The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-05-04

War Department, March 40, IsAe.
Rules relation CLAIMS prouided for BY act Of Con-
gress, approved Sd March, 1919, entitled Aa act TO
Proptde for The payment Of horses and other property
lost or destroyed az the mlary service Of the United
Siates."
A LII CLAIMS under the provisions of this be
"A presented the Office OF the Third Auditor of the
such evidence hereinafter designated with respect
cases oil the class under which it falls
FIRST Class Of Cases
BY the first section of the law il is enacted:
THAT any field, staff, other officer mounted mill
tiaman volunteer ranger or cavalry, engaged in the mill
1872 who shall hereafter be in said servce and has
tanned shall sustain damage without any fault or negl
horse in battle by the loss of horse wounded in bat
,e and which has died, shall die of said wound be-
and lost shall damage by the loss of any horse
by death because Of the unavoidable dan
gers the when board United States transport
vessel because the United States failed to supply trans
poration for the horse and the owner was compelled by
him. in consequence Of the United States failing
an separa,ed from his horse and ordered to do duty on
foot station detached from his horse when the officer
in the immediate command ordered shall order the
horse turned Craze in the woods, praies,
mons, because the United States failed, shall fail sup
ply sufficient forage, and the shalt be conse-
qnent thereof Tor the loss of necessary
sequence Of the loss of his horse aforesaid shall be al
bred dollars provided that if any payment has been
shall be made 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 shall satisfy the the
time he made or shall make the payment, or thereafter
show by proof that he remounted in which case the
deduction shall only extend to the time he was on foot and
hereafter be made to any person on ac-
such payment shall be deducted from tho value of his
horse Announcements"
To establish claim under this provision the claimant
must adduce the evidences Of the officer under whose
mand he served when the loss occurred if alive if
dead then OF the nc. next 'nyy" s oecf describing the
vice, the time and in which the loss happened
negligence The claimants part The evidence should
Also the caimantw renounted after the loss
explain neither the rcmountcd had
been furnished by the United States been owned by
another mounted miarnan volunteer to whom payment
for and risk thereof for its forage, whilst in the
possession Of the claimant INDY huve been made and If it
mand which he belonged And in every instance IN
which the claim may extend to equpage the several ar
should be specified.
Second Class of Cases.
The second section of the law enacs:
a. That any person who has sustained shall Sustain
damage by the capture destruction by enemy, by
the abandonment destruction by the order OF the COM
manding general the commanding officer, or qurteras-
ter, Of any horse, mule wagon cart, boa scgh
harness. while such property in the military service OF
ee I in the e the would
be exposed agreed to be nc1red by the owner and
person who has sustained shall Tin damage by
the death or abandonment any horse mule,
while in the service Aforesaid in of the
failure on the part of the United
with sufficient forage and any person who lost shall
ose has had shall have destroyed by unavoidable
harness While such properly was service aforesaid,
shall be allowed and paid the value thereof the time he
capture destruction, DEATH without
any fault negligence the part of the OF the
property and while actually employed in the service
of the United States
To establish u claim under this provision it WILL in ad-
dlon the testimony required under the head of first class
cases. be necessary in where the property lost
in the service by contract or mprcssnent to produce the
testimony OF the officer agent of the United States who
for the service Of the property
toned such claim, and also OF the officer uder whose
command the same was employed at the mc OF the cap.
nre desrucon loss. or abandonment, declaring in wha,
way the properly Was taken into the service OF the United
States value thereof, whether OF not the risk TO which
would be exposed agreed be incurred by the owner
and whether not as REGARDED horses mules oxen he en-,
manner happened, and whether not it was
tanned without any FAULT or negligence on his part
The fifth section Of the law enactsi
.Thut in where any minor has been shall
engaged in the military service OF the United States. and
shall he provided wil horse or equipments or null
shall die without paying for said property and the same
in the manner before mentioned, said parent guardian
shall be allowed pay 'hsreor on makes satisfactory proof
thereto, by having furnished the same"
parent garlan Of deceased minor will therefore,
previously described, have furnish proof that he Prov
ded the minor with the property therein mentioned, that
he the parent or guardian is entitled TO payment io il by
his having furnished the same
The sixth section of the law enacts,
"Thnt in all instances where person, other than
minor, has baen, shall be, engaged in the military
Aforesaid AND has been, shall be, provided with
horse O equipments, with military accontfements by
any person. the thereof who has risked sn take
risk, OF such horse, equipments, military accoutre-
himself and the has been shall be lost
captured destroyed abandoned in the manner before
mentioned, such shall be allowed pay therefor ON
making proof In other cases. and the further PROOF h
he entitled thereto by having furnished the same, ana
having taken the risk himself"
Besides the testimony in support OF his claim herein be-
required such thereof VIII have to prove
that he did provide horse equipments military
mentioned and took the risk thereof
himsef and that entitled therefor by having
furnished the and taken the risk thereof himsclf
and this proof should be contained deposition OF the
ne sn who provided by him with such horse
equipments, o military accoutenents
Third Class of Cases.
The seventh section Of the law enactss
Tbat in all cases horses have been condemned by
boa rd of officers of their unncss for
in OF the Government failing supply forage
all and their page shall be allowed and paid
for the facts shall be proven by legal and
factory evidence, whether oral written that such
demned and the equpage tursed a quar-
temas,er OF the army whether receipt therefor
given and produced or not
To establish claim under this provision the claimant
adduce the evidence of tho mentioned under
the head os GLASS OF satisfactorily proving that the
property therein described was while in military
of the United States, condemned by board Of officers
of their being rendered unfit for service in
sequence OF the Government failing to supply forage, and