history: fill Seychelles early-law gap and distinguish 1995 commencement

@@ -1818,2 +1818,11 @@ The same review resolves #180 by separating India's federal leaf-only bhang
 exclusion from state prohibitions and authorisations, including Maharashtra;
 licensed bhang supply in other states and national scores remain explicit.
+
+A [Seychelles early-history pass](research/history-seychelles-early-gap-2026-10-26.md)
+adds five records and two articles, reducing the largest recorded gap from
+108 years to 53. It covers the 1935 ordinance's documented foundation, the
+1949 extract-preparation amendment, 1982 cultivation/search rules, commencement
+of the replacement law in 1995 and the 2000 Francois cannabis ruling. The 1990
+entry now distinguishes enactment from commencement. Scores and existing vectors
+are preserved; original 1935 provisions, earlier sentencing schedules and the
+undated 1920s transit detention remain research targets.

@@ -641,5 +641,5 @@ books:
     sha256: 5831c4ec215e2252ac1a944076ca224693eeeb209578a09b1c3ca44cfda9a72f
     pdf_pages: 272
-    reviewed: '2026-10-14'
+    reviewed: '2026-10-26'
     coverage: >-
       Title, copyright and contents examined; A Note on Terms (x–xi), chapter 5 pp. 93–98 and 117–123, chapter 3
@@ -702,5 +702,5 @@ books:
         printed_start: 152
         status: selected_pages_read
-        pages_reviewed: '154, 157 (Germany at The Hague; Versailles Article 295)'
+        pages_reviewed: '154, 157 (Germany at The Hague; Versailles Article 295), 180 (de Monfreid case)'
         applied_to:
           - changes.yaml#germany-opium-law-1920
@@ -710,5 +710,9 @@ books:
         printed_start: 188
         status: selected_pages_read
-        pages_reviewed: '193'
+        pages_reviewed: '193–194'
+        follow_up: >-
+          Seychelles transit detention in the de Monfreid case: ten tons bought in Bombay in 1922,
+          governor held cargo nearly four months, but the local arrival/release year is not fixed
+          by this passage. Recover dated correspondence before adding a Seychelles event.
         applied_to:
           - changes.yaml#egypt-tanti-hashish-cafe-1914

@@ -0,0 +1,102 @@
+# Seychelles: the 1882–1990 gap — 26 October 2026
+
+Read DATA-MAINTENANCE, WRITING and BOOKS guidance. A current timeline audit found
+Seychelles had the largest post-1800 interval between recorded events: 108 years,
+1882–1990. The new records reduce it to 53 years, 1882–1935. The first-ban account
+and inherited score reconstruction remain research targets.
+
+## Material actually read
+
+- Downloaded and read all three pages of E/NL.1953/52, reproducing Seychelles
+  Ordinance 35 of 1948. It names the principal Ordinance 26 of 1935. Section 5
+  adds section 15(l), preparations from Indian-hemp extract/tincture except those
+  capable of external use only. Parliament passed it 29 December 1948; assent,
+  bracketed date and Gazette No.3 publication are all 10 January 1949. Visually
+  checked the product exception and publication line on printed p.3. The history
+  uses the published/bracketed date, not the year in the ordinance title.
+  https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/1297583/files/e-nl-1953-52-e.pdf
+- Read the complete catalogue entry for C.207.M.150.1937.XI in Gale's League of
+  Nations reel listing, printed p.1799, reel XI–22. It identifies the text of
+  Ordinance 26 of 1935 and its general import/export/sale/manufacture/use scope.
+  Together with the actual later ordinance this supports a bounded 1935 adoption
+  record. **The original 1935 text was not recovered:** do not claim it newly
+  prohibited cannabis, supply a penalty or assign an exact commencement date.
+  The 1937 circulation date is not treated as enactment.
+  https://assets.cengage.com/gale/psm/3028000R.pdf
+- Downloaded and read all three pages of E/NL.1982/40, reproducing Act 14 of
+  1982, especially the cultivation wording and replacement sections 24 and 27.
+  Visually checked p.1's plant wording and dates. Passage 22 June, assent
+  23 June 1982; the UN circulated it 6 August 1985. No separate commencement
+  notice was recovered. The history therefore records enactment year 1982,
+  not an invented operative day. Search conditions differ for border arrivals,
+  suspected premises/vehicles and personal searches; the article preserves them.
+  https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/109513/files/e-nl-1982-40-e.pdf
+- Read the complete reproduced trial judgment R v Francois (2000) SLR 103,
+  delivered 26 July 2000: involuntary confession excluded; knowing possession
+  found; 166.4 g resin after excluding two smaller pieces; threshold strictly
+  **more than** 25 g; packaging supported trafficking; cash/untested knife did
+  not by themselves establish it. The final order convicts. The ruling explicitly
+  dates the 1990 Act's commencement to **1 July 1995**, under S.I.52/1995. This
+  supports correcting the existing adoption description and adding commencement
+  separately. The 25 g rule is described in the 2000 case, not backdated to an
+  unexamined original 1990 schedule.
+  https://sheriahub.com/cases/sc/caselaw/r-v-francois-co-34-of-1998-2000-scsc-11-26-july-2000
+- Retrieved the Francois appeal listing dated 6 April 2001; it contained no
+  substantive judgment. No appeal result or finality is claimed. Do not date
+  older decisions mentioned in the trial judgment from their case-filing years.
+- Read the complete substantive 7 April 2016 Nation report for the later context:
+  unanimous passage, Charles Bastienne's reasons, sentencing discretion,
+  rehabilitation and the Criminal Procedure Code change allowing suspended terms.
+  Actual June commencement remains documented by the existing 2016 entry.
+  https://www.nation.sc/archive/248994/new-law-to-boost-fight-against-drugs
+
+## Retrieval and further leads
+
+UN Digital Library failed through the web tool, but direct download recovered
+E/NL.1982/40; the symbol API returned HTML, not a PDF. The same API did recover
+E/NL.1953/52. Local signature checks and text extraction distinguish them.
+The original 1935 ordinance and 1939 regulations remain targets. SeyLII's 1990
+consolidation was blocked; its indexed header is corroboration only, not a claim
+to having read that full statute. Twomey's legal-history PDF returned 410.
+
+Read Mills, Cannabis Britannica (2003), printed p.180 and pp.193–194 from the
+existing local text, including title/copyright transcription. The book describes
+a ten-ton cargo purchased in Bombay in 1922, detained nearly four months by the
+Seychelles governor and released when he found no ground to hold it. Its local
+arrival/release date is not explicit within the 1922–1924 story, so no dated
+Seychelles event is invented. The catalogue records these selected pages and the
+correspondence follow-up. This is Mills's account of archival records, not a claim
+that the underlying Colonial Office files were read.
+
+## Scope and scores
+
+Added five records: 1935 foundation, 1949 extract preparations, 1982 plant/search
+amendment, 1995 commencement and the 2000 trial ruling. Replaced the 1990 entry's
+Wikipedia-only account with the trial court's distinction between enactment and
+commencement. Two articles explain the 1982 rules and the 2000 ruling.
+
+Country scores/statuses and all existing `before` vectors are preserved. The new
+legislative context has explicit unscored reasons: existing prohibitions, limited
+preparation/wording changes, and insufficient original schedules for historical
+sentencing-band reconstruction. The trial decision applies existing law. Retaining
+vectors does not validate the inherited 1882 drop or resolve the 1994/1995
+sentencing history. The full 1982 second amendment is also outstanding; the
+retrieved Act 14 expands search/cultivation rules and must not be conflated with
+that separate trafficking amendment.
+
+## Validation
+
+Compare all existing history objects with the baseline except the named 1990 edit;
+verify stable score vectors and profile bytes. Check article length (350–500
+words), references, internal links and new entry IDs; run history/answer tests,
+score triage/chain and the production build. Inspect the country History tab,
+new pages and history exports before committing only this pass's changes.
+
+Results: all 40 history and 39 answer/profile tests pass; the production build
+passes (4,286 pages). Five new event pages, the corrected adoption page, both
+articles, country history and CSV exports were checked. Browser checks confirm
+all five additions in the History tab and the 1982 article’s references. The
+Seychelles chain has no flagged steps and triage has no open entries. Baseline
+comparison preserves all existing records except the intended 1990 revision,
+all score vectors and the country profile byte for byte. Articles contain 392
+and 402 words with four sections each.