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Description: Medal of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1856. "Organized 9th June 1851. Reorganized 14th May 1856". on back: "Be Just and Fear Not", "Fiat Justitia Ruat Coelum" (Let there be justice though the sky fall). From the collection of Mr. Charles B. Turril
Title: Committee of Vigilance medallion
Credit: Mary Floyd Williams, History of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851: A Study of Social Control on the California Frontier in the Days of the Gold Rush. University of California Press, 1921
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