Public Record Act, 1751

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ACT OF THE IMPERIAL DIET

 

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PUBLIC RECORD ACT, 1751

16 Horen’s Calling

Introduced in the Senate on 9 S.E. 1750

Passed in the Imperial Senate session of 1750-1752.

 

AYE

Baruch

Basrid

Callahan

de Antunyes

May

Napier 

Rutledge

Wright

 

This act shall create a public gazette with intention for easy access by both senators and citizens, as well as designate the responsibilities of maintaining such as list by the President Pro Tempore or by the Undersecretary of State for Civil Affairs and the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

 

INTRODUCTION

 

As the Imperial Diet moves onwards, there becomes a need for proper record-keeping in both allowing efficiency in referencing acts and nominations as well as allowing citizens of the nation to easily access them. In keeping with the theme of efficiency, the position of Undersecretary of State for Civil Affairs will be given direct procedure in fulfillment of this task and a salary after seeing to all responsibilities fulfilled.

 

SECTION I:

Establishing the Senatorial Gazette for public records

 

The Senatorial Gazette will be the public collection of all acts, bills, and nominations introduced and/or passed through the Imperial Diet. It shall consist of the following compiled lists,

• Acts of the Diet
• Bills (Vetoed/Failed) of the Diet
• Nominations (Accepted/Failed/Vetoed) to the Council of State
• Sessions and its Senators (Incumbent/Former)

 

The list shall be written chronologically, with introducing and cosponsoring senators marked if applicable.

 

SECTION II:

On the responsibilities of maintaining the Senatorial Gazette and establishing the responsibilities of the Undersecretary of State for Civil Affairs

 

The Senatorial Gazette shall be maintained in joint by the serving President Pro Tempore and the Ministry of Civil Affairs, under the direction of the Undersecretary of State for Civil Affairs. The undersecretary shall be first and foremost responsible for the constant updates and revisions required for the gazette, as well as maintaining a strict format and design. If the undersecretary and the respective Ministry of Civil Affairs is unable to fulfill the requirements of this act, the mantle falls on the President Pro Tempore to maintaining the Senatorial Gazette (see Section III).

 

The gazette shall have the following dimensions and details,

• Times New Orenian font, eagle-feather quill
• Black diblenese ink
• Uterine vellum parchment
• Dried for approximately three days before display

 

SECTION III:

On the salary of the Undersecretary of State for Civil Affairs

 

The Undersecretary of State for Civil Affairs, member of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, shall be afforded a salary of two-hundred (200) imperial marks, to be paid at the end of every annum.

 

If the undersecretary is unable to fulfill the requirements as laid out in Section II, the President Pro Tempore, under advice from the Chairperson of the Committee of Civil Affairs and the Chairperson of the Committee of the Treasury, may suspend the salary definitely till qualifications are met.

 

Introduced by Senator Arthur Callahan on 9 S.E. 1750

 

Cosponsored by Senator Sir Terrence May GCM

 

Issued and proclaimed,

HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY, Peter III Anthony, Holy Orenian Emperor, King of Curon, Renatus, Salvus, and Seventis, King-Elect of Kaedrin, Protector of the Heartlanders, Highlanders, and Farfolk, etcetera.