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dian shall be allowed pay therefor, on making satisfactory proof, as in other cases, and the further proof that he is entitled thereto by having furnished the same.

SEC. 6. That in all instances where any person other than a minor has been, or shall be, engaged in the military service aforesaid, and has been, or shall be, provided with a horse or equipments, or with military accoutrements, by any person, the owner thereof, who has risked, or shall take the risk of such horse, equipments, or military accoutrements on himself, and the same has been, or shall be, lost, captured, destroyed, or abandoned in the manner before mentioned, such owner shall be allowed pay therefor, on making satisfactory proof, as in other cases, and the further proof that he is entitled thereto, by having furnished the same, and having taken the risk on himself.

SEC. 7. That in all cases where horses have been condemned by a board of officers, on account of their unfitness for service, in consequence of the government failing to supply forage, all such horses and their equipage shall be allowed and paid for, whenever the facts shall be proven, by legal and satisfactory evidence, whether oral or written, that such condemned horse and the equipage was turned over to a quartermaster of the army, whether any receipt therefor was given and produced or

not.

[Approved, March 3, 1849.]

[By resolution 12, 2 March, 1849, vol. 9, p. 418, the Secretary of War authorized to furnish arms and ammunition to emigrants to California. Provisoes.]

RESOLUTION 14.-Approved, March 3, 1849.-Vol. 9, p. 418.

Joint Resolution relative to evidence in applications for pensions by widows of deceased soldiers, under the act of July twenty-first, eighteen hundred and forty-eight.

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`tain, damage by the death or abandonment and loss of any such horse, mule, or ox, while in the service aforesaid, 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 lose, or has had or shall have destroyed by unavoidable accident, any horse, mule, ox, wagon, cart, boat, sleigh, harness, while such property was in the service aforesaid, shall be allowed and paid the value thereof at the time he entered the service: Provided, It shall appear that such loss, capture, abandonment, destruction, or death, was without any fault or negligence on the part of the owner of the property, and while it was actually employed in the service of the United States.

SEC. 3. That the claims provided for under this act shall be adjusted by the third auditor, under such rules as shall be prescribed by the secretary of war, under the direction or with the assent of the President of the United States, as well in regard to 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 opinion of the President shall be best calculated to obtain the object of this act, paying a due regard as well to the claims of individuals' justice as to the interest of the United States; which rules and regulations shall be published for four weeks in sah newspapers, in which the laws of the United States are pah lished, as the secretary of war shall direct.

SEC. 4. That in all adjudications of said auditor upon the claims above mentioned, whether such judgments be in favor of or adverse to the claim, shall be entered in a book provided by him for that purpose, and under his direction; and wher such judgments shall be in favor of such claim, the claimant or his legal representative shall be entitled to the amount there f upon the production of a copy thereof, certified by said auditor, at the treasury of the United States.

SEC. 5. That in all instances where any minor has been, or shall be, engaged in the military service of the United States. and was, or shall be, provided with a horse or equipments, or with military accoutrement, by his parent or guardian, and has died, or shall die, without paying for said property, and the same has been, or shall be, lost, captured, destroyed, or abandoned in the manner before mentioned, said parent or guar

dian shall be allowed pay therefor, on making satisfactory proof, as in other cases, and the further proof that he is entitled thereto by having furnished the same.

SEC. 6. That in all instances where any person other than a minor has been, or shall be, engaged in the military service aforesaid, and has been, or shall be, provided with a horse or equipments, or with military accoutrements, by any person, the owner thereof, who has risked, or shall take the risk of such horse, equipments, or military accoutrements on himself, and the same has been, or shall be, lost, captured, destroyed, or abandoned in the manner before mentioned, such owner shall be allowed pay therefor, on making satisfactory proof, as in other cases, and the further proof that he is entitled thereto, by having furnished the same, and having taken the risk on himself.

SEC. 7. That in all cases where horses have been condemned by a board of officers, on account of their unfitness for service, in consequence of the government failing to supply forage, all such horses and their equipage shall be allowed and paid for, whenever the facts shall be proven, by legal and satisfactory evidence, whether oral or written, that such condemned horse and the equipage was turned over to a quartermaster of the army, whether any receipt therefor was given and produced or

not.

[Approved, March 3, 1849.]

[By resolution 12, 2 March, 1849, vol. 9, p. 418, the Secretary of War authorized to furnish arms and ammunition to emigrants to California. Provisoes.]

RESOLUTION 14.-Approved, March 3, 1849.-Vol. 9, p. 418. Joint Resolution relative to evidence in applications for pensions by widows of deceased soldiers, under the act of July twenty-first, eighteen hundred and forty-eight. That in all applications for pensions by the widows of deceased soldiers under the act of July twenty-first, eighteen hundred and forty-eight,' the returns on the rolls of the dis1 Chapter 108.

ease of which the soldier died, and the official opinion of the surgeon-general founded thereon, that from the nature of the disease it was contracted while the soldier was in the line of his duty, shall be considered satisfactory evidence thereof, without the proof now required at the Pension Office; and that it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Pensions, in all cases of application for pensions under said act, to apply to the proper officers for said evidence, without requiring the applicant to furnish the same.

[Approved, March 3, 1849.]

CHAPTER 20.-Approved, June 17, 1850.-Vol. 9, p. 438.

An Act to increase the rank and file of the army, and to encourage enlistments.

1. Each company of artillery to consist of a specified number. 2. Increase of privates by voluntary enlistment, authorized. Proviso.

That hereafter each company of artillery designated and serving as light artillery shall, during such service, consist of the commissioned officers as now provided by law, and of four sergeants, four corporals, two artificers, two musicians, and sixtyfour privates.

SEC. 2. That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized, by voluntary enlistment, to increase the number of privates in each or any of the companies of the existing regiments of the army, at present serving, or which may hereafter serve, at the several military posts on the western frontier, and at remote and distant stations, to any number not exceeding seventy-four, and to cause such portions of the army as may, by law, be serving on foot, to be properly equipped and mounted whenever, in his opinion, the exigency of the public service may require the same: Provided, That the said enlistments shall be for the term of five years, unless sooner discharged.

See 2 March, 1821, chap. 13, and 3 March, 1847, chap. 61.

2 This has been done in the companies serving in Texas, California, New Mexico, and Oregon, and some western forts. See notes to Army Register.

SEC. 3. That whenever enlistments are made at, or in the vicinity of, the said military posts, and remote and distant stations, a bounty equal in amount to the cost of transporting and subsisting a soldier from the principal recruiting depot in the harbor of New York, to the place of such enlistment, be, and the same is hereby, allowed to each recruit so enlisted, to be paid in unequal instalments at the end of each year's service, so that the several amounts shall annually increase, and the largest be paid at the expiration of each enlistment.

[Approved, June 17, 1850.]

CHAPTER 54.-Approved, September 16, 1850.-Vol. 9, p. 459.

An Act making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-one.

SEC. 1. For forage of officers' horses, &c. Provided, That hereafter, in lieu of the pay proper, ordinary rations, forage, and servants heretofore received under the provisions of the act of April 12, [29,] 1812, the professors of engineers, philosophy, mathematics, ethics, and chemistry shall be entitled to receive $2000 dollars, each, per annum; and the professors of drawing and French, $1500, each, per annum.

CHAPTER 70.-Approved, September 26, 1850.-Vol. 9, p. 469.

An Act to increase the commissariat of the United States army.

That there be added to the subsistence department four commissaries of subsistence, with the rank of captain, to be taken from the line of the army.

SEC. 2. That the senior aid-de-camp of the major-general commanding the army may be taken from the captains or majors of the army, and shall be allowed the pay and emoluments of a major of cavalry.

1 This sec. repealed by sec. 9, chap. 42, 3 August, 1861.

2 Chap. 72; and see chap. 22, 3 March, 1851, which is a substitute for this section. The compensation of all professors is now made $2240 per annum.

3 See 2 March, 1821, chap. 13, sec. 8, and note; for further increase, see sec. 2, chap. 42. 3 August, 1861.

4 See 12 April, 1808, chap. 43, sec. 4, and 21 Feb. 1857, sec. 1.

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