Show I constitution OF ME rne bosn arten OP OF VIGILANCE SAN FRANCISCO MAT MAY 15 whereas it has become apparent to the citizens i of san francisco that there is no security for ilfe lita and property either elther under the regulations ty as 88 it at present exists or under the tile laws hs lis now administered and that by the ibe association together I 1 of bad our ballot boxes have bave 1 ave be been en sto sto ilen lien and others substituted or stuff d with mith votes that thai were never polled and thereby our ele eie election vilon nullified our gur dearest rights violated and other j method left by which the will of the people can be j manifested i therefore ho ilio citizens whose names arelie reu ni to do unite themselves into an I 1 for maintenance of the peace and good 1 I so j clety the ilie prevention und and punishment of crime tiie ilia preservation of our lives and property and to insure that our ballot boxes shat shall hereafter express the actual and r ged wui 01 of the majority of our citizens and we bind ind ourselves each unto if tho the other oilier by a solemn oath to do and perform every just ana lawful act for I 1 the I 1 i erh elb maintenance a 1 ante naile nalle e of law and arid order and to sustain the laws when faithfully and properly administered but we are determined that no cheif burglar incendiary ballot bv bax sl stuffer bluffer or other disturber disturb ir of the tiie pence shall escape punishment either by the tile quibbles of the tile law the tile insecurity of prisons the tile carelessness or corruption of the police or a laxity of ghose who wiio pretend to administer justice ju stice slice and to secure the objects of thib tins association we do hereby agree Is 1 that the name and style of this association shall be tho the committee of vigilance for ilie the protection of f the ballot box the lives liberty and property of the citizens ulio ullo residents odthe of the city of san Frau cAico calco 2 that there shall be rooms for the deliberations orthe committee Com oom at which there shall be one or more members of the tile committee appointed for that purpose in constant attends attendance nee bee at all hours of the day and night to receive the report of j aily any men member iber of the association or of any other person on or persons whatsoever of any aa act of vio i lence tence done to the person or property of any citizen I 1 of san franc francisco francsco and if ifie ia the judgment of the member or members of committee the present it be such an act as justifies or demands the later interference of if his Comm lUeel either in in aiding in the execution of the laws or the prompt and summary punishment of the offe offender rider Lider the committee hail hall shall be at once assembled for the purpose of taking tak tah taking ing lug such action as a majority assembled I 1 shall shail determine upon 1 3 that it shall be the duty of any member or members of the committee on dul dal duty y at the committee rooms whenever wiit wilt never a gen general e ral rat assemblage of the committee is deemed necessary to cause a cair call to bo be made in such a manner as shall be found advisable 4 that whereas an executive committee has bas been chosen by the general committee it shall be the tile duty of the said executive committee to deliberate and act upon all important questions and decide upon the llie measures inea bures necessary to carry out the objects for which this association as was formed 5 that whereas he reas this comm committee has bas absen organized into subdivisions the executive committee powers to call when they shall so determine upon apon a aBoard board of or delegates ta 0 consist of three rep representatives rese uta nta tives from euch each division to confer with them upon matters of vital importance i 6 that a ail all I 1 mailers of detail and government shall be embraced in a code of bylaws by laws I 1 7 that the action orthis of this body shall be entirely and rigorously free from all consideration of or participation in the merits or demerits or opinions or acts of any and at all ali I 1 sects political parties or sectional divisions in the community and every clase clasa of orderly citizens of whatever sect party or nativity may become members orthis of this body no dimus dinus discussion slon sion of poli political ticul sectional or s subjects phail shail bea Bowed in the rooms of odthe the association 8 that no used before this I 1 be punished until after alter fair far and aud imp trial and conviction 9 that whenever the tila general committee have assembled for deliberation the decision de cislon of the majority upon any question that may bv submitted to them bythe by the executive committee behind be binding ilig 1119 upon the whole provided nevertheless that when the delegates are deliberating upon the llie punishment to be awarded to any criminals no vote inflicting the death penalty shall be bin binding dicig u unless passed by hwo two thirds ol 01 those presen present t and entitled to vote ia that all good citizens cithens shall lie be eligi eligible ble bla for admission to this body under such regulations as us may be by a committee on qualifications aud if any unworthy person gain admission they shall on due proof be expelled and believing ourselves to be executors of the will ol 01 i the majority of pur Oti citizens zens we e do pledge our sacred lionor honor to defend and sustain each other in carrying out the lle ile lie determined action of this committee at the hazard of our lives and our fortunes non HON P T herbert the murder recently committed in 11 washington city by the above noted blackleg was not the first act of the kind in which lie was a bloody participant A few years ago this same mr herbert resided in texas a few miles from the town of richmond on the brames river A quarrel occurred be between tweet i two gentlemen named colin cocke and jonathan Joni jont thin D waters waters resolved to murder cocke and for that purpose started over to ins lils house hoube 1 ly lohn jolin waters and the member mer ilber riber 0 ol 01 coi Cor gress grees they tuey were all armed av anh ii h double shot guns and revolvers re acing the tile house it was agreed thet herbert and wid juhn julin waters W aters should rush lik iii and seize cocke and prevent him from ching his arms as he was nota noted for behig a brave man and a most desperate one they accordingly knocked at the door and when it vt was as opened they rushed din in seized thair th ir victim and held him securely sec irely until waters could take alm aim they then released sed him film and watt rb gired fired coche cocke was not killed the fi first rbt disc discharge large but leaped over the tho bed and was about seizing his ins oi weapons vii vil ns wien when je e was shot shutdown down bythe bytho by of t barril barrel in the death he exclaimed give me roe some soine water murderer drew hig his revolver and deliberately shot four balls Ws into his tits dead d iad ead body these wre ire are facts and are ate v touched 0 ached for or b by y a gentleman now losan bosan fratich francisco to w ho haard heard the testimony manyin in the case ease such wa the to llie tile itte lete late I 1 dyet washington may alay god the lofty mount mountains aine alre of california into t tie tle e beair kihe send bend such ariet arket anether h er representative to congress S F true june 10 |