Taking the role of Acting Governor Treadwell has been busy these last few days. Bobbling around the town, talking to citizens about this missing spot of time in the ledgers of all, learning what little details could be found about injuries sustained and a death attained.
Today, this fourteenth of the tenth month of 213, Treadwell finds himself back at the Meetinghouse, settled into his comfy seat in his Councilor's Office--no moving a chair that size and cushiony by himself at his age!--and writing notes to send out by a well-paid lad of the town.
The first goes in multiple copies to all of his colleagues seated on or affiliated with the Council--Ariane, Agnieszka, Berdini, and the rest, even if they so rarely make appearances.
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To all who receive this letter,
I'm hoping to make better sense of this whole messy business now that it's seen some manner of resolution. I bear no ill will to any who was under such close control by the deceased Rhaena Olwak. However, we must resume the task of overseeing this province as our requirements dictate. As Acting Governor, I henceforth call upon each of you either to see me directly this week at the Meetinghouse or to respond by writing about what date and time is convenient for you to do so. Ideally, I would much rather host a proper Council meeting to discuss plans for the immediate present and time to come, particularly with regards about getting everything back in order so that Glenn Burnie doesn't return home to a dreadful mess at his place of work.
Aloisius Horatio Treadwell, Acting Governor, Councilor of Revenue and Finance
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Otherwise, a quickly scrawled note, stamped with the appropriate Governor's seal if it's anywhere to be found in the Meetinghouse, goes out to the town criers, particularly to the one he trusts most, one Jack Alldale by name. It is to be shouted above the streets, of course, but arrangements are also made to have it posted about town as soon as possible.
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By order of Aloisius Treadwell, Acting Governor, the recent laws about clothes, foods, appearances of shops and market stalls, habits of bodily cleanliness, etc., as well as their consequences of indentured servitude, time in the stocks, fines, taxes, levies, fees, etc., are henceforth removed from the legal code. Concerned townsfolk may come to discuss these matters with Acting Governor Treadwell at the Meetinghouse as necessary, in an orderly and peaceful fashion.
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