1864 Executive Order of the President fixing the point of commencement of the Pacific Railroad Original Document The long standing link to the 1864 Executive Order of the President fixing the point of commencement of the Pacific Railroad has been restored This original link which had been in place since August 18 2008 provides direct access to a searchable verbatim transcription made directly from an original 1864 U S Government produced printing of Senate Ex Doc No 27 38th Congress 1st Session The link which had been recently substituted for it is not to a verifiable original document but to a 778 page pdf of a 1907 commercially published volume The Century Co New York containing unsourced unverified third party transcriptions of many hundreds of Lincoln s speeches letters state papers and miscellaneous writings made and printed 43 years after the fact which a reader then has to then search through on his her own in order to find the the the text of the unsourced 1907 commercial transcription