diff --git a/modules/mesh-grants/internal/buscompose/buscompose_test.go b/modules/mesh-grants/internal/buscompose/buscompose_test.go
index c6cc96e7..43644ab7 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-grants/internal/buscompose/buscompose_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-grants/internal/buscompose/buscompose_test.go
@@ -1337,3 +1337,46 @@ func TestAMachineEventNamesItsNodeWhereTheDefinitionSaysSo(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("the engine does not hear every node's running: %v", sub)
 	}
 }
+
+// Design 47 (W8.6): the events of a seat held once (`freed`, `pinned`, `owed`) are published by the account of the module that
+// holds it alone, so the gate's is the one that says them and the checker's the one that says its own seat's `owed`; a module
+// that holds neither, and one that only uses the seat, is granted neither.
+func TestASeatsEventsArePublishedByItsHolderAlone(t *testing.T) {
+	gate := Seat{Name: "mesh-delivery", Scope: "mesh", Emits: []string{"freed", "pinned", "owed.*.*"}}
+	checker := Seat{Name: "mesh-delivery-checker", Scope: "mesh", Emits: []string{"owed.*.*"}}
+	records := Records{Nodes: []string{"one"}, Assigned: map[string][]Declared{"one": {
+		{Module: "gate", Holds: []Seat{gate}, Uses: []Seat{checker}},
+		{Module: "checker", Holds: []Seat{checker}, Uses: []Seat{gate}},
+		{Module: "forge", Uses: []Seat{gate, checker}},
+	}}}
+	users, err := Users(records)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	perms := map[string]Permissions{}
+	for _, u := range users {
+		p, err := PermissionsFor(u)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		perms[u.Username()] = p
+	}
+	for _, row := range []struct {
+		who, subject string
+		may          bool
+	}{
+		{"one.gate", "mesh.seat.mesh-delivery.event.freed", true},
+		{"one.gate", "mesh.seat.mesh-delivery.event.pinned", true},
+		{"one.gate", "mesh.seat.mesh-delivery.event.owed.r.1", true},
+		{"one.gate", "mesh.seat.mesh-delivery-checker.event.owed.r.1", false},
+		{"one.checker", "mesh.seat.mesh-delivery-checker.event.owed.r.1", true},
+		{"one.checker", "mesh.seat.mesh-delivery.event.owed.r.1", false},
+		{"one.checker", "mesh.seat.mesh-delivery.event.freed", false},
+		{"one.forge", "mesh.seat.mesh-delivery.event.freed", false},
+		{"one.forge", "mesh.seat.mesh-delivery-checker.event.owed.r.1", false},
+	} {
+		if got := MayPublish(perms[row.who], row.subject); got != row.may {
+			t.Errorf("%s may publish %s = %v, want %v", row.who, row.subject, got, row.may)
+		}
+	}
+}