These legal documents relate to the case of the United States vs. Neil Campbell for trespass on school lands. Campbell was accused of cutting down and taking trees and timber on November 1, 1859 from land owned by the government to fund public schools in Breckinridge County, west of present-day Emporia in Lyon County, Kansas Territory. Campbell was indicted by the Second District Court in Lecompton during the November term of 1859.
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United States versus Neil Campbell for trespass on school lands - 1