At the Lower Market Hall beside the east stair, Nella Voss keeps the annual return file beside a chipped bronze weight kept beside the market’s standard measure. The two details are easy to miss in a summary: one is a line in a ledger, the other is the condition that decides whether the line is useful.
Nella Voss is the grain measure on the morning exchange. On this deep winter visit, the work begins with the market scale book and the merchants’ sealed delivery chits; only after the entry is checked can the crew say what the rule asks of the people below.
13 sacks weighed before the first bell were entered this cycle, compared with 13 in the prior file. The figure is one part of a longer handoff. 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.
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. Residents closest to the work describe the difference as a route, a wait or a shift that cannot be moved on a slate. Their accounts have been attached to the docket rather than folded into the total.
The responsible office has offered a limited remedy with an end date for review. The entry belongs to the annual return file at the Lower Market Hall beside the east stair. The market clerk will publish weights from the gate and the hall on the same day. The next visit will show whether the revision travels beyond the office that wrote it.
