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G-FR-3 settled on its transcription limb; C2 sharpened to a print error
The printed page of 1907 reads "thirty-seven north" — the word was never the transcription's. The framing pass printed Howard's Lakeville plat sentence from a transcription whose carrier warns its text is machine-generated, and carried the numeral as a three-way question — Howard's word, a printer's, or the transcription's — with the Archive.org page image as settler. The image has now been read first-hand (Howard, vol. 1, leaf 363, printed p. 314), and it reads, in full: "The town of Lakeville is situated in Union township, on either side of the Michigan road; and is located on the east half of the southeast quarter of section thirty-four, and the west part of the southwest quarter of section thirty-five, in township thirty-seven north, range two east." Every character is clear; there is no overprint. The transcription limb is therefore eliminated: the error stands in the printed book itself, and whether it originated with Howard's manuscript or his compositor the page does not distinguish — that residue stands named, undecidable from the page. Against the printed "thirty-seven" the measured frame of the framing pass (T36N R2E, calibrated so it reproduces the sister towns' proven townships exactly) now stands with four page-image attestations of the 1875 Atlas behind it, each read first-hand: the plat title "Town 36. N. R. 2. E." (p. 40), the town list's "T. 36 N." (p. 10), the Union map's margin "Town 36 North" (pp. 62–63), and the county sectional map's T. 36 N. tier (p. 2). The same page image corrects a compression the earlier notes carried: Howard's sentence makes the original plat, not Coquillard's Addition, the subject of the 1859 recording — "The original plat was itself afterwards placed on record December 23, 1859; but again in connection with the Coquillard addition" — the addition's own date in Howard being its platting, 18 August 1857. The fragments of the earlier passes print the course with the subjects straight; the correction is recorded against the notes' phrasing. And a trap on the same page is flagged so it is not sprung by a later reader: the top of p. 314 closes Howard's North Liberty section with a quoted plat note ending "Surveyed by Tyra W. Bray, St. Joseph County Surveyor" — Bray is the sister town's surveyor, and p. 314 gives no dedicator or surveyor for Lakeville at all.