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


RICHARD NJ. YOUNG,
Commissioner Of the General Land Office
War Department, March 90, 1919.
Rules in relation 70 dams provided for by act of Con-
proUde for the payment Of horses and other property
lost or destroyed i" the military service 9th United
LII CLAIMS under the provisions of this act be
"A presented at the Office of the Third Auditor of the
Treasury Department and each be subsana,ed by
such evidence as is DESIGNATED with respect to
cases OF the class under which il falls.
First Class Of Cases
BY the first section of the law il is enacted:
'Tha any field staff, other officer, mounted mill
ary OF the United States the 18th June
tanned shall sustain damage without any fault negi.
gence his part while in said service, by the loss Of
e and which died OF shall die Of said wound or be-
lded shall be abandoned by order his officer
and lost shall sustain damage by the loss of horse
by death abandonment because Of the unavoidable dan
gers q he sea whsn s On hoaa United STATE,
portaon Tor the horse and the owner was compelled by
him. or in Of tie United States falling to np
ply sufficient forage or because the rider dismounted
foot station deac he'd from his horse when the officer
in the immediate command ordered or shall order the
horse turned Craze in the woods, prares, or com
mons because the United States failed shall fail to sup.
ply sufficient forage. and the loss shall be
quent thereof for the loss of necessary equpage
sequence of the loss Of his horse Aforesaid be al
lowed and paid the value thereof, exceed hun
shall be made 10 any one Aforesaid Tor the use and risk or
for forage after the death loss, or abandonment Of his
Of unless he satisfied or shall satisfy the paymaser at the
time he made or snail make the payment, thereafter
show by proof that he remounted in which the
deduction shall only extend the time he foot and
ss any or shall
count OF clothing to which he was not entitled by law,
horse Announcements"
To establish claim under this provision the claimant
mus adauce the evidence oil the oesr under whose corn
dead. then of the next surviving officer, describing the
vice, the time and in which the loss happened,
and whether not it sustained without any fault
also In the after the loss state
when he remounted, how long he continued so, and
been furnished by the United States by
another mounted mitaman or volunteer TO whom payment
possession Of the claimant may have been and if
had been thus owned should the person and
which the claim extend to equpage the several
Giles Of which the same consisted and value ofeach
Second Class Of Gases.
The second section Of the law enacs:
That any person who has sustained or shall sustain
The abandonment or by the order Of ne ny
manding general the commanding officer, quartermas-
harness, While such properly was in the military service Of
the United States either by impressment contract
be exposed agreed be by the owner and
person who has sustained shall sustain damage by
the death abandonment and loss of any horse mule
OK, while in the aforesaid consequence
failure the of the United States furnish the
lose, has had shall have destroyed by unavoidable
ciden any horse, mule wagon cart, boat, Sleigh
harness. while such property in the aforesaid,
shall be allowed and paid the value thereof the time he
entered the service provided shall appear that such loss
any fault or negligence on the part of the OF the
of the United States"
To establish claim under this provision it will in ad.
don to the testimony required under the head of first class
of be necessary in where the property
in the service by contract impessment, produce the
impressed contracted for the service of the property
toned in such claim, and also OF the officer under whose
ture destruction, loss abandonment, declaring in what
the property taken into the of the United
would be exposed agreed be incurred by owner
and whether or not, regarded horses mules, he
manner the loss whether or not Il was sus
tanned without any fault negligence on his part.
The fifth section of the law enacts:
sThat in all instances any minor has been or shall
be engaged in the military service OF the United States and
shall be provided with horse equp ments, mill
die without paying for said properly the same
has been shall be lost captured destroyed abandoned
in the manner before mentioned said parent or guardian
shall be allowed therefor making satisfactory proof
cases. and the further proof that he entitled
thereto, by having furnished the same"
parent or gardian of deceased minor will therefore,
in addition to such testimony applicable to his claim is
previously described have to furnish proof that he prov
ded the minor with the property therein mentioned that
the minor died without paying for such properly and that
he, the parent guardian, entitled for il by
his having furnished the
The sixth section of the law enac,.
"Thnt in all instances where any person, other than
minor, has bsen, shall be- engaged in the military
vice aforesaid, and has been, shall be, provided with
horse equipments, with military accoutfements by
any person. the thereof risked shall take
the risk OF such horse, equipments military accoutre
menss on himself, and the has been shall be- lost,
captured destroyed abandoned, in the manner before
mentioned suen shall be allowed pay therefor on
making proof In other and the further proof that
he Is entitled thereto by having furnished the same and
having taken the risk on himself"
Besides the testimony support OF his claim herein be-
fore required every such thereof will have to prove
that he did provide the horse, equipments, or military
mentioned, and took the risk thereof
himself and he entitled pay therefor, by having
furnished the same and taken the risk thereof hmsel
and hi, proof should be contained position of the
person who had provided by him with such horse
equipments, military acooutremenn
Third Class Of CaHs.
The seventh section OF the law snaotsi
'Thal in where horses have been condemned by
board officers account Of their nntncss service
in OF the Government falling supply forage
all such and their equpage shall be allowed paid
for the facts shall be proven by legal
factory evidence, whether oral written that such con.
dcmned horse aud the equipags tursed quar-
termaser OF the army, whether receipt therefor
given nd produced or noto