Chapter XXXIX. to amend, an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the Payment of Horses or other Property lost and destroyed in the, military Service of the United States,” approved the eighteenth Day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven
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Chap. XXXIX.— An Act to amend, an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the Payment of Horses or other Property lost and destroyed in the, military Service of the United States,” approved the eighteenth Day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven.March 2, 1847.1837, ch. 5. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* ThatThe claims of owners of wagons and teams who have lost horses, &c., provided for. the above-recited act be so amended as to embrace the claims of all owners of wagons or teams, who sustained or shall sustain damage or injury from the loss of any horse, mule, or wagon, cart, boat, sleigh, or harness, while such property was in the military service of the United States either by impressment or contract, and [when] the same has been destroyed or abandoned by the order of the commanding general, the commanding officer, or wagon-master, or otherwise lost or destroyed by unavoidable accident, without any fault or negligence of the owner, and when he was in the line of his duty, such owner shall be allowed and paid the value thereof at the time he entered the service.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* ThatDeductions in auditing and settling accounts. the accounting officers of the treasury, in auditing and settling the claims under this act, and the one to which this is amendatory, shall make no other deductions from the claim, on account of former payments, than for the use, and risk, and forage advanced for the horse actually lost by the claimant, and before he was again remounted, or for clothing to which he was not entitled by law. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* ThatAct of 18th Jan., 1837, ch. 5, and all other acts relating to same subject, continued for two years from 3d March, 1817, &c. an act entitled “An Act to provide for the Payment of Horses and other Property lost in the military Service of the United States,” approved the eighteenth of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, and all other acts or parts of acts relating to the same subject, be, and the same are hereby, continued in force for the period of two years from and after the third day of March, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, and nothing contained in any former act shall be so construed by the accounting officers of the treasury as to prevent the presentation and adjustment of all the claims the payment of which is provided for by any of these several acts, within the time above specified.
Approved, March 2, 1847.