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Univ. of California, Berkeley Press [Published Date: 1911] Publications of the Academy of Pacific Coast History, Vol. 2, No. 2. Pamphlet, 19 pp.
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In very good condition. Brown paper pamphlet has light bumping and fading around the edges. Binding tight (staple bound). Pages clean and unmarked. NOT ex-library. Includes a facsimile copy of one page from the list. The Committee of Vigilance of San Francisco was an organization formed by citizens to administer justice, operating separately from the government. The first committee was formed in 1851 to protect the citizens of San Francisco from the "organized band of villains who are determined to destroy the city," as a newspaper of the time claimed. Sam Brannan was the leader of the first Committee of Vigilance. This militia group included its own "law-enforcement" force, and its justice system - parallel to the State one - used trials and punishments that included lynching, whipping, and deportation. This Volume (II) includes the "List of Names Approved by the Committee on Qualification." [From Introduction] The manuscript consists of sixteen pages, 7 7/8 x 12 5/8 inches, forming part of a book the remainder of which is blank. . . The book is bound in paper-covered boards and has on the front cover a printed label bearing the words, Committee of vigilance. . . In the original, the names of the persons approved by the Committee on Qualification and those of the proposers are, on some pages, divided by a rule made with a pen; on other pages, the rule is made with a pencil, and on still others, it is omitted. In rendering the document into print, the signatures appended to the Constitution and the transcribed list designated Book of Names have been used for purposes of comparison. The names of persons approved by the Committee on Qualification, that appear in those documents - which circumstance declares their owners to have been regularly enrolled as members of the Committee of Vigilance - have been printed in italics, and the numbers that were assigned to them for purposes of identification are supplied in brackets.