HELENA PROPERTY AND FINANCES ACT, 1728

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HELENA PROPERTY AND FINANCES ACT

Issued and Confirmed by the Lord High Seneschal,

8th of Godfrey’s Triumph, 1728

 

 

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TO ALL LOYAL SUBJECTS OF THE IMPERIAL CROWN:

 

In accordance with the terms set forth by His Imperial Majesty and agreed upon by the Lord State Treasurer, the Office of the Lord High Seneschal has seen it fit to revise the taxation and property pricing codes of the Imperial Capital of Helena, previously established by the former regime and altered, without permission, by the Lord Maer’s Office.

 

Thus, the Crown’s will, effective immediately, has decreed the alterations to be as follows:

 

1.  PROPERTY CODE

1.  A Merchant’s Stall in the Imperial Capital shall be priced at 100 Mina.

2.  A Home, Office, or Shop of small to moderate size, capable of housing no more than one person, shall be priced at 100 Mina.

100.  A Home, Office, or Shop of moderate to large size, capable of housing more than one person, shall be priced at 200 Mina.

500.  A Guild Hall or Manor, capable of housing a thriving enterprise or a family of the appropriate lineage, shall be priced at 3000 Mina.

5.  All full-blooded Descendants of good legal standing may obtain property in the Imperial Capital at the decreed prices. Canonist Humans shall have the right of priority. A Citizen of the Imperial Capital may not own more that one Stall and one Home, Office, Shop, Guild Hall or Manor unless explicitly granted this privilege by the Imperial Administration.

 

2.  TAXATION CODE

1.  A Merchant’s Stall, as defined above, shall be worth 75 Mina per Saint’s Week in fees.

2.  A Home, Office, or Shop, as defined above and regardless of size, shall be worth 75 Mina per Saint’s Week in fees.

100.  A Guild Hall or Manor, as defined above, shall be worth 150 Mina per Saint’s Week in fees.

500.  All property-owning Citizens of the Imperial Capital, regardless of rank or status, are obliged to conduct these payments in due manner, by Tobias’ Bounty ((Saturday)) every Saint’s Week, or face eviction and property repossession. Exemptions shall be granted to these categories as follows:

1.  Members of His Imperial Majesty’s Privy Council;

2.  Imperial Stewards of Helena;

3.  Guardsmen of Helena of the rank of Hussar and above;

4.  Property-owning Citizens personally exempt by His Imperial Majesty in writing.

 

3.  FINANCES

1.  Seventy-five percent of all property income and one hundred percent of all tax income shall be delivered to the Imperial Crown each Saint’s Week. The remaining twenty-five percent of all property income shall be granted as commission payment to the Imperial Stewards of Helena.

2.  All delivered income shall be split between the Imperial Treasury and the Office of the Lord High Seneschal. The Imperial Treasury shall collect sixty percent of this sum.

100.  The Office of the Lord High Seneschal shall support the Lord Maer’s Office with half of its remaining income each Saint’s Week.
      

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IN NOMINE DEI,

HIS SERENE HIGHNESS, Charles Edward of the House of Alstion, Prince of Alstion, Duke of Balemena, Lord High Seneschal of the Holy Orenian and Imperial Crown