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Under the auspices of the Emperor Norton Memorial Association, the San Francisco municipal band played a selection, officers of native son organizations made appropriate remarks, the Olympic Club sang a song. A three-gun salute was fired by a battalion of the 159th U. S. Infantry, taps were bugled by an American Legion post. Provided by sentimental citizens with the honors his dust had waited 54 years to receive, the giddy monarch rested at last beneath a shaft marked:
NORTON I
EMPEROR OF THE UNITED STATES AND
PROTECTOR OF MEXICO