"We do hereby command that all public spaces be kept clean and free of litter."

"It is our Imperial will and pleasure, that a railroad be built from this city to the Sandwich Islands, for the convenience of our Imperial subjects."

"We do hereby abolish the Republican and Democratic parties of this realm, and do declare them forever suppressed."

"And I do hereby order and direct the representatives of the different States of the Union to assemble in Convention at the Musical Hall, of this city, on the first day of February next, then and there…"

"We do hereby declare the bridge between Oakland and San Francisco to be built, and command the necessary funds to be raised."