Pacific Appeal, Volume VIII, Number 45, 15 June 1872 — Proclamation. [ARTICLE]

Proclamation. Believing Oakland Point to be the proper and only point of communication from this side of the Bay to San Francisco, we, Norton I, Dei gratia Emperor of the United State and Protector of Mexico, do hereby command the cities of Oakland and San Francisco to make an appropriotion for paying the expense of a survey to determine the practicability of a tunnel under water; and if found practicable, that said tunnel be forthwith built for a railroad communication. Norton I. Given at Brooklyn the 12th day of May, 1812. [Imperial seal.] Edmonia Lewis, the American sculptress, of African descent at Rome, is making her fortune on the orders received from English lovers of art.

Believing Oakland Point to be the proper and only point of communication from this side of the Bay to San Francisco, we, Norton I, Dei gratia Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico, do hereby command the cities of Oakland and San Francisco to make an appropriation for paying the expense of a survey to determine the practicability of a tunnel under water; and if found practicable, that said tunnel be forthwith built for a railroad communication. NORTON I. Given at Brooklyn the 12th day of May, 1812. [Imperial seal.]

Edmosia Lewis, the American, sculptress, of African descent at Rome, is making her fortune on the orders received from English lovers of art.