Given under our hand this 18th day of August, A.D. 1869. NORTON I." I may be crazy but I am not stupid. That bridge would have meandered aimlessly all over the place from Oakland Point to Goat Island before wandering off to Sausalito and then heading west for thirty miles to the Farallone Islands, a clump of rocks inhabited only by seals and seabirds. Here is what I really said, precisely as it appeared in the San Francisco Pacific Appeal, not in 1869 but in 1872: PROCLAMATION "The following is decreed and ordered to be carried into execution as soon as convenient: That a suspension bridge be built from Oakland Point to Goat Island, and thence to Telegraph Hill; provided such bridge can be built without injury to the navigable waters of the Bay of San Francisco. That the Central Pacific Railroad Company be granted franchises to lay down tracks and run cars from Telegraph Hill and along the city front to Mission Bay. That all deeds of land by the Washington Government since the establishment of our Empire are hereby decreed null and void unless our Imperial signature is first obtained thereto. NORTON I." 12.