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+# Aruba 1929: estimate replaced with the dated Antillean drug ordinance
+
+Research checked on 26 October 2026. Read `DATA-MAINTENANCE.md`, the Aruba
+entries with the profile, the Curaçao and Sint Maarten 1929 twin entries
+and the consolidation sources before editing. No `changes.yaml` entry was
+corrected or re-scored apart from the replacement; no profiles, scores or
+other timelines changed.
+
+## What changed
+
+- Replaced `aw-first-restriction-estimate` (window [1928,1960]) with
+  `aruba-first-drug-ordinance-1929` (1929-07-30, ban, scored, before FREE),
+  mirroring the committed Curaçao/Sint Maarten 1929 pass. Chain is now
+  1929 100→21, 2025 21→24, 0 flagged steps. Estimated first bans 60→59.
+- No article added: the twin islands' articles were handled in the earlier
+  pass; Aruba's 1929 event carries the same ordinance text.
+
+## Sources actually read
+
+- CVDR/1718/1 consolidation notes (Dutch original, via repository.
+  officiele-overheidspublicaties.nl): the 1960 Opium Ordinance replaces
+  the ordinance of 30 July 1929 (P.B. 1940, no. 138) on opium and other
+  narcotics; the regulation is of the Nederlandse Antillen.
+- Overheid.nl CVDR142115 commencement history: the 1960 original signed
+  28 March 1960 (P.B. 1960, no. 65), in force 1 June 1964 under decree of
+  29 April 1964.
+- English Wikipedia "Netherlands Antilles" (API extract): the Antilles
+  (1954–2010) comprised Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, Sint Eustatius and
+  Sint Maarten as successor of the Dutch colony of Curaçao and
+  Dependencies, with Aruba leaving in 1986 — the scope clause only.
+
+## Scope reasoning
+
+The 1929 ordinance was colony-wide (colony gazette P.B.), and Aruba was
+part of the colony until 1986. No Aruba-specific application instrument
+was needed: the same inheritance covers Curaçao and Sint Maarten in the
+twin entries.
+
+## Not done here
+
+- No Aruba 1960/1964 replacement entry: the 1990 Aruba consolidation's OCR
+  is unusable for lineage and the 2012 amendment text recites no 1929/1960
+  ancestry, so an Aruba-specific commencement claim would be unverified.
+  The 1960 replacement is already documented in the entry via the official
+  consolidation notes.
+- The old estimate's "Netherlands banned trade in Indian hemp in 1928"
+  clause was dropped with it, matching the twin pass (no read source was
+  found for a metropolitan 1928 hemp-trade ban).
+
+## Validation and tree note
+
+- `node scripts/data-status.cjs chain aw`: 1929 100→21, 2025 21→24, 0
+  flagged. Estimates list no longer contains `aw`.
+- `npm run history:test`: 40 pass, 0 fail. `npm run answers:test`: 40
+  pass, 0 fail. Production build: 4,352 pages, complete.
+- Commit stages only the changes.yaml replacement hunk plus this note, via
+  patch filtering. Foreign work in the shared tree is excluded and
+  preserved.

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