License Branch: Not Found and Still Open

WHAT WAS TESTED, WHAT STANDS OPEN, AND ITS SETTLERS

Tested negative, each at its stated strength: a kiosk or Connect presence in Lakeville (no place record; the town site silent; the 2024 report's new-kiosk record closed); a travelling examiner or State Police exam post in town (search strength); a Lakeville patronage holder, appointment, fee stream or branch fight (search strength — the town held no post to fight over); and any branch, part-time agency, department desk, or second or satellite seat under any name, in any era (the verdict article's five classes). Named gaps carried forward: G-BMV-1, the first registrations for this ground (settlers: the Secretary of State's and Bureau's annual reports); G-BMV-2, the county patronage roster, Lakeville's share of the sibling GAP-BMV-2 class (settlers: county party records, Tribune appointment coverage); G-BMV-3, Walkerton's branch letter (shared with Walkerton's and the sister build's shares; settler: a photographed Walkerton-issued plate of the prefix era); G-BMV-4, the later Polk directories of the 1920s–1960s unswept for this town — the completing settler for the directory limb of the verdict; G-BMV-5G-BMV-6, a named Lakeville notary in the plate channel (settlers: the town paper and the county notary commissions); G-BMV-7, first licenses and examiner traces at documented size (settlers: the town paper's file, State Police post records); G-BMV-8, any Lakeville voice in the 2021 Walkerton consolidation hearing (companion to the sister builds' shares of the same want; settler: the hearing record) — carried as a named gap, not searched as a negative. The distance residue, unnumbered: road distances from Lakeville to the Walkerton and Plymouth counters were not verified from a routing carrier; the straight-line figures in the counters article are computed and labelled, and the framing figures stand as framing until a routing read settles them. No image candidates are banked for this section: there is no branch here to photograph, the library is expressly NOT a candidate (photographing it for this section would repeat the very confusion the verdict article exists to prevent), and Walkerton's building candidacy belongs to Walkerton's leg, pointed to only.