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The seat-of-government argument and the refused referendum: no counts stand in the Record — NAMED GAP, settler named

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ROW 605 · LEG 90 ITEM 7 · GAP NAMED NOVEMBER 2026

This row demands numbers: an argument over where the town's government sits, and a referendum the voters refused, each with vote counts from the record. The seat half is thinner than the pattern supposes: the town hall sits at 850 Lincolnway West on Government's record, and no rival-seat argument — no proposal to move the hall, seat the town elsewhere, or dissolve the seat into the township — is documented in any source reached. The referendum half collides with a gap the government leg already owns: Government's election-machinery article prints the town's own returns as missing, under GAP-OSGOV-5. A refused referendum whose canvass was never reached cannot be printed with counts, and printing it without counts would fail this section's first test. No referendum — refused or carried — seated in the town is documented in the open record reached in this section, on any subject.

Closure: NAMED GAP — settler, named in-article: the town minute and ordinance books for any seat or referendum proposal, and the St. Joseph County Clerk's canvasses for the counts, the same settler line as GAP-OSGOV-5 for the returns themselves. The gap is a records gap, not a finding that no vote ever occurred.

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Source: The seat-of-government argument and the refused referendum: no counts stand in the Record — NAMED GAP, settler named, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/osceola/controversies/row-605-the-seat-of-government-argument-and-the/