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