The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-04-27

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the tract claimed, Otherwise such claim will be forfeited
RICHARD M. YOUNG,
Commissioner Of the General Land Office.
War Department, March 40, Is40.
Rules relation to dams provided for by an act of Con-
greS, approved Sd March, lsla. entitled "da act to
provide for the payment of horses and other property
lost or destroyed IN the military serUiee Of The United
States"
LII CLAIMS under the provisions Of this act must be
Treasury Department, and each must be subsaRated by
such evidence as is hereinafter designated with respect to
cases OF the class under which il falls
First Class Of Cases
BY the first section of the law il is enacted:
'Tha any field, staff, other officer mounted mill
ay service Of the United states since the 18Th Of june
1872 who shall hereafter be in said service and has
gence his part while in said service, by loss Of
horse in baue or by the loss of horse wounded in bat
ing wounded shall be abandoned by order his officer
and lost shall sustain damage by the loss of any horse
by death or abandonment because OF the unavoidable dan
gers OF the when board United States transport
vessel because the United States failed supply
portaon for the horse and the owner was COMPLETED by
the order of his commanding officer embark and leave
him, in of the United States failing sup
ply sufficient forage, the rider dsnounted
and separated from his horse and ordered to do duty on
foot station detached from his horse when the officer
in the immediate command ordered or shall order the
horse turned Craze in the woods, prares
mons because the United States failed shall fail sup
ply sufficient forage and the or shall be conse-
qnent thereof of necessary eupage in
sequence Of the loss of his horse aforesaid shall be al
lowed paid the value thereof exceed two hun
bred dollars provided, that il any payment has been
shall be made to Aforesaid for the and risk
horse said payment shall be deducted from the value
of unless he satisfied shall satisfy the paymaster the
time he made oe shall make the payment or thereafter
show by proof that he remouned which the
deduction shall only extend to the time he foot and
provided, also, if any payment shall have been shall
hereafter be made any person above on
count OF clothing to which he was not entitled by law
such payment shall be deducted from the value OF his
horse or accoutremenis."
To establish claim under this provision the claimant
adduce the evidence OF the officer under whose
nand he served when the loss occurred, if alive Or if
dead, then of the next Surviving oilcc describing the
vice, the time and in which the loss happened
and whether not it sustained without any fault
Also the ella INFANT remouned alter tue loss
when he was remouned how long he continued so, and
not been furnished by the United States been owned by
another mounted militaman volunteer TO whom
for the use aud risk thereof for its forage whilst in
possession Of the claimant may 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 equipage the several ar
ccs of which die consisted and value ofeach
should be specified.
Second Class Of Cases
The second section of the law cnacts.
"Thut any person who has sustained or shall sustain
damage by the destruction by onemy, by
the or destruction by The order of the COM
mandiDg general, the commanding officer quartermas
OF horse mule, OK, wagon, CART boat, sleigh,
h ncJ sases ehep by "e or csaIac c9
where the risk to which the properly would
he exposed was agreed TO be Incurred by the owner and
any person who has sustained or shall damage by
the death abandonment and loss OF any such horse, mule,
failure on the part OF the United Sistes to furnish the same
with sufficient forage and person who has lost shall
osc has had shall have destroyed by unavoidable
cident any horse. mule, wagon cart boat, sleigh,
harness. while such property was IN The service aforesaid
entered the services provided it shall appear that such loss
capture abandonment Instruction. or death, was without
any fault negligence on the part of the owner OF the
urpp IN n
of the United States"
To establish claim under this provision will, in add
dton the emony required under the head Of first class
of be necessary in cases where the property lost
the by contract or impessment to produce the
testimony OF the officer agent OF the United States who
impressed contracted for the service of the property
toned such claim, and also OF tho officer under whose
command the same employed at the time OF the cap
destruction, loss or abandonment declaring IN what
way the property taken into the service OF the United
States value thereof whether not the risk to which
would be exposed was agreed to be incurred by the owner
and whether or not as regarded horses mules oxen he en-
gagged to supply the with sufficient forage in what
manner the loss happened and whether 1t
tanned without any fault negligence on his part.
The fifth section of the law enacts'
That in all instances where any minor has been shall
be engaged in the military service OF the United States, and
shall be provided with horse equipments mill
ary by his parent GUARDIAN and has died.
or Shall die without paying for said property and the
has been shall be lost captured destroyed abandoned
he1naner before mentioned said parent or guardian
shall be allowed pay therefor making satisfactory proof
other and tho further proof that he is 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
ded the minor with the property therein mentioned that
minor died without paying for such properly and that
he parent guardian, is entitled payment for 1t by
his having furnished the same.
The sixth section of tho law cnacs:
'That in all instances where any person. other than
minor has baen, shall be- engaged in the military ser
vice aforesaid and has becn shall be. provided with
horse equipments, with military accouements, by
any person, the owner thereof who has riske or shall take
the risk such horse, equipments, military accoure-
himself, and the has been or shai De ios
captured destroyed abandoned in the manner before
mentioned such shall be allowed pay thcreiof on
making proof in other and the further PROOF ina,
he entitled thereto by having furnished the same, ana
having taken the risk on himself
Besides the testimony support OF his claim herein be-
fore required every such thereof viii have TO prove
that he did provide the horse equipments or military ac-
mentioned and took the risk thcrcoi on
himse and that is entitedto pay therefo 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, military accoutenents.
Third Class of Cases.
The seventh section OF the law enactss
erb., i'm ALI where have been condemned by
hoard of officers OF their unness for service,
IL, OF the Government failing to supply forage,
ali ,c horses and their cqupage shall be allowed and paid
or whenever the facts shall bo proven by legal and salts
factory evidence, whether oral written, that such
denned and the equipage turaed quar-
Of the army, whether any receipt therefor was
uiven and produced or not
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