The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-04-19

inc tract Claimed, Otherwise sucn VIII
RICHARD NJ. YOUNG,
Commissioner OF the General Land Office
Mar 4-Iawl3w
War Department, March 40, 1910.
Rules relation to claims provided for By an act of Con-
gress, approved Sd March, lsi9. entitled "Ai act TO
proU,de for the payment of horses and other property
lost destroyed the military servce of The United
States"
LII CLAIMS under the provisions of this act must be
"A presented the office of the Third Auditor Of the
Treasury Department, and each must 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:
'That any field, staff, other officer, mounted mill
,aman yoan,eeI ranger, or cavalry engaged I'm IN the mill
1872 who shall he in said SERVICE and has
tanned or shall sustain damage without any fault or negi
horse In battle, or by the loss OF horse wounded in bat
e and which has died, o, shall die Of said wound be-
ing SO wounded shall be abandoned by order OF his officer
and lost shall sustain damage by the loss of any horse
gers OF the when board United States transport
vessel because the United States failed supply
the order OF his commanding officer to embark and leave
him. in consequence of the United States failing sup
and from his horse and ordered to do d"v on
foot station detached from his horse when the officer
mons because the United States failed, shall fail sup.
quent thereof for the loss of necessary equpage in
of the loss OF his horse aforesaid shall be al
dred dollars provided, that if any payment has
shalt be made to aforesaid for the and risk
horse, said payment shall be deducted from there.
Of unless he satisfied shall satisfy the paymaser the
show by proof he remounted in which case the
deduction shall only extend the time he foo, and
hereafter be made any person on
count Of clothing to which he was entitled by law,
such payment shall be deducted from the value Of his
horse or accoutrements."
To establish claim under this provision the claimant
must adduce the evidence of the officer under whose
mand he served when the loss occurred, if alive or il
dead then of the next Surviving officer describing the
vice. the time and manner in which the loss happened
and whether not il sustained without any fault
also, the claimant remounted loss
when he remountcd, how long he continued so, and
not been furnished by the United States by
another mounted miltaman volunteer to whom payment
for the and risk thereof for its forage, whilst in the
possession of the claimant may have been made and if il
had been thus owned should the person and the
which the claim extend to equipage, the
ces Of which the same consisted and value ocach
Second Clas, Of Gases.
The second section of the law enact.
:" That any person who has sustained shall sustain
damage by the capture destruction by enemy by
manding general the commanding officer quarternas-
ter OF any horse, mule OK wagon, cart boat, Sleigh
the United States either by contract
cep in where the risk which the properly would
be exposed agreed be incurred by the owner and
any person who has sustained shall sustin damage by
the death abandonment and of such horse mule,
while in the service afore said, consequence
failure the part OF the United Sta tes furnish the
% s h Or Ipa Sny h no mas lost Or shall
cdent any HORSE mule wagon, cart, boat sleigh,
shall be allowed and paid the value thereof a, the tune he
entered the services provided shall appear that such los
any fault negligence the part OF the owner OF the
property and while was actually employed in the service
of the United States"
n visio II in ,d-
don the testimony required Under the head of first class
OF be necessary in cases where the property lost
the by contract impressnen, produce the
testimony OF the officer agent of the United States
toned such claim, aud also OF toe officer under whose
command the employed at the time OF the cap
way the properly was taken into the service of the United
States the value thereof whether not the risk which
and whether not 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 enacts:
"That in all instances where minor has been shall
was OF shall be provided with equipments. mill
by his guardian, and has died.
has been or shall lost captured destroyed or abandoned
in the before mentioned, said parent guardian
other cases, and the further proof that entitled
thereto by having furnished the same"
parent gardian of deceased minor will therefore,
in addition to such testimony applicable to his claim as is
previously described have furnish proof that he prov
minor property therein mentioned, that
the minor died without paying oS such properly and that
he the parent or guardian, is entitled TO payment for by
his having furnished the same.
The sixth section of the law enacs:
"Thnt in all instances where any person, other than
minor has baen, shall be, engaged in the military
vice aforesaid and has BEEN shall be, provided with
horse equipments, with military Announcements, by
any person. the thereof who has risked shall take
the risk, oil such horse, equipments military sccoure-
ments himself and the has been shall be lost
ptured destroyed abandoned in the before
mentoned such shall be allowed pay therefor, on
m nrOOf N
he entitled thereto by having furnished the same, and
having taken the risk on himself"
Besides the testimony support of his claim herein be-
fore required such owner thereof VIII have TO prove
that he did provide the horse equipments military
mentioned and took the risk thereof
himself he entitled to pay therefor by having
the and taken the risk thereof on himself;
and this proof should be contained in deposition of the
who had been provided by him with such HORSE
equipments, or military accoutrements.
Third Class of Cases.
The seventh section of the law
Thu, in all whe have condemned by
officers of their unness for service
all such and their equpage shall be paid
for whenever the facts shall be proven by legal and
factory evidence, whether oral written that such
demned horse and the equipage uraed quar-
Of the army, whether therefor
given and produced or not"
To establish claim under this provision the claimant
adduce the evidence of the
the head ost class OF cases. satisfactorily proving the
property therein described was while in the military