Cosa Number Blunder

The Cosa Number Scandal was an error in the numbering of successive Clarks that occurred between 1997/XVIII and 2001/XXII. In September 1997, fresh from the 23rd Election, Secretary of State Evan P. Gallagher published the 1st Clark of the 23th Ziu. his was his 8th and final Clark published before Charles Sauls took the reign for the remainder of the 23th Cosa, and the following Election.

Iàn Aglatzarâ would then become the Secretary of State for the following Clark, in May 1998, the first of the 27th Ziu.

You see, in October 1997, in his first Clark, Charles Sauls didn't increase the Clark number by 1, publishing the 2nd Clark of the 23rd Cosa, but he rather published the 1st Clark of the 24th Cosa.

September 1997 Clark

Pay attention to the last Clark published by Evan P. Gallagher (some of the links on that page will not work):

http://talossa.ca/files/oldclarks/ziu23/199709.htm

It clearly says: Volume 18, Number 1, 23rd Ziu , September 1997/XVIII

October 1997 Clark

And this is the first Clark of Charles Sauls, published the very next Month:

http://talossa.ca/files/oldclarks/ziu23/199710.htm

It clearly states: Volume 18, Number 1, 24th Ziu, October 1997/XVIII

November 1997 Clark

In November 1997, Charles Sauls should have published the 3rd Clark of the 23th Ziu, and instead, published this Clark:

http://talossa.ca/files/oldclarks/ziu23/199711.htm

Which is was also published as Volume 19, Number 1, 24th Ziu, November 1997/XVIII

December 1997 Clark

The December 1997, the Ziu number was bumped once again, so that instead of publishing the 4th Clark of the 23th Ziu, he published the 1st Clark of the 25th Ziu:

http://talossa.ca/files/oldclarks/ziu23/199712.htm

Once again, it states: Volume 20, Number 1, 25th Ziu, December 1997/XVIII

January 1998 Clark

Someone must have spotted that the Clark number was wrong, because in January 1998, Charles finally published a Clark which wasn't #1, instead, during the month where the 5th Clark of the 23rd Cosa was supposed to be published, this is the Clark that was sent to the Cosâ members:

http://talossa.ca/files/oldclarks/ziu23/199801.htm

Where it clearly spells out that: Volume 19, Number 4, 26th Ziu, January 1998/XIX

So not only did Charles Sauls realize that he should increase the Clark Number (he probably put 4 because it was his 4th Clark, the first of the Cosa having been handled by Evan, but he ALSO increased the Cosa number from 25 to 26!

February 1998 Clark

The 6th Clark of the 23rd Ziu was published in February 1998, and an election was called. Perhaps someone counted that this was the 6th Clark of the Ziu, and yet, when it was published, it was only the 5th Clark, but not of the 23rd but of the 26th.

http://talossa.ca/files/oldclarks/ziu23/199802.htm

Look at the top: http://talossa.ca/files/oldclarks/ziu23/199802.htm

May 1998 Clark

In May 1998, after the March-April 1998 Election, the new Secretary of State Iàn Aglatzarâ published the first Clark properly, for the 27th Cosa, since the last Clark Published was for the 26th Cosa.

No one, at this point, had spotted the problem.

Legacy of the error

Iàn Aglatzarâ was followed by Tamoran Dal Nava, when then, by Daviu Foctéir, who took office in the second clark of the 27th Cosa, but actually published the 2nd Clark of the 30th Cosa.

Marti-Pair Furxheir was the first person to spot the error, but sadly, we do not have the exact date of when that happened.

We can find in the witt archives a post about a bill:

Indented line

"Ben won approval with his bill via a "sunset clause" which kicks in after the fifth Permanent Resident or the publication of the 2nd Clark of the 33rd Cosa (or is it the 30th Cosa??)"

Which shows that by the time the 3rd Clark of the 29th Cosa was published in November 2001, we still believed to be in the 32nd Cosa.

Marti-Pair Furxheir declared:

My memory is that this was discovered we were what we believed to be the 33th Cosa, but which was in reality the 30th.