The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-04-05
War Department, March 80, Is49

Do do from Mint of The United States, Phila
TREAsuRER's OFFICE, March q, 1919
War Department. March 30, Is49.
Rules relation TO claims provided for by act Of Con-
gress, approved 81 March, 1919, entitled "Ah act TO
proUide for The payment of horses and other property
lost or destroyed IN The military Serpice Of The United
States"
LII CLAIMS under the provisions of this act must bo
"A presented the office Of the Third Auditor of the
and each must be @ by
cases of the class under which it falls.
First Glass of Cases.
By the first ton OF the law ii Is enacted:
''That any field, staff other officer, mounted mill
tanan volunteers ranger or cavalry, engaged in the mill
service OF the United States since the 18th of June
Isi2 who shalt hereafter be in said service and has u+
tanned shall sustain damage, without any fault or neg
gence his part while in said service by the loss OF
tie and which has died shall die OF said wound, or be-
ing 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 when board United States transport
vessel because the United States failed supply trans
poarion for the horse and the compelled, by
the order OF his commanding officer, to embark and leave
him. or IN consequence oi he United states ian5 70 sup
ply sufficient forage or because the rider was
and separated from his horse and ordered to do duty
foot at station from his horse or when the ohcer
in the immediate command ordered or shall ordar the
horse turned out TO Craze IN the woods praries or com
mons because the United States failed shall fail sup
ply sufficient forage and the loss was or shall be conse
thereof for the loss OF necessary equpage in
lowed and paid the value thereof not to exceed Two hun
dred dollars; provided, that any payment has been or
shall be made aforesaid for the and rlsk or
for forage after the death, loss, abandonment of his
horse said payment shall be deducted from the value there
time be made shall make the payment or thereafter
show by proof that he remounted, in which case the
deduction shall only extend the time he Oh foot and
provided aiso If any payment shall have been or shall
hereafter be made to any person above on ac-
count of clothing which he not entitled by law,
such payment shall be deducted from the value of his
horse or accoutrenents.
To establish under this provision the claimant
adduce the evidence the officer under whose
mand he served when the loss occurred II alive or, If
dead then of the surviving officer, describing the
property the value thereof at the Tune OF entering the ser
vice. the time and manner in which tho loss happened,
and whether sustained without any fault or
negligence on the claimants part The evidence should
also, in the claimant reounted after the loss,
when he was reonhted, how long he continued So and
explain whether me horse whereon ne was RENOVATED ad
been furnished by the United States, been owned by
another noun ed miaman or volunteer to whom payment
for the and risk thereof, for its forage whilst in the
possession If the claimant may have been made and II
had been thus owned should name the person and the com
mand 10 which he belonged. And in every instance in
which the claim may extend equipage, the several art
ces which the consisted and value oeach
should be specified.
Second Class Of Gases
The second section of the law enacts,
" That any person who has sustained or shall sustain
damage by the capture or destruction by by
the alb tndonment destruction by the order of the
mandlpg general, the commanding oIce qualtermas
ter, of any horse mule, OK wagon, cart boat sleigh
harness. while such properly was IN the military service oil
the United states, either by mpre smen or contract ex.
cept in where the risk to which the properly would
be exposed was agreed 10 be Incurred by the owner and
any person who has sustained shall sustain damage by
the death abandonment and loss OF such horse mule
while in the service aore sad in consequence OF the
failure on the part of the United States to furnish the same
with sufficient forage and any person who has lost or shall
cden any horse mule, OK wagon, cart, boat Sleigh or
harness. while such property was in the service aforesaid
shall be allowed and paid the value thereof AT the time he
entered the services provided it shall appear that such loss
capture, abandonment destruction or death, was without
any fault or negligence the part OF the owner oil the
property and while was actually employed in the service
Of the United States"
To establish claim under this provision it WILL in ad-
don the testimony required under the head of first
OF cases. be in cases where the property lost
in the by npessment produce the
testimony the officer agent of the United who
impressed for the service OF the property
toned in such claim and also OF the officer under whose
command the employed at the time OF the cap
ture destruction, loss Abandonment, declaring I'm what
the property taken into the service OF the United
States the value thereof whether not the risk which it
would be exposed agreed to be incurred by the
and whether not REGARDED horses mules oxen he
gagged supply the with sufficient forage, in what
manner the loss happened and whether or not was sus-
tanned without any fault or 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
ary Announcements by his parent guardian and has died.
shall die without paying for said property and the
in the manner before mentioned said parent guardian
shall be allowed pay therefor making satisfactory proof
as in other cases. and the further proof that he is entitled
thereto, by having furnished the same"
parent gardian Of deceased minor will therefore,
previously described have furnish proof provi-
ded the minor with the property the rein mentioned that
WITHOUT paying properly, anu
he the parent or guardian, is entitled payment for il by
his having furnished the same
The sixth section of the law enacts,
That in all instances where person, other than
minor, has baen, shall be- engaged in the mita
vice Aforesaid and has BEEN Or shall be- provided with
horse or equipments, with military accoutfemens by
any person. the owner thereof who has rsked shall take
the Tisk, oil such horse equipments military accoue-
ments himself, and the has shall be lost,
captured, destroyed, abandoned, the before
mcntioned such owner shall be allowed pay therefor
making proof as in other and the further proof At
hu hny tur the and
having taken the risk on himself"
Besides the testimony in support of his claim herein be-
Tore required every such thereof will have
that he did provda the horse, equipments or military
couemens therein mentioned and the risk thereof
furnished the and taken risk thereof on himself
and this proof should be contained in deposition Of the
person who Rad been provided by him with such horse
equipments or military eccoutrements.
Third Class of Cases.
The seventh section of the law
That in all where horses have been condemned by
board OF officers of their unuess for SERVICE
In consequence of the Government failing to supply forage
oil such horses and their equpage shall be allowed and PAID
for whenever the facts shall be proven by legal and salts
demned horse and the equpage tursed to quar-
termaste OF the army whether receipt therefor was
given and produced or not"
To establish claim under this provision the claimant
must adduce the evidence of the witnesses under
the head OF first class OF satisfactorily proving that the
property therein described was, while in the military ser