been shall be lost
captured, destroyed abandoned, in the before
mentioned, such shall be allowed pay therefor on
making proof rs IN other and the further proof that
he entitled thereto by having furnished the and
having taken the risk on HIMSELF
Besides the testimony in support of his claim herein be-
lore required such thereof Will have
that he did provide the horse, equipments or military &C
therein mentioned and took the risk thereof
himself and that he entitled pay therefor, by having
and this proof should be contained in deposition of the
equipments, military accouirements
Third Class Of. Gases.
The seventh section OF the law cnacts,
THAT in all wher horses have been condemned by
in onsequencc Government failing supply forage
all such horses and their equpsge shall be allowed paid
tor the shall be proven by legal and
factory evidence, whether oral written,
demned horse and the equipage turaed quar-
of the army whether any receipt therefor
given and produced or not"
To establish "A claim under this provision the claimant
adducs evidence of the mentioned under
the head first eass OF satisfactorily proving that the
property therein described while in the military SER
United States, condemned by board OF officers
Of their being rendered unfit for service in con-
sequence the Government failing supply forage, and