JAMES KING of WILLIAM. ALSO SIGNED BY SAN FRANCISCO NOTABLES JOHN GEARY + BANKER D. SIGNATURES ARE FREE FROM CANCELLATION MARKS THROUGH THE SIGNATURES AND THERE IS NO INK EROSION. ON MAY 14, 1856 , JAMES KING OF WILLIAM EXPOSED THE CRIMINAL RECORD OF JAMES CASEY, ONE OF THE CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO SUPERVISORS, WHO WAS ALSO AN EX CONVICT OF THE NOTORIOUS SING SING PRISON IN NEW YORK. CASEY SHOT KING THE SAME DAY AND KINGS SUPPORTERS RALLIED IN ANGER. THIS WAS THE CATALYST FOR THE FORMING OF THE SECOND 1856 COMMITTEE OF VIGILANCE IN SAN FRANCISCO. THIS SECOND COMMITTEE DIFFERED FROM THE FIRST IN MANY WAYS. IT FOCUSED MORE ON POLITICAL CORRUPTION AND DIRTY POLITICIANS THAN CIVIL CRIME. ITS NUMBERS CLIMBED AS HIGH AS 7000. LIKE THE FIRST COMMITTEE EACH MEMBER WAS ANONYMOUS AND REFERRED TO ONLY BY NUMBER. THE MOST FAMOUS ACTS OF THE 1856 VIGILANTE COMMITTEE WERE THE EXECUTIONS OF JAMES CASEY AND CHARLES CORA. CORA HAD GUNNED DOWN A U. MARSHAL, BUT BECAUSE HE HAD MANY FRIENDS IN OFFICE IT WAS FEARED THAT THE CORRUPT SHERIFF MIGHT FACILITATE HIS ESCAPE. JAMES KING OF WILLIAM ENCOURAGED THE LYNCHING OF THE SHERIFF SHOULD THIS OCCUR. BOTH CORA AND CASEY WERE FOUND GUILTY BY THE VIGILANTE COMMITTEE IN INFORMAL HEARINGS AND PUBLICLY HANGED. PROBABLY THE FINEST AND RAREST EARLY CALIFORNIA AUTHOGRAPH OF ALL! The San Francisco Fire of 1851 (May 34, 1851) was a catastrophic conflagration that destroyed as much as three-quarters of San Francisco. The San Francisco Gov. Archives were burned in the fire of 1906. The fire destroyed most redeemed bonds of the city kept in it’s City Archives. AND YET THIS SINGLE BOND MIRACULOUSLY SURVIVED BOTH DESASTERS! YOU WILL RECEIVE THE BOND PICTURED HERE. WE KNOW OF NO OTHER AND YES, WE FOLLOW AUCTIONS ASSIDUOUSLY ON TWO CONTINENTS. THESE DOCUMENTS WERE CREATED FOR THE PURPOSE OF CERTIFYING AN INVESTMENT. THEY WERE MANUALLY HANDLED, THEY CIRCULATED AND AS LONG AS THEY SERVED THEIR PUPOSE EVERYBODY WAS HAPPY. THEY DID NOT CREATE THESE DOCUMENTS SO THAT WE HAVE ANTIQUES 168 YEARS LATER. THESE DOCUMENTS WERE NOT HANDLED IN A MANNER TO ASSURE US EF CONDITION 168 YEARS LATER. IF YOU EXPECT THAT YOU MAY NEVER GET WHAT YOU WANT. ANY WOODEN STATUE OF SIMILAR AGE WOULD HAVE WOODWORM HOLES. HEIGHT TOP TO BOTTOM OF COUPON: 10.2362. The item “CALIFORNIA VIGILANTE FOUNDER JAMES KING of WILLIAM SIGNED SAN FRANCISCO STOCK” is in sale since Tuesday, November 20, 2018. This item is in the category “Coins & Paper Money\Stocks & Bonds, Scripophily\Government & War Bonds”. The seller is “scripomundo” and is located in Mettlach. This item can be shipped worldwide.