These legal documents relate to the case of the United States vs. Samuel Crane, Samuel J. Jones, and Ezra Pierce for breech of bond. Crane signed a bond with Jones and Pierce as secondary parties on January 14, 1856 to act as postmaster of Franklin (part of present-day Lawrence), Douglas County, Kansas Territory. On May 31, 1857, District Attorney Alson C. Davis filed a petition for a fine of seventy-eight dollars and one cent, citing that Crane failed to execute the duties of postmaster.
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United States versus Samuel Crane et al. for breech of bond - 7