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A closing line for the land account — by a named date, the map is private — cannot be drawn from the record this build has reached, and this entry prints that plainly rather than borrowing a date. The school section's alienation is documented lot by lot in the plat and deed record, but no instrument in the county histories, and no summary in the land fragment's records article, totals the section's sales to a completion date or states what, if anything, of the reserved classes remained in public hands at any named year. The swamp lands' township account stands open in the state selection lists, as the reserved-sections entry above states, and a closing line drawn before that account is read would be a guess wearing a date. The records that would settle the line are named: the La Porte land-office tract books and the Bureau of Land Management's General Land Office records for Penn Township, which carry each parcel's entry and patent; the school commissioner's lot-sale records for Section 16; and the state's swamp-land tract records at the Indiana State Archives. Until those are read parcel by parcel, the land account closes the way this entry leaves it: the townsite bought entire in 1833 and sold as a town, the wet ground granted to the state and drained under its acts, and the final unalienated remainder — if any existed — uncounted in the record reached.