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AUDIT ROW #396 · THE FOUR CLASSES PRINTED AS TESTED ROWS · NOVEMBER 2026
The checklist's closing row sweeps four classes, and on this ground each closes as a tested row: unrest — no racial disturbance seated in Walkerton stands in the record reached; firsts — no Black officeholder, graduate, or honoree "first" stands in the records reached at full strength (the school and office records are the settlers for a first below press strength); press — no Black newspaper, column, or correspondent seated here stands in the record; the town paper's treatment of its smallest community is a file question under the Independent settler already named; displacement — zero, as a finding, following the malls leg's renewal test (no urban-renewal scheme existed on this ground to displace anyone). The reparatory accounting the row asks for is then short because the record is: nothing in Walkerton's built record presents a named Black claimant, a documented taking, or an acknowledged wrong with a living remedy — the town's racial history is a history of absence, produced by the state law of 1851, the agricultural township's labour market, and a century's demographics, rather than by documented local acts against documented local people. That sentence is printed as this section's close, dated November 2026, at the strength of the tests above it — and with its limit stated: the manuscript census, the Recorder's plat books, and the Independent's files, all named as settlers in this section, are where a different sentence would come from if one exists.
Principal sources: the row tests (articles above); the malls addendum (the renewal test), cross-referenced for the displacement row; settlers as named in the articles above.