But using a congressional facility would have required the source to illegally transport the documents, Langer told The Huffington Post. .
Archives staff members recommended that the commissioners not approve the plan, citing concerns about the lack of a fire suppression system in the Alamo as well as Mr. Patterson's desire to transport the document during the day with as much fanfare and news coverage as possible.
The state's land commissioner, Jerry Patterson, has asked the archives commission for permission to transport the document from Austin to San Antonio and display it to the public beginning in late February as part of the 177th anniversary of the battle at the Alamo.
Discussing trends in transport, the document supporting the plan heralded a future in which buses might glide around the capital with no drivers – there are currently 22,500 of them – a generation after conductors largely disappeared across most of London's bus routes.
Rock Dove Couriers, founded four years ago, has profited largely from transporting legal documents.
In the 1980s, the fastest way to transport financial documents and news film between the two most important cities in the world was as checked baggage on Concorde.
E-mail's inventors weren't necessarily thinking about the medium's less evident advantages -- that it makes time-zone problems evaporate, or that it can be the virtual sherpa for transporting documents, photos and video clips.
The move has been criticised by Ms Saunders, who said using "high-powered limousines to transport paper documents is the height of wastefulness and an affront to the taxpayer".
The idea was, essentially, to transport documents in the form of unalterable E-mail attachments.
They said trucks have been seen in the last 48 hours at the cordoned off entrance of several buildings, apparently transporting documents and light weapons.
