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1853–2026 · THE LINE AT ITS RECORD, WITH ITS GAP NAMED IN-FILE
The town's law was kept first by riders, and the succession from them to the present marshal is printed here whole — including the stretch no record reached fills. The constable era. From 1853–54 the Terre Coupee Anti-Horse-Thief Association's riders were "authorized to act as constables for the purposes of the association by a State law" (Chapman) — the township's first enforcement form, a mutual company's riders wearing a constable's authority for one class of crime. The town's own constable and early-marshal succession behind the ordinance record is the line's named gap, GAP-NC3-FIRE-1: settler the town's minute books and the county histories' later editions. The modern marshal line, as dug in the fire and government files and seated here: Baker, marshal to 2011; Roseboom, from 2015; Combs, from 2020; Croymans, from 2021 — hired as a full-time officer on 17 March 2021 by a 4–0 council vote and styled Marshal in the minutes by September 2024, holding the office as of November 2026. His given name carries the set's standing delta (DF-NC-1): the town's minutes give Brent; the state's salary record gives Richard B. (Chief Deputy 2021–2023, Marshal 2024–2025); the claims addendum tests the pair at both settlers and leaves them unmerged, as this section does. The county line above the town: the sheriff of St. Joseph County is the county's officer, seated in South Bend, and his succession belongs to the county's record and that city's build; from this section the line is pointed to, not annexed. The succession therefore stands complete-to-present at the strength of its record: riders, a named gap, four modern marshals, and the present holder — with the shortfall named in-file, as the checklist requires, rather than in a note three files away.
Sources:
- Chapman (1880), pp. 769–770 — the riders' constable authority; read at the page for this section.
- Town council minutes, 17 March 2021 and 10 September 2024 — the hiring and the marshal styling; this history (this section) — the DF-NC-1 test.