What a Plat Can Prove

ROW #665 · BRANCH ITEM 2 · THE INSTRUMENT, RESTATED

The register's charge was precise: the substantial plats were gathered in one survey-size roster and never given, one by one, their founding plat, builder, street plan, character and present state. This addendum works the roster plat by plat — twenty-five named plats in the articles below — from the parcel file the O-5 runner already pulled. Each article therefore holds, at proven strength: the plat's parcel count in November 2026 (its present state as a living legal description, the only “present state” a plat record can prove), its ground and street equations where the descriptions or the banked legs carry them, and its character as the town's geography gives it. Where the parcel record gives no plat date and no subdivider — and the banked Neighborhoods leg said so plainly: “Plat dates, where the parcel record itself gives none, are the Recorder's plat books' to settle, and this section asserts none it does not hold” — the article names the St. Joseph County Recorder's plat books as that plat's settler instead of inventing a date. That is not a shrug repeated twenty-five times; it is the difference between a plat article and a plat romance, and the register's own settling source for this row is those plat books, worked against this section's roster when the Recorder's pull is made.

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2. O-5 workdir (~/workspace/osceola-o5/) — parcels-in-town.json; plats-count.json / plats-count2.json; research/ground.md. Owner fields never pulled, in O-5 or in this section.
3. Audit-Depth Register, Neighborhoods branch item 2 — the charge and its settling source (County Recorder's plat books and the parcel layer already pulled).