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Second Principal Meridian
Derived, not asserted — and Howard's own text disagrees with itself, printed whole. The derivation follows the sister build's method on its constants: the Second Principal Meridian's baseline stands at 38°28′20″ N (Indiana Historical Bureau marker text; the BLM table's 38°28′14″ changes nothing below), and the meridian at 86°27′21″ W to 86°28′ W. The town point, 41.528472° N, stands 3.056 degrees — 210.9 to 211.0 miles — north of the baseline: 35.15 to 35.17 six-mile tiers, inside the thirty-sixth tier, about a mile north of its south line. Easting: the point stands 9.35 to 9.91 miles east of the meridian, inside the second range column east, and in that range's fourth section column — Section 34 in the southern row. The calibrations check the method on ground whose answers are already proven: North Liberty's point returns 35.22 tiers, Township 36 North, matching its dedication's own text; Walkerton's returns 34.45 tiers, Township 35 North, matching Howard's plat of it. Corroboration stands inside Howard himself: Wyatt, east of Lakeville, is platted by him in section 34, Township 36 North, Range 3 East — the same latitude band one range east — and the National Register nomination for the town's high school places its parcel in Section 34, Township 36 North, Range 2 East. Against all of this stands one word in Howard's Lakeville section, in both carriers reached: "township thirty-seven north." A townsite in T37N's southern row would stand some five miles north of this town, up at the 1817 line, outside Union Township as Howard's own formation bounds draw it — his Union contains no T37N ground at all. The conflict prints whole in this build's register; the measured frame is adopted because it is derived from the point, reproduces both calibration towns, and agrees with three of Howard's own four statements. Whether "thirty-seven" is the author's slip, a printer's error, or a modern transcription's is not determinable from the text carriers; the page image and the recorded plat are its settlers. This build's framing expectation of Township 35 North is likewise not borne out — the town stands about a mile north of that tier's north line — and the expectation is printed in the note, unadopted, rather than smoothed away.