Order Designating Starting Point of Union Pacific Railroad1Jump to section
In pursuance of the provisions of Section 14, of the Act of Congress entitled ``An Act to aid in the construction of a Rail Road and Telegraph Line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, and to secure to the Government the use of the same for Postal,---Military, and other purposes,'' Approved July 1st. 1862, authorizing and directing the President of the United States, to fix the point on the Western boundary of the State of Iowa, from which the Union Pacific Rail Road Company is by said section authorized and required to construct a single line of Rail Road, and Telegraph, upon the most direct and practicable route, subject to the approval of the President of the United States, so as to form a connection with the lines of said Company, at some point on the one hundre[d]th meridian of longitude in said section named: I, Abraham Lincoln President of the United States do, upon the application of the said Company, designate and establish such first above named point, on the Western boundary of the State of Iowa, east of, and opposite to the East line of Section 10, in Township 15, North, of Range 13, East of the sixth principle meridian, in the Territory of Nebraska
Done at the City of Washington this, seventh, day of March, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty four
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
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[1] Copy, DNA RG 46, Senate 38A F6. The original order has not been located. The copy in the Senate files was enclosed with Lincoln's communication to the Senate of March 9, infra. See also Lincoln's order of November 17, 1863, supra.