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1913–2003 · THE PREFIX, RE-VERIFIED FIRST-HAND
Lakeville never issued a plate, but every plate its residents carried said where they were from. The Bureau-hosted table "Indiana County Numbers and County Names," read first-hand, prints verbatim: "71 St. Joseph" — the county number in the old county-prefix system, re-verified here at the same strength the sister build reached, and the Bureau's paperwork styles the county's branches "St. Joseph-71" (the 16 February 2021 notice). Under the county-prefix systems the number led the plate: on the 1999–2003 issue, a South Bend–issued plate ran in the 71E class — the county number with its branch letter — and a Walkerton-issued plate carried Walkerton's letter, which no county running has yet extracted (gap G-BMV-3, shared with the sister build's and Walkerton's own shares of the same want; settler: a photographed Walkerton-issued plate of the prefix era). There is no Lakeville branch letter, and none is invented: a Lakeville plate was a 71 plate through somebody else's counter. The prefix systems' ceilings print as ceilings, not registrations: 69,993 combinations under the 1950 scheme, 239,976 under the 1963 scheme. The county-code history carries the county's standing pair with it, printed as the carried county pair, unmerged and not renumbered here (it stands in the sister build's register as its C112): the 1950 county codes print BB through BH in the plate-history source (platehistory / Mike Hicks) and BB through BK and BN in the ShopLicensePlates record — the graphic-issue codes for this county, two ranges, exactly as the county packages carry them. The first registrations ever made for this ground — the 1913-era countywide figures' Union Township share — were not reached in any annual report read (gap G-BMV-1). Since 2012 the plate itself has closed the circle the mail opened: standard plates are made to order and mailed from Indianapolis, and the counter's role is the transaction, not the tin.