The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-04-24

Of the public sale Of the lands bracing
RICHARD M. YOUNG,
Commissioner of the General Land Office.
Mar 4-lawi3w
War Department, March 40, Is4o.
Rules IN relation 10 claims provided for BY act Of Con-
gress, approved Sd March, ls49 entitled an act to
ProUide for the payment Of horses and other property
lost or destroyed in the military service Of tie United
States"
LII CLAIMS under the provisions of this be
Treasury Department and each be substantaed by
such evidence hereinafter Designated with respect
cases Of the class under which 1t falls.
First Class Of Cases.
BY the first section of the law il is enacted,
"That any field, staff, other officer, mounted mill
ny service Of ,he United States Since tie 18Th june
1872 who shall hereafter be in said SERVICE and has
gence on his part while in said service by the loss q
horse in battle by the loss Of horse wounded in bat
ing wounded shall be abandoned by order Of his officer
and lost shall sustain damage by the loss of any horse
gers Of the sea when on board United Stat transport
vessel because the United States failed supply
portaton for the horse. and the compelled, by
the order of his commanding officer embark and leave
him, or in consequence the United States failing sup
and from his horse and ordered to do duty on
foot station detached from his horse when the officer
in the Immediate command ordered shall ordsr the
mons because the United States failed, shall fail sup
ply sufficient forage and the loss was or shalt be conse-
quen thereof for the loss of necessary equpage in
sequence Of the loss Of his horse aforesaid shall be al
lowed and paid the value thereof to exceed two hun
dred dollars provided, that il any payment has been or
shall be made to aforesaid for the and fisk
for forage after the DEATH loss, abandonment Of his
HORSE said shall be deducted from the value there
Of unless he satisfied shall satisfy the paymaster at the
time he made shall make the payment, thereafter
show by proof that he was remouned in which case the
deduction shall only extend to the time he foot and
provided also, any payment shall have been shall
hereafter be made any person on ac
such payment shall be deducted from the value of his
horse or accoutrements"
To establish under this provision the claimant
adduce the evidence OF the officer under whose
mand he served when the loss occurred, il alive if
dead, then of the surviving officer describing the
Vice. The time and manner in which the los, happened
and whether not it was sustained without any fault
negligence on the claimants part The evidence should
also the claimant remouned after the loss
when he remouned how long he continued so, and
whether the horse wherein RENOVATED had
not been furnished by the United States been owned by
another mounted miltiamanor volunteer to whom payment
for the and risk thereof for its forage, whilst the
possession Of The claimant have been made and if it
mand to which he belonged. And in every instance in
which the claim extend equipage, the several arti
Giles Of 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 shall sustain
abandonment destruction by the order of the
nanding general the commanding officer quartermas
hainess While such properly was in the military Of
the United States, either ny mpre' or contract ex,
cases where 10 winch property would
be exposed agreed be by the owner, and
any person who has sustained shall lin damage by
OK while in the service aoresad of the
failure the part of the United States furnish the
ose or has had or Shall have destroyed by unavo.abe
ciden any morse, mule. OK wagon, cart boat Sleigh or
shall be allowed and paid the value thereof at the time he
entered tho services provided shall appear that such loss,
capture, abandonment destruction death, without
any fault negligence the part of the owner OF the
properly and while i was actually employed in the service
To establish claim under this provision il will in ad-
don to the testimony required under the head of first class
OF be in cases where the property lost was
in the by impressment, produce the
testimony Of tho officer agent the United States who
toned in such claim and also Of the officer under whose
command the employed at the time OF the cap
ture destruction loss or abandonment declaring in what
States, the value thereof whether the risk which
and whether or not regarded horses mules oxen, he
gagged to supply the same with sufficient forage, in what
the loss happened, and whether not was sus-
tanned without any fault or negligence on his part.
The filth section Of the law enacts.
"That in all instances where minor has becn or shall
@ In a he
Announcements by his parent or guardian and has died.
has been or shall be ps DESTROYED or abandoned
in the before mentioned said parent or guardian
in other cases and the further proof tina, he is entitled
thereto, by having furnished the same"
parent gardan of deceased minor will therefore,
in addition such testimony applicable to his claim as is
previously described have furnish proof that he provl
ded the minor with the property therein MENTIONED that
the minor died without paying for such properly and that
he, the GUARDIAN entitled 10 payment Tor by
his having furnished the same.
The sixth section of the law enacts
That in all instances where any person. other than
minor, has baen shall be, engaged in the military ser
aforesaid, and has been shall be, provided WIN
horse equipments with military accontrements, py
person. the thereof who has ked, or shall take
the risk, OF such horse, equipments, or tay accouIe
ments himself and been or SHAH be ost
destroyed, abandoned in the manner before
making proof other and the fnrher PROOF thar
entitled thereto by having furnished the same ana
having taken tho 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 horse equipments. or military
mentioned and took the risk thereof
bim.cl and that entitled pay therefor, by having
rnsbed the same and taken the risk thereof hnse
and this proof should be contained in deposition of the
noui pments or military Announcements.
Third Glass of Cases
The seventh section of the law enacts,
sThat in where horses have been condemned by
board officers their unness service,
OF the Government failing supply forage,
such horses and their equpage shall be allowed and paid
whenever the facts shall be by legal and salts
factory evidence, whether oral that such
demncd horse and the equpage tursed quar-
of the army whether receipt therefor WAS
given and produced or not"
To establish claim under this provision the claimant
addnce the evidence of the witnesses under
the head first class of satisfactorily proving that the
property therein described was while in the military SER