A ledger with fourteen months of entries is found in the cellar of a Sanding counting…

A ledger with fourteen months of entries is found in the cellar of a Sanding counting house. The counting house is closed for a week. Among those questioned is a E. Wendl. The entry rests on the report in the Herald of the day, which the Encyclopedia cites; it has no other source.^[1]

Those concerned

• The Crown v. E. W. (prosecution)
• The Ministry of Chronology (actor)
• Emma Wendl (questioned)
• Sanding (location)

Place

Sanding (town), Westgau.

Grand Chancellor at the time: Andrea Wendl. The Grand Chancellor of the day is given for reference; the Chancellery's roll fixes the dates.

Background

• 30 July 1974: A bundle of letters postmarked in a year that does not exist is handed in at Wasserdorf by an executor. The executor is thanked and charged.
• 25 September 1972: A four-digit number appears overnight on the Ostrabruck market cross. It is removed before dawn. Three people are questioned. Among those questioned is a B. Wendl.
• 22 March 1971: A page of a soldier's journal, undated but describing grass, is found in a Sudholt bookbinder's stock. It is seized. Among those questioned is a K. Wendl.
• 5 June 1968: A page of a soldier's journal, undated but describing grass, is found in a Salzhafen bookbinder's stock. It is seized.
• 19 December 1964: A priest at Wasserdorf takes down a dying man's account of a long walk east. The priest is transferred.

The same year at Sanding

• 27 July 1979: The summer fair opens at Sanding. 800 head of cattle change hands. Prices are described as firm.
• 25 October 1979: A new school opens at Sanding with 80 pupils. The textbooks are the Ministry's.
• 19 December 1979: Piped water reaches Vine Lane, Sanding. The old pump is retained by public request.

Aftermath

• 11 November 1979: A clock face at Marschau is found to carry an unlicensed year on its calendar dial. The clockmaker's licence is revoked. Among those questioned is a S. Wendl.
• 7 May 1980: The Court of Chronological Offences rules in The Crown v. E. W.: acquitted for want of evidence that the figure denoted a year.
• 6 February 1983: A clock face at Ostrabruck is found to carry an unlicensed year on its calendar dial. The clockmaker's licence is revoked.
• 13 March 1984: A priest at Vellhausen takes down a dying man's account of a long walk east. The priest is transferred.
• 18 June 1984: A page of a soldier's journal, undated but describing grass, is found in a Brennholt bookbinder's stock. It is seized.
• 10 April 1987: Over three spring weeks a four-digit number is painted on more than three hundred walls in the Reedside district of Vellmar. The Ministry of Chronology describes it as 'an unlicensed date'.
• 16 November 1987: A ledger with fourteen months of entries is found in the cellar of a Reedtal counting house. The counting house is closed for a week.
• 20 January 1989: A gravestone at Sudfurt is found to bear a year that does not exist. The stone is replaced at the Ministry's expense.

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