Engine decking issue(help)

Those were the machinist measurements from shop where the guy i bought it off of took it too before it came to me and my machinist is saying its already at 9.59. He has done everything else to my block all thats left is decking/resurfacing or not.

Gotchya. Ok, so have you stood there and watched your machinist measure it yet or is that the next step? Cause "somebody's" measuring wrong. If it's really that low, it's very likely been decked before. I've never seen one that low right out of the box. Course, there's always a first.