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ITEM 4 · THE EXCLUSION TEST REQUIRES A DEED-LEVEL READ THIS SEAT DID NOT PERFORM
The checklist's hardest item asks whether the town's plats and deeds carried exclusion covenants — the racial and religious restrictions the twentieth century wrote into American ground — and it is an item this build answers with a named gap, by design. The test's design is stated so the record of its non-performance is precise: the instruments are the Recorder's plat books and deed books for Walkerton's additions (the original plat, Thrall's and Stokes's and the later additions), read deed by deed for restrictive language, together with any covenant recorded against the postwar additions; the county's recorder holds them, and the read is a courthouse-and-browser task of hours, not an excerpt this text seat can honestly sample. No covenant is asserted present, and — the discipline that matters more — none is asserted absent: the few deeds and plats visible in the records this build reached (the cemetery and church deeds of the banked files) carry no such language in their excerpts, which proves nothing about the additions' deeds as a class. The item therefore closes NAMED GAP, settler: the St. Joseph County Recorder's plat and deed books for the Walkerton additions, read whole for restrictive covenants — and the gap is printed in the run note among the run's named gaps, so the test stands on the town's tab until a runner sits down with the books.
Principal sources: the test's design against the Recorder's record classes; the banked files' deed excerpts (no covenant language in the excerpts reached — expressly not generalized).