United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/27th Congress/3rd Session/Chapter 103
Chap. CIII.—An Act further to continue in force the act for the payment of horses and other property lost in the military service of the United States.
Act of Jan. 18, 1837, ch. 5.
Act of Aug. 23, 1842, ch. 185.
Act of 18th Jan. 1837, continued for two years.
Proviso.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act entitled “An act to provide for the payment of horses and other property lost in the military service of the United States,” approved on the eighteenth day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, and which has been continued in force until the end of the present session of Congress, be, and the same is hereby, continued in force for two years from and after the end of the present session of Congress: Provided, That at the end of the last aforesaid term of two years, all claims intended to be provided for by said act, shall be forever barred and irrecoverable before any tribunal whatever:Proviso. Provided further, That in making proof of the loss of a horse, under the provisions of the aforesaid act, for want of forage, the additional proof of hard service connected therewith, shall not be construed to invalidate the proof of such loss by reason of the failure of the Government to furnish forage, the proof or want of forage being satisfactory.
Approved, March 3, 1843.