Draveholt

Draveholt licenses the coast yards below the Matsugane bluffs to build off Draveholt draughts, three hulls a year at a tenth of contract value. Kurohane collects the fee under its concession and keeps a tenth of it, and both houses enter that tenth as freight.

The model loft at Draveholt takes two of Kazdrun's iron furnace masters each winter, and the fee is a tenth of the bog-iron output valued at Vurrgast's settlement price. Draveholt teaches pattern-casting and keeps the drawings, so Kazdrun can build to them and cannot sell them on.

Serathorne's customs surveyors take two years in the drawing office learning tonnage measurement, at three koku a head a term. Serathorne pays the fee against the harbour dues on Draveholt's launches rather than in silver.

Draveholt still books its mast timber fee against a Solmiryn charter, and since that plate cracked Solmiryn's weighbridge has been held by Aldemarch's ward garrison. Draveholt has demanded production of the charter four times and been sent a survey extract instead.

Iron-shod rollers, cradle work and three hundred fathom of chain for Talionwe's portage come out of Draveholt's yard on an order renewed every seventh year. Talionwe pays on time and argues every quotation down.

A hull sold at the Sixtongue Roads needs a title the harbour court will hear, and Talionwe registers Draveholt's sales for a twentieth of the price. That court has refused Amasekan seal seating order in three cases out of four, which is what the twentieth is really buying.

Forty mast trees and eight hundred feet of oak knee timber come down from Maeryvane to Draveholt's mast ponds every winter, rafted along the coast because the ridge road will not take the length. The quantity is written in Corvantine survey feet and paid in Amasekan shaku, so there are two copies of the contract and they do not agree.

Emberlin sends five hundred koku a year down the cart track to feed the slipway hands and the model loft. Half of it is settled in free places at the drawing office for Emberlin's officers' sons, which the yard's accounts show as a fee received and still outstanding.

Bar iron, spikes and two hundred hundredweight of anchor stock come off Vurrgast, down the iron road and round to Draveholt by inlet boat. Everything is weighed twice, once on the hold's hundredweight and once on the yard's kan, and Draveholt pays the lower of the two figures.