The courts enter a dissent: the fifth article did the right thing in keeping suspension records outside extinguishment; yet it placed on no one the burden of naming the authority that opened them. If the opening authority has itself gone extinct, dissolved, or been forgotten, who will close the suspension?

The answer is not in the law. The dissent enters this gap into the record now, for a case that will one day be opened. File one thousand eight hundred seventy-eight is such a suspension, and the writers of this dissent are aware of it.