United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/17th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 48
Chap. XLVIII.—An Act for the relief of the officers, volunteers, and other persons, engaged in the late campaign against the Seminole Indians.
See the act of May 26, 1824, ch. 187.
Persons engaged in the campaign of 1818, who lost horses in consequence of the United States failing to supply forage, to be paid the value of them.
To be paid also, for loss of necessary horse equipage, or guns lost or left in possession of the United States.
Out of money in the treasury.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Proviso.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That any officer, volunteer, ranger, cavalry, or other persons engaged in the campaign of one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, against the Seminole Indians, who has sustained damage by reason of the loss of any horse or horses, which in consequence of the government of the United States failing to supply sufficient forage, while engaged in said service, died, or were unavoidably abandoned and lost, shall be allowed and paid the value thereof.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said officers, volunteers, and rangers, cavalry or other persons, for the lost of any necessary equipage of said horse or horses, or for any guns lost in said service or which were left in possession of the United States, or of any officer thereof, shall be allowed and paid the value thereof; said claims to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriate: Provided, That, if any payment shall have been made to any officer or soldier aforesaid, for the use and risk, after the death or abandonment of his horse, such amount shall be deducted from the value thereof, unless said officer or solider shall show that he was remounted, in which case the deduction shall only extend to the time such officer or soldier served on foot: And provided also, That, if any payment shall have been made to any officer or soldier on account of clothing, such payment shall be deducted form the value of his horse or accoutrements: And provided further, That no claim shall be allowed under the provisions of this act, until the proper evidence shall have been received by the accounting officers from the company to which the claimants shall have belonged, showing the number of horses lost in said company in manner aforesaid, the time when lost, and the name of the owner.
The President to prescribe the rules and regulations of auditing and settling the claims.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the accounting officer of the Treasury Department shall audit and settle those claims, under such rules and regulations as the President of the United States may prescribe.
Approved, May 4, 1822.