The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-05-01

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RICHARD M. YOUNG,
Commissioned OF the General Land Office.
Mar 4-1awl3w
War Department, March 90, Is49.
Rules relation to claims prouied for by act Of Con-
gress, approved Sd March, lS49 entitled "An act to
proUtde for the paymeas Of horses and other property
lost or destroyed 4" the military service Of the United
States.'
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 subsanated by
such evidence hereinafter designated with respect
Of the class under which it falls.
First Class Of Cases.
By the first section of the law it is enacted:
''Tha any field staff, other officer, mounted mill
anan volunteer ranger. or cavalry engaged in the mill
e service OF the United States since the 18th Of June,
1872 who shall hereafter be in said SERVICE and has
tanned or shall sustain damage without any fault or negli-
horse in battle or by the loss OF horse wounded in bat
e and which has died. o, shall die Of said wound or be-
and lost shall sustain damage by the loss of horse
gers Of the sea when on board United transport
vessel because the United States failed supply
The Older his commanding officer embark leave
him, in consequences of the United States falling sup
and separated from his horse, and ordered do duty
foot station detached from his horse when the officer
horse turned out to in the woods prares,
mons because the United States failed, shall fail sup
qent thereof Tor the loss of necessary equipage
sequence of the loss of his horse aforesaid shall be al
low ed and paid the value thereof to exceed two hun
ded dolars provided, that any payment has been
shall be made to aforesaid for the and risk
for forage after the DEATH loss, abandonment of his
horse said payment shall be deducted from the value there
Of unless he satisfied sh or shall satisfy All, the pay%a.er at the
show by proof that he renlountcd in which the
provided, also, if any payment shall have been shall
hereafter be made to any person aforementioned
such payment shall be deducted from the value of his
horse or accoutrements."
To establish claim under this provision the claimant
must
mand he served when the loss occurred if alive if
dead then of the next surviving officer describing the
properly the value thereof at time of entering the ser
vice, the time and in which the loss happened,
and whether or sustained without any fault or
negligence the claimants part The evidence should
Also the claimant romountcd after the loss
when he remounted, how long he continued so, and
explain whether the wherein RENOVATED had
not been furnished by the United States been owned
and risk thereof its forage whilst in the
Of the claimant have been made and if
had been thus owned should the and the
mand TO which he belonged And in every instance in
which the claim may extend to eqnpagc the several arti.
Giles Of which the consisted aud separate value oeach,
should be specified.
Second Class Of Cases
The second section of the law enacts:
s'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
ter, OF any horse, mule OK wagon cart boat sleigh or
harness, while such property in the military service of
cept where the risk which the properly would
be exposed agreed be 1rred by the owner and
the death abandonment and loss Of any such horse mule
while in the service aforesaid, in Consequence of the
with sufficient forage and any who has lost shall
lose. or has had shall have destroyed by unavoidable
harness, lille such property the aforesaid
shall be allowed and paid the value thereof the time he
entered the service; provided shall appear that such los
capture, Abandonment destruction or death, was without
any fault or on tue part Of the owner OF the
Of e n snd saes actually IN the service
To establish claim under this provision it will, in ad
tho Of Er.c
OF be necessary in where the property lost
in The service by contract or mpressmen to produce the
i'm pressed contracted for the service OF the property
toned in such claim and also OF the officer under whose
iure destruction, loss abandonment declaring in what
states the value thereof whether or not the risk to which it
would be exposed agreed to be incurred by the
gagged supply the with sufficient forage, in what
manner the loss happened and whether or not it was
tanned without any fault or negligence on his part
The fifth section of the law enacts
That all where any minor has been or shall
be engaged in the military service the United States and
tay Announcements by his parent guardian and has died.
shall die, without paying for said property, and the
the before mentioned said parent guardian
shall be allowed pay therefor making satisfactory proof
thereto, by having furnished the same"
parent gardian of deceased minor will therefore,
previously described, proof provi
ded the minor with the property therein mentioned that
he the parent or GUARDIAN entitled TO Tor by
his having furnished the same.
The sixth section Of the law enacts;
"That in all instances where any person, other than
minor, has bsen, shall be- engaged in the military
aforesaid, and has been shall be, provided with
horse equipments, with military by
any person, the thereof who has rsked shall take
the risk OF such horse, equipments or military accoutre-
himself, and the has boen shall be lost,
captured destroyed abandoned, in the manner before
mentioned, such shall be allowed pay therefor, on
making proof other and the further PROOF tha
he is eniad thereto by having furnished the same and
having taken the risk on himself"
Besides testimony support of his claim herein be-
required, such thereon VIII nave TO prove
provide horse, pments, or military ac-
therein mentioned and took the risk thereof
himself and that he entitled to pay therefor, by having
and this proof should be contained in deposition Of
person who had been provided by him with horse
equipments, or military accoutrements.
Third Glass of Cases
The seventh section of the law enacts;
Tba in all whe hor have been condemned by
boar of of their untness service
in OF the Government failing ppy forage
All and their equipage shall be allowed paid
for whenever the facts shall be proven by legal salts
factory evidence whether oral written such con-
demned horse and the equipage tursed quar-
OF the army, whether any receipt therefor
given and produced or not"
To establish claim under this provision the claimant
adduce the evidence of the under
hear