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AUDIT ROW #413 · THE RUN'S ONE L-SIZE ROW · THE MINUTE BOOKS ARE THE SETTLER, AND WHY
The checklist asks for the succession of the town's councils and clerk-treasurers from incorporation to the modern era — the people who held the seats, in order — and the position of the record is the one Notable People's residue already states: that succession does not stand in any source reached, and this section's work is to say exactly how far the reachable record goes and exactly what settles the rest. Begin with what the ground rules are. The town incorporated by court order of June 8, 1877 (after the refused petition of 1873 and the lapsed one of 1876), and its officers from that day were recorded where Indiana towns record them: in the town's minute books and election returns, kept by the clerk. Those books are the settler for the whole 1877–1989 run, and no pass of this build has read them; every printed succession this section could offer without them would be a directory of snapshots pretending to be a line. What is reachable short of the books is worth stating precisely, because it is more than nothing: the State Board of Accounts' published audit reports for the town carry schedules of officials — the clerk-treasurer and council of record for each audited period, with bond amounts — and Indiana's Gateway reporting continues the same series into the modern era, so a substantial partial succession, period by period from the audit era forward, is recoverable from published sources by a future pass without archive access. The canvass points the build already holds (the government leg's named officers at their dates; the founders leg's bank-adjacent officeholders) slot into that frame where they fall and are pointed to, not re-rolled. The nineteenth century's line, by contrast — councils of the 1870s–1900s — exists only in the minute books and the county histories' incidental mentions, and for those decades the books are not a shortcut but the only road. The row therefore closes as a named gap with a two-part settler stated exactly: the town's minute books (the whole line, 1877–1989), and the SBOA/Gateway official schedules (the published partial, audit era forward). It is the run's largest row and it closes largest: with the reach mapped, the settler named to the shelf, and not one invented name in a sequence where an invented name would corrupt every name around it.
Principal sources: Notable People residue item (6) (the standing position, restated); Government (incorporation, June 8, 1877; the canvass points), pointed to; settlers named — Town of Walkerton minute books; State Board of Accounts audit schedules of officials and Indiana Gateway reports (the published partial).