The Office of Seat Disclosures posted Form S-4 at 9:40 a.m. The form prices a winning seat in the Senior House at 81.3 million bits. The figure is the average for seats taken in this sitting. It counts the candidate's book and the banners that arrived under other names.
Wage Schedule C, line 2, still reads 48,600 bits a year. The Senior House last touched that line seven years ago, at a Tuesday sitting that adjourned before lunch. A delegate who holds the chair for the full six-year sit draws 291,600 bits if every payday clears. Matched to the winning sum, the yearly wage pays the seat off in 1,673 years.
Clover Margin stamped both drawers. She keeps the disclosure book on the second floor, west corridor, third window.
"Both numbers are sworn," Margin said. "I don't pick which one is the news."
Candidate committees account for 27.6 million of the average. Outside sheets account for 53.7 million. Pooled Banner Fund and four letterhead committees sit in Schedule E. The chamber door lists the delegates. Schedule E lists the funds.
Ponies who reached the final slate and lost averaged 46.8 million bits. The form enters their sum on the page beneath the winners. The chair went with the other book.
Fourteen seats changed holders this sitting. Schedule T totals those fourteen winning books at 1,138.2 million bits. The smallest book is Nessa Kline's, from the north stalls. Her 11.42 million bits sit entirely on her own committee line. At the posted wage, her seat pays itself off in 235 years. She sent no sentence to the well.
The largest total belongs to Jolly Canvass, sent up from the west range. His S-4 totals 109.4 million bits. His own committee shows 31.2 million. The rest came from funds that answer to no sitting. The wage schedule pays that seat the same 48,600. At the posted wage, his sum equals 2,251 years.
Canvass spoke at the well at 4:10 p.m. The well is the open stair inside the Senior House. The session clerk took the sentence down at the landing.
"You want the job cheap, you get a cheap job," Canvass said.
Schedule D, line 22, already carried 2.1 million bits at the morning stamp. North Loft Messaging had flown a four-word line over the capital approach on three mornings. The line read STILL YOUR DELEGATE. On the third morning the wind turned the cloth, and the words faced the river. North Loft's invoice came in at 3:05 p.m. and matched the line to the bit. The committee paid it before the close of book.
Wynn Harth directs the Pooled Banner Fund. A memorandum from his desk, timed 7:50 a.m., moved 19 million bits into the Canvass seat across twenty days. The memo calls the transfer necessary.
"The seat was in play," Harth said. "We played."
The Day Court answered the form with a decree. The noon clerk entered it at 12:05 p.m. under the solar seal. The decree runs forty-one words. It says the figures "reflect a healthy desire to be heard." It leaves the wage, the filing rules, and the hour as they stand.
Bran Colter keeps the slate at the west freight window. He filed Petition 18-K at 8:15 a.m. The petition asks the Senior House for nine minutes on Item 6, the scale-fee rise, set for Thursday at 11:00. The filing fee was 12 bits. Colter paid it at the same window where Margin keeps the tray.
"Twelve bits got me a place in the tray," Colter said. "I asked her in March what a seat costs. She showed me the last book. I still have the window."
Thursday's public slate gives Item 6 the 11:00 hour. It gives a closed member breakfast the 7:30 hour. Form S-4 itemizes the committees and leaves the breakfast guests off its pages. The clerk's card marks Petition 18-K with the phrase "as the calendar allows." Thursday's calendar belongs to Item 6 and the breakfast.
Margin closed the west window at 6:00 p.m. Petition 18-K lay in the tray under the stamp from 8:15.
At 6:12 p.m. the solar clerk sent a second copy of the decree to the disclosure office. The copy carried the same forty-one words and a fresh seal. Margin's incoming log marks it "duplicate of the noon entry." The noon entry already held docket SD-12. She added no second number.
Colter's receipt, number 18-K-441, lists the hour, the fee, and the item. The speaking-time box holds a dash. Section 9 of the public-time rule gives the chair discretion once the morning is spoken for. Thursday's morning is spoken for.
The 12-bit receipt and the 81.3 million figure went through the same stamp pad. Margin set both in the west drawer under Thursday's date.
