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[Certificat of membership in] Committee of Vigilance of San Francisco, reorganized 15th May 1856 for the mutual protection of life & property [issued to Alfred C. Wait, No. 756; and signed by Wm. T. Coleman, Pres., Isaac Bluxome, Jr., Sec. Wm. Meyer, Dy. Treas.; countersigned, Charles Doane, Grand Marshall. With official embossed seal of the Committee.]
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San Francisco Committee of Vigilance records
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