Cantua v. United States

This is a claim for property consisting of horses, cattle, guns, etc., valued at $3,661.50, taken in the year 1846, during the war between the United States and Mexico, from the ranch of Vincente Cantua, in Montgomery County, upper California, then a part of the territory of Mexico, by and for the use of the troops of the United States under the command of Col. John C. Fremont.

The claim was originally presented to a board of officers appointed under an act of Congress passed August 31, 1852 (10 Stat. L., 105). Section 6 of said act provides that:

“ The Secretary of War is authorized and…