A decision on the grain market should be judged by what happens at the Lower Market Hall beside the east stair. The docket is at step 5 of the current review. Its latest entry reads: A second set of hands has checked the count and recorded where the methods differ. A rule that looks complete in the chamber can still leave the people who use it carrying an unmeasured cost.
54 sacks weighed before the first bell were entered this cycle, compared with 52 in the prior file. That comparison matters because the public summary counts entries. The open question is whether the morning price rise reflects a smaller harvest or a bottleneck at the lift.
Merchants cite fewer sacks at the gate; carriers say several loads waited below the cliff lift overnight. The current record does not settle that disagreement. The objection deserves a direct answer, but it is not a reason to make the rule permanent before the affected residents can check the method.
Nima Thol checked the market scale book and the merchants’ sealed delivery chits against the field notes. The method is to put the posted price beside the amount that actually changed hands; it confirms the entries, but not every interpretation attached to them. The practical evidence is a chipped bronze weight kept beside the market’s standard measure; any new measure should record that condition beside the total.
The chamber should approve a limited trial with a published end date, a way to record exceptions and a named reviewer. The market clerk will publish weights from the gate and the hall on the same day. That is the narrowest decision that can be defended from the evidence now available.
