From our collection, here is the bond of Officer Alonso E Cleary signed on April 20, 1872.
Note that the city name of St. Anthony has been crossed out and replaced with the city name of Minneapolis.
St. Anthony was the name of Minneapolis’s older twin city, across from downtown Minneapolis on the Mississippi River’s East Bank.
Minneapolis and St. Anthony merged in 1872 and, in the stationery used for Officer Cleary’s bond, you can see evidence of the transition underway.