Preparations and precautions.

Preparations and precautions.

Postby Cinnabar » Sun Sep 02, 2007 1:59 am

It is with their customary polite efficiency that a deputation of Constables arrives at the Interim Meetinghouse on Haberdasher's Row and present their orders. They are met with some confusion by the few clerks working over the weekend, but the papers, properly signed and confirmed by Councillor Treadwell himself, are clear enough: the bureaucrats, clerks and functionaries under the purview of the Councillor of Administrative Sanctions - that is to say, the vast majority of them - are to be transferred to more suitable and secure offices until the new Meetinghouse is constructed.

Given that these officials have been crammed into the close confines of a hurriedly-adapted townhouse since the old Meetinghouse burned down almost a whole year ago, this is met with no small amount of relief. Soon afterwards the Interim Meetinghouse becomes a scene of bustling industry as boxes and chests of files are transferred to covered carts on the street outside, cabinets and trunks marked with chalk to keep them in order and stacked carefully on the waiting wagons; all of this under the watchful eyes of the Constables, here to ensure that the move takes place safely, given the sensitive nature of many of the documents stored at the Interim Meetinghouse.

At the same time, a somewhat larger and more seriously-equipped detachment of Constables arrives at the home of Councillor Treadwell, there to escort a certain number of heavy trunks from his abode onto the back of a covered wagon and from there to the new, more secure location.

The new offices turn out to be a converted two-storey warehouse of brick and timber on a plot next to the Yard - most convenient for keeping the place well-guarded, it must be said. The interior has been partitioned with timber walls into individual offices; a brick-lined cellar with a newly-installed iron door serves as a safe place to store important documents and valuables; the whole is suffused with the smell of sawdust and fresh paint and varnish.

A temporary measure, only until the new Meetinhouse is complete. But still a fair bit more spacious and comfortable than the house on Haberdasher's Row.
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