The motion to reclaim the north-east district reached the council table at the second hour, eleven hours after the last column cleared the culverts.
Aldus Merrow put his name at the top of it, which surprised nobody who had read the record of the previous fortnight. He is the councillor named for proposing that the outer district be given up while forty thousand animals were still walking toward it.
The chamber sits on the third floor of the civic hall, nine seats at a curved bench with a public gallery behind a rail. Luna Marr had a relay feed open from the gallery before the first item was called, which she did not ask anybody's permission for.
The motion held that the condemned ground had been occupied under an emergency arrangement, plus that the emergency was now over. It asked for the district to be returned to city administration by the ninth hour of the following morning.
