The North-Carolina standard., 1849-06-27
JAMES X. POLK.
ROBT. G.. WINTHROP,
Speaker of the Houseof Representatives.
t..-t &. M. DALLAS, 1905
Vice President of the United States, and
President of the Senate.
1PUBLIC-No. COL


An Act provide for the payment OF horses and other
property lost destroyed in the military service of
the United States.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen-
atives of the United States of Ameriea in Congress 0s-
sem6Led, That any field, staff, or other officer,
mounted militiaman, volunteer, ranger. cavalry,
engaged in the service of the United States since the
eighteenth of 1une eighteen hundred and twelve, or
who shall hereafter be in said service, and has sus
ained or shall sustain, damage without any fault
negligence his part, while in said service, by the
loss Of horse in battle, or by the loss of horse
wounded in battle, and which has died shall die
of said wound, or being wounded, shall be aban-
doned by order of his officer and lost shall sustain
damage by the loss of any horse by death abandon
ment because of the unavoidable dangers OF the sea
when on board United States transport vessel, or
because the United States failed to supply ranspora
ton for the horse, and the owner compelled by
the order of his commanding officer to embark and
leave him, or In consequence of the United States
failing to supply sufficient toage or because the rider
was dismounted and separated from his horse and
ordered to do duty foot at station detached from
his horse, or when the officer in the immediate COM
mand ordered shall order the horse turned out to
Craze in the woods prares, commons, because the
United States failed shall fail, supply sufficient
forage and the loss shall be consequent there
Of or for the loss of necessary equPage, in conse-
auence of the loss of his horse, aforesaid, shall be
allowed and paid the value thereof not to exceed two
hundred dollars: Provided, That if any payment has
been, or shall be, made to any aforesaid, for the
use and risk, for forage after the death, loss, or
abandonment of his horse said payment shall be de-
Quoted from the value thereof unless he satIshed, or
shall satisfy the paymaster at the time he made or
shall make the payment thereafter show, by proof,
that he was remounted, in which case the deduction
shall only extend to the time he was on foot: find
Irorided also, If any payment shall have been, or
shall hereafter be, made to any person abovemention-
ed on account of clothing to which he was not entitled
by law, such payment shall be deducted from the
value of his horse or accoutrements.
SEC. 2. and be IT further enacted. That any person
who has; sustained, shall sustain, damage by the
capture or destruction by enemy, or by the aban-
donment or destruction by the order of the command
ing general, the commanding officer or quartermaster
of any horse, mule, OK wagon, CART boat, sleigh, or
harness, while such property was In the military
service of the United States, either by lmpreSsment
or contract, except in where the risk to which
the property would be exposed agreed to be in
CURED by the owner; and any person who has sus-
tained or shall sustain, damage by the deathor aban-
donment and loss of any such horse, mule, or OK,
while in the service aforesaid In consequences of the
flure on the part of the United Satesto furnish the
same with sufficient forage, and any person who has
lost or shall Iose has had, shall have, destroy
ed by unavoidable accident, any horse, mule, OK,
wagon, cart, boat, sleigh, or harness, while such
property in the service aforesaid shall be allow
led and paid the value thereof at the time he entered
the service Provided, 1t shall appear that such loss,
capture abandonment, destruction, or death, was
without any fault or negligence the part OF the
owner of the property, and while 1t was actually en-
nloved in the service of the United States. 1ia-
SEC g. find be at further eriacted, That the claims
provided for under this act shall be adjusted by the
rbird Auditor under such rules shall pc Prescrib-
ed by the Secretary of War, under the direction or
tho consent of the President of the United States,
asweH as in regard the receipt of applications of
claimants as the species and degree of evidence the
manner in which such evidence shall be taken and
authenticated, which rules shall be such as In the
of the President shall be beet calculated to
btn the object of this act. paying due regard as
well to the claims of individual justice as to the IN
terest of the Unted States which rules and regula-
lions shalt be published for four weeks in such news
pnblished. as the Secretary of War shall Direct
SEC. A. .4nd be it further enacted, That IN all ad-
indications of said Auditor upon the claims above