So, do we assume the suit-wearers were paid?
it sure does look that way otherwise the headlines would be city workers weren’t paid instead of police/fire. And it would have much more press.
It is common for payroll to be sent out in waves. No idea of the size of Rochester’s payroll, but a processing wave per department and again for upper management is just good security.
I am sure that Nathaniel Rochester’s descendants buggered up the formatting somehow ... and that Rochester uses someone else’s software to handle payroll and reporting.