Lynn Korwatch located on top of Telegraph Hill. George F. Sweeney and Theodore F. Baugh were the two individuals to present the idea of a wooden semaphore on top of Telegraph Hill. A semaphore is a system in which one uses two flags or poles and sends signals in an alphabetic code. Sweeney and Baugh expanded their system by placing a signal station on Point Lobos, which is located 20–30 miles from port in San Francisco. The reasoning behind this was that there was high demand from people wanting to know when the ships were arriving at an earlier time so that
An act to regulate the time and manner of administering certain oaths a Representative administers the oath to the Speaker, who then does the same to the other members. State and other federal officials were to take the same oath, administered by someone to be authorized by a later law. Parts of the statute remain in Title 2, Sections , , and , and Title 4, and , of the United States Code. An act to regulate the time and manner of administering certain oaths An Act to regulate the Time and Manner of administering certain Oaths was the first law passed by the Congress assembled after the ratification of the U.S.