The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-04-20
War Department., March 20, I8A0.

Commissioner of the General Land Office
Mar 4-Iawl3w
War Department, March 30, Isa8.
Rules relation 10 CLAIMS provided for by of Con-
gress, approved Sd March, iS49 entitled "Aa act 10
Rr9'e for the pgg%i.t Of horses and OTTER n p1pry
States"
LII CLAIMS under the provisions of this must be
IA presented at the Office OF the Third Auditor of the
Treasury Department and each be subsantated by
such evidence er designated respect 10
cases OF the class under which II falls.
FIRST Class Of Cases.
BY the frs, section of the law il is enacted:
''That any field, staff, other officer. mounted mill
,aaa yolnnse r., ranget or cavalry ln the mill
1872 who shall hereafter be in said SERVICE and
tanned or shall sustain damage without any aat or neg
horse in battle or by the loss OF horse wounded in bat
ing ded shall be abandoned by order officer
and lost shall sustain damage by the loss of any
gers Of the sea when on board United Sta rnnsnor
vessel because the United States failed supply
poalon for the horse and the owner was Compelled by
the oder of his officer TO embark and leave
him. in consequence Of the United States falling sup
ply sufficient forage or because the rider was dsmounred
and separated his horse ordered to do duty on
foot station detached from his horse when Inc officer
in the I'm mediate command ordered or shall order the
horse turned Craze in the woods, praes,
mons because the United States failed shall fail to sup.
ply sufficient forage and the loss was or shall be cone.
quen thereof Tor the loss of necessary equ page in con
sequence of the loss of his horse aforesaid, shall be al
dred dollars provided, that if any payment has been
shall be made to any one aforesaid for the and risk
for forage after the DEATH loss, abandonment his
horse, said payment shall be deducted from
of, unless he satisfied shall satisfy the paymaser
time he made shall the payment or thereafter
show by proof that he remounted, which
deduction shall only extend the foot and
hereafter ba any person above on ac-
count of clothing, which he was entitled by law,
snch payment shall be deducted from the value of his
horse Announcements"
To establish claim under this provision the claimant
must adduce the evidence OF the officer under whose
he served when the loss occurred, alive:
dead, then o! the Surviving officer, describing the
property, the value thereof the time entering the
vice, the and in which the loss HAPPENED
and whether not il sustained without any fault
rs iigence the claimants part The evidence should
also the claimant remounted after loss state
when he remounted how long he continued so, and
explain whether the horse whereon he emouned had
been furnished by the United States been owned by
another mounted militaman volunteer whom payment
for the and risk thereof for Its forage whilst in the
possession Of the claimant have been made and if it
had been thus owned should the person and the
mand TO VIII CHI he belonged. And in every instance in
which the claim may extend equipage, the several at
ces of which the consisted and value ofeach
should be specified
Second Class Of Cases.
The second section of the law enacts.
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
manding general, the commanding officer, quarermas
ter, OF any horse, mule OK wagon cart boat sleigh, or
harness. white such property was in the military service of
the United States, either by impre contract
IN cases where .ne rik which he property would
person who has sustained shall sustain damage by
the death abandonment such horse
while in the service in consequence of the
failure the part of the United Sta furnish
lose had Shall have destroyed by unavoidable &C
ciden any horse, mule wagon, cart boat, sleigh, or
shall be allowed and paid the value thereof at the time he
entered the sevice provided shall appear that such
any fault negligence the part of owner the
properly and while was actually employed in the service
of the United States"
To establish claim under this provision it WILL in ad-
dtion the emony required under the head of first
in the service by contract mpressmen produce the
testimony OF the officer agent OF the United States who
toned such claim, and also OF the officer under whose
command the same was ployed at the time OF the cap
way properly taken into of the United
S,aes the value thereof whether the risk which
whether regarded horses mules, oxen.
gagged to supply the same with sufficient forage in what
tanned without any fault or negligence on his part.
The fifth section of the law
THAT in all instances where minor has been shall
be engaged in the military service fhe United and
shall be provided with horse equipments mill
tay by his and has died.
shall die without paying for said property and the
ha been lost captured destroyed or abandoned
in before mentioned, said parent guardian
shall be allowed pay therefor on making satisfactory proof
and the further proof that eniitled
thereto, by having furnished the same"
parent gariian of deceased minor will therefore,
in addition such testimony applicable his
previously described, have furnish proof prov
the died paying Tor such properly and that
he, the parent guardian, is entitled payment for by
his having furnished the same.
The sixth section of the law enacts:
''That in all instances where any person, other than
minor, has been, shall be, engaged in the military
aforesaid, and has been, shall be, provided with
horse or equipments, with military accoutremens by
person. the thereof who has risked shall
the risk, OF such horse, equipments, military accoure
ments himself, and the has been shall be iost
destroyed abandoned, in the manner before
mentioned, such shall be allowed pay therefor
making proof in other and the further proof that
entitled thereto by having furnished the same, and
having taken the risk on HIMSELF
Besides the testimony support of his claim herein be-
required every such thereof will have prove
tina he did provide the horse equipments military
cou mentioned and took the risk thereof
himself and he is entitled to pay therefor by having
and taken the risk thereof him self
and this proof should be contained deposition of the
peon who provided by him with such horse
Or military accoutrements.
Third Ciaa of CaMs.
The sever nth section OF the law enactsi
sThot all where horses have been condemned by
officers account of their unhness service
in consequence OF the Government failing supply forage
such and their shall be allowed paid
for the facts shall be proven by legal and
factory evidence, whether oral written that such con-
tenned horse and the equipage turned a quar-
termaser OF the army whether any receipt therefor
given and produced or not"
To establish claim under This provision the olsmsnt
sdduoe the evidence of mentioned under
the head Of first class OF cases. satisfactorily proving