The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-05-09

seeing This notice and before the day appointed for the
commencement of the public sale Of the lands embracing
RICHARD M YOUNG,
Commissioner OF the General Land Office.
War Department. March 40, 1919.
Rules IN relation 10 CLAIMS provied for by of Con-
propide for the payment of horses and other property
lost or destroyed IN the military service Of the United
States" ts
"A presented at the office OF the Third Auditor of the
Treasury Department. and each be by
such evidence hereinaer designated, with
cases OF the class under which il falls.
First Class Of Cases.
BY the first section of the law il is enacted
"That any field staff, other officer, mounted mill
anan volunteer ranger, cavalry engaged in the mill
ary service OF the United States the 18th of June
1871 who shall hereafter be in said service, and has
tanned or shall sustain damage without any fault neg
gence his part while in said service, by the loss Of
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ing wounded shall be abandoned by order his officer
by death or because q the d"n
gers OF the when board United States transport
vessel United States falsd to supply trans
portaon for the horse and the compelled by
the order OF his commanding officer, embark and leave
him, consequence of the United States failing sup
ply sufficient forage because the rider dsmounied
and separated from his horse and ordered do duty
foot detached from his horse when the officer
in the immediate command ordered shall ordsr the
horse turned out TO Craze in the woods praries
ply sufficient forage. and the loss shall ne
qent thereof for the loss of necessary equpage
sequence OF the loss OF his horse as aforesaid shall be al
lowed and paid the value thereof exceed two hun
dred dollars provided that any payment ha. been
shall be made ny aforesaid for the risk or
tor forage after the death, loss, abandonment Of his
horse said payment shall be deducted from there
Of unless he satisfied shall satisfy the payma the
time he made or shall make the payment, thereafter
deduction shall only extend the time he and
provided also II any payment shall have been shall
count Of clothing 10 which he was not entitled by law,
such payment shall be deducted from the value of his
horse Announcements"
To establish a this provision the claimant
must adduce the evidence OF the officer under whose
nand he served when the loss occurred, i alive Or if
Dead then OF the next surviving officer, describing the
property the value thereof the time Of entering
and whether it sustained without any fault or
negligence on the claimants part The evidence should
when he renovated, how long he continued So and
explain whether the horse wherein he remounted had
another mounted mitiaman volunteer HON payment
fol- the and risk thereof for its forage, whilst the
had been thus owned should the person and
mand to which he belonged. And in every instance in
Giles which the same consisted and separate value oeach
should be specified.
Second Glass of Cases
The second sec ton of the law enact.:
"That any person who ha. 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 quarteras-
ter OF any horse, mule, wagon cart boat, Sleigh
harness, while such property the military of
the United States either by mpre contract,
cept in where the risk which the property would
who has sustained shall sustain damage by
the death abandonment and loss of any such horse mule
failure the part of the United the same
with sufficient forage and who has lost shall
lose. or has had shall have destroyed by unavoidable
cdent any horse mule. wagon cart, boat Sleigh
harness. while such property in the aforesaid
the provided shall appear such loss
capture, abandonment destruction death, without
any fault negligence the part of the
properly. and while actually poyed service
of the United States"
To establish claim under tbs provision il WILL in ad-
don the e,timony required under the head of first class
be where the property lost
testimony OF the officer or agent of the United States who
impressed for the service of the property
command the employed the time OF the cap
destruction, loss abandonment declaring in what
way properly taken into the of the United
States the value thereof whether the risk which
would be exposed agreed to be incurred by the owner
and whether regarded horses mules, oxen, he
gagged supply the with sufficient forage, in
the loss happened and whether not il was
tanned without any fault or negligence on his part.
The fifth section Of the law enacts;
"Tha in all instances where any minor has been shall
be engaged in the military service of the United Saes and
shall be provided with horse pments, mill
tay by his qua ran and has died.
shall die without paying for said property, and the
has shall be lost captured destroyed abandoned
the before mentioned said parent guardan
shall be allowed pay therefor on making satisfactory proof
thereto, by having furnished the same.'
parent gardian of deceased minor will there FORE
previously described have furnish proof that he prov
ded the minor with the property therein mentioned that
the minor died without paying Tor such properly and that
he, the parent guardian, is enlcd payment Tor by
his having furnished the same
The sixth section of the law enacts:
"Tha in all instances where any person, other than a
minor has been, shall be- engaged in the military
aforesaid and has been shall be, provided with
horse equ pments, with military by
any person. the thereof who has rsked shall take
the rsk, OF such horse equipments military accoutre
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 in other and the further proof that
he is entitled thereto by having furnished the and
having taken the risk on himself"
Besides tho testimony support of his claim herein be-
fore required such thereof will have to
that he did provide the horse, equipments, military
therein mentioned and took the risk thereof
himself he is entitled to pay therefor by having
furnished and taken the risk thereof on hmse
person who had been provided by him with such horse
equipments or military accoutrements.
Third Cia" of Cases.
The seventh section of the law enacts,
THAT all where horses have been condemned by
ard of officers account of their untness service
consequence OF the Government failing supply forage
all such horses and their equipage shall be allowed paid
whenever the facts shall be proven by loyal
factory evidence whether oral written such con-
demned horse and the rquipage turaed quar-
temas'er oil the army whether any receipt therefor