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and make payment therefor practicable aler
seeing This notice. and before the day appointed for tho
commencement of the public sale Of the lands embracing
the tract claimed otherwise snch slain WI be forfeited
Commissioner OF the General Land Office.
Mar 4-lawI3w
War Department, March 40, Isa8.
Rules relation to claims provied for by act of Con-
gress, approved Sd March, 1919, entitled "4n TO
provide for the payment Of horses and other property
lost destroyed IN the military service of the United
Stdtes.'
LII CLAIMS under the provisions of this act must be
~ presented at the office of the Third Auditor Of the
Treasury Department and each be subsaaated by
such evidence is hereinafter designated with respect
cases OF the class under which 1t falls
First Class Of Cases
BY the first section OF the law it is enacted
"Tha any field staff, other officer mounted mill
tia'nan volunteer ranger or cavalry, engaged in the mill
1872, who shall hereafter be In said service and has
tanned or shall sustain damage without any fault neg!i
horse battle, by the loss of wounded
e and which has died. OF shall die said wound or be-
ing so wounded shall be abandoned by order OF his officer
and lost shall sustain damage by the loss of any horse
by death abandonment because Of the unavoidable dan
gers OF the sea when on board United States transport
vessel because the United States failed supply
poraon for the horse and the owner compelled, by
the order OF his commanding officer to embark and leave
him. in consequence OF the United States failing sup
separated from his horse, and ordered do duty
foot detached from his horse when the officer
horse turned out to Craze In the woods prfes, or COM
mons because the United States failed, shall fail sup
pnent the 1eo or o the loss of in eon
Of the loss of his horse afoesad shall be al
drcd dollars: provided, that if any pay men ha. been Or
shall be made aforesaid for the and risk or
horse said payment shall deducted from value there
of unless he satisfied shall satisfy the paymaser the
show by proof that he remouned, in Which the
deduction shall only extend to the time he foot and
hereafter be made to any person
of clothing, which he entitled by law,
such payment shall be deducted from the value OF his
horse accoutrements."
To establish claim under this provision the claimant
adduce the evidence OF the officer under whose
mand he served when the loss occurred, il alive Or if
dead, then Of the surviving officer, describing the
vice, the and in which the loss happened,
and whether not it was sustained whoW any fault
ALSO the claimant loss state
when he remounted, how long he continued 50,
been furnished by the United States been owned by
another mounted mlianan volunteer to whom payment
for the and risk thereof for its forage, whilst the
possession ci 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 extend to eqnipage the arti
es which The aud value oeach
should be specified.
Second Class If Cases
The second section of the law cnaet.;
That any person who has sustained or shall sustain
the Abandonment destruction by the order of the
manding general the commanding othce quariernas
anes, Any While such W wss in the na5y OF
the United States either by mpre snen or contract ex
be exposed was agreed TO be by the owner and
any person who has sustained shall damage by
the dealt, or ndonmen and loss of any such horse
while in the aforesaid. in consequence of the
failure the OF the United States furnish the
sufficient forage and any person who lost shall
lose. has had shall have destroyed by unavoidable
cdent any HORSE mule, OK wagon cart boat Sleigh or
shall be allowed and paid the time he
entered the services provided shall appear that such loss
capture, abandonment destruction death, without
any fault negligence the part Of the OF the
properly, and while actually poycd in the service
To establish a claim under this provision it WILL in ad-
don the testimony required under the head OF first ella
in the service by contract impressmen produce the
testimony OF the officer of the United States who
toned in such claim, and also oil the officer under whose
command the same was employed at the time OF the cap
tuss destruction, loss abandonment, declaring what
way the properly taken into the service Of the United
States the value thereof whether the risk which
would be exposed agreed be incurred by the
whether not regarded horses, mules, oxon he
gagged 10 supply the with sufficient forage, in what
manner the loss happened and whether not it
tanned without any lault neg igence on his part
The fifth section Of the law enacts
1ha in all instances where any minor has been shall
shall be provided with horse equipments, mill
,ay announcements by his parent guardian and has died.
has been or shall be lost de,troyed or Abandoned
before mentioned, said parent guardian
shall be allowed pay therefor making satisfactory proof
as cases, and the further proof that he is entitled
thereto, by having furnished the same
"A
in addition such testimony applicable to his claim
previously described, have furnish proof that he prov
ed the minor with the property the rein mentioned that
tue minor died without paying for such properly and that
he, the guardian, 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 u
minor has been, shall be- engaged in the military
vice aforesaid, and has been shall be, provided with
horse equipments, with military accoutrcmens by
any person, thereof who has risked shall take
the risk OF such horse, equipments military accoutre
HIMSELF and the has been shall be los.
captured, destroyed abandoned, in the before
mentioned, such shall be allowed pay therefor on
making proof other cases. aud the further proof tn at
having taken the risk ON himself"
Besides the testimony support Of his claim herein be-
fore required such thereof Will have TO prove
that he did provds the horse, equipments or military &C
mentioned and took the risk thereof on
himself and he is entitled pay therefor, by having
furnished the and taken the risk thereof on himself;
and this proof should be contained In deposition OF the
who provided by him with such horse
equipments, military accoutrements
Third Glass of Cases.
The seventh section of the law
That in all where horses have been condemned by
board OF officers OF their untness or service
the Government iaing to supply forage,
ali such horses equpage shall be allowed and paid
for whenever shall be proven by legal and salts