And when Lieut. Slaughter returned I reported the case to him, and he immediately cut off the supply of forage for Jones’ private horse, which he had been feeding out of the surplus forage in the quartermaster’s stables. Slaughter was justified, as Jones had taken the stand that public property should not be used for private purposes, but I think it generated an unpleasantness that lasted while I remained at the a post.7
If any one store corn for safe keeping in another person’s house, and any harm happen to the corn in storage, or if the owner of the house open the granary and take some of the corn, or if especially he deny that the corn was stored in his house: then the owner of the corn shall claim his corn before God (on oath), and the owner of the house shall pay its owner for all of the corn that he took.
Nothing Worthy of Note Transpired Today (archive.org) The transcribed journals of Civil War General August Valentine Kautz that detail his daily life and activities during his post at Fort Steilacoom in 1850.
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