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1913 – EARLY 1920s · THE COURSE THIS TOWN ACTUALLY USED
For its first motor decade, Lakeville's licensing ran through the post office and the notary's seal — the state frame at pointer size, the town's course at its own. Indiana's first state plates (1913) were issued centrally: an owner applied to the Secretary of State and the plates came by mail. In December 1928 the state-level warning that defines the era's local channel was issued by the state automobile department's head (Rhoads): applications handled by notaries public who charged more than the lawful fee drew state attention — the notary channel was real, statewide, and regulated, and it is the channel a town with no branch used.G-BMV-6; settlers: the town paper and the county notary commissions). The 1943 Indianapolis Times item that proposed moving "outlying branches" business to township trustees proves the tier existed in the system's design and is printed, in the sister build, as tier evidence only — never as evidence that any trustee here held a desk; no Lakeville trustee is shown holding one, and none is claimed. Department branches at the county seat follow in the early 1920s at the strength the Indiana leg reached; from that point the town's course is the counters table below.
Principal sources: the Indiana leg's institutional record (pointer); the banked Indiana Motor Vehicle Department record (Rhoads warning, December 1928); Indianapolis Times