The New Administrative Areas Act of 2013
The New Administrative Areas Act of 2013
An Act to provide for the establishment of Administrative Areas, Palatine Duchies, and Governors-General for the Sovereign Kingdom of Avalon.
BE IT ENACTED IN THE NAME OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS with the consent of the combined will of the Magnum Concilium and by the authority of the same:
ARTICLE ONE
THAT the following Administrative Areas are to be established in
the territories otherwise known as the United States and Pacific Islands, to
wit,
The First Administrative Area shall include Connecticut, Maine,
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and
Vermont;
The Second Administrative Area shall include New Jersey, New
York, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin
Islands;
The Third Administrative Area shall include Delaware, District of
Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West
Virginia;
The Fourth Administrative Area shall include Alabama, Florida,
Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and
Tennessee;
The Fifth Administrative Area shall include Illinois, Indiana,
Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and
Wisconsin;
The Sixth Administrative Area shall consist of Arkansas,
Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and
Texas;
The Seventh Administrative Area shall consist of Iowa, Kansas,
Missouri, and Nebraska;
The Eighth Administrative Area shall include Colorado, Montana,
North Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming;
The Ninth Administrative Area shall consist of Arizona,
California, Hawaii, Nevada, American Samoa, Guam, North Mariana Islands, and
the Trust Territory of Pacific
Islands;
The Tenth Administrative Area shall include Alaska, Idaho,
Oregon, and Washington.
Furthermore, the Royal Preserve, as established by His Royal
Highness’s Magnum Concilium, shall consist of whichever Administrative Area he
shall be resident within.
ARTICLE TWO
AND FURTHER THAT subjects of His Royal Highness shall, unless His
Royal Highness’s Magnum Concilium provide otherwise, be considered resident in
that Administrative Area which includes the state of the United States or
Protectorates, in which they are considered by the aforementioned nations to be
legally resident.
ARTICLE THREE
AND FURTHER THAT inasmuch as it is desirable to provide for the
conduct of affairs in the said Administrative Areas by persons of unquestionable
probity and justice, so many Administrative Areas shall be placed under the
jurisdiction of a Duke or Duchess of the Sovereign Kingdom of Avalon with
Palatine Authority as the number of Dukes willing to assume such powers may
permit, & the Palatine Authority granted to such Dukes shall consist of
certain stated powers, which shall, in all placed not subject to a Duke so
empowered, remain the exclusive prerogatives of the officers, councils, or
commissions elsewhere vested with the said powers. The appointment of a Duke to
have Palatine Authority in an Administrative Area shall not operate to restrict
in any way the authority of His Royal Highness’s Government in the said
Administrative Area.
The powers granted to a Duke or Duchess with Palatine Authority
shall be as follows:
1.
The Dukes
shall have at their discretion the authority to confer the rights, styles,
titles, and dignities of Baron and Baronet on those of His Royal Highness’s
subjects resident within their Administrative
Areas;
2.
The Dukes
may summon advisory Councils from those of His Royal Highness’s subjects
resident within their Administrative
Areas;
3.
The Dukes
may issue charters to subjects of His Royal Highness resident within their
Administrative Areas, provided, that the privileges granted to business
corporations under such charters shall not obtain outside the Administrative
Areas concerned and that no municipality or other corporation created under such
a charter shall be granted the privilege of electing representatives to the
Magnum Concilium: The possession of such a charter shall not prevent the
participants from later seeking the more extensive privileges of a Charter
Royal;
4.
The Dukes
may establish ordinances and laws for the specific needs of their Administrative
Areas, provded that no such law or ordinance shall serve to contravene the
implied or expressed will or law of the Magnum Concilium or of any other Royal
Council nor any of the duly ratified treaties made by His Royal Highness’s
Government, which laws and treaties together constitute the supreme law of the
land, and further provided that a copy of all such laws and ordinances shall be
deposited with the Lord Chancellor of the Sovereign Kingdom of Avalon within
three months of the time of proclamation of such law or ordinance, unless the
Royal Councils provide for some other system of deposit of such
records;
5.
The Dukes
shall also have all the powers of Governors-General as hereinafter enumerated,
including any and all those which may be granted in subsequent
legislation.
The following Dukes are hereby appointed to have Palatine
Authority in the Administrative Areas specified, to wit: the Duchess of del
Acqs, the Sixth Administrative Area; the Duke of Don, the Eighth Administrative
Area.
Further appointments of Dukes to have Palatine Authority shall be
made by the Magnum Concilium and only the Magnum Concilium shall have the power
to rescind the appointment of any Duke to have such
powers.
When an Administrative Area has been placed under the
jurisdiction of a Duke as hereinbefore provided the said Administrative Area
shall be for all official purposed designated “The Palatine Duchy of” followed
by the name of the Dukedom involved, so that the Eighth Administrative Area
shall be designated the Palatine Duchy of Don, and so
forth.
ARTICLE FOUR
AND FURTHER THAT there shall be a Governor-General for each of
those Administrative Areas not placed under the Palatine Authority of a Duke and
that the said Governors-General shall be empowered as follows, to
wit:
The Governor-General shall be the immediate representative and
agent of the Pendraig and his Councils in the Administrative Area and as such
shall be responsible to His Royal Highness for the execution of the laws of the
realm within the Administrative Area and the maintenance of well-ordered
business therein; and shall except when otherwise provided supervise and direct
any activities conducted in his Administrative Area by agencies of His Royal
Highness’s Government;
All Governors-General shall supervise the election of the
Administrative Area’s representatives to the Magnum
Concilium;
And, lest the subjects of His Royal Highness resident in those
Administrative Areas not subject to the Palatine Authority of a Duke suffer any
disability as a result of the place of their residence, the Magum Concilium is
hereby empowered to grant special charters to subjects of His Royal Highness
resident in such Administrative Areas when the Governor-General of an
Administrative Area may so recommend, provided that such special charters shall
be subject to the same restrictions as those charters granted by Dukes having
Palatine Authority and that the possession of a special charter shall not
prevent the participants from later seeking the more extensive privileges of a
Charter Royal.
ARTICLE FIVE
AND FURTHER THAT the Dukes having Palatine Authority may employ
any or all of the officers of their households in the government of their
Palatine Duchies provided that the employment of household officers in such a
manner shall not operate to weaken or vacate the legal distinction between such
a Duke’s Palatine Duchy and the actual Duchy to which he would be entitled if
His Royal Highness’s realms were still located in other lands beyond the
Atlantic Sea.
Especially the Dukes having Palatine Authority may employ their
private Guards for the defense against invasion of and the maintenance of order
in their Palatine Duchies, provided that Guards so employed shall not be
recruited from any place other than the Palatine Duchy in which they are to be
so employed that that no Duke having Palatine Authority shall wage war against
another such Duke, or against any but treasonous subjects of His Royal
Highness, nor shall any such Duke aggressively engage in hostilities without a
formal declaration of war by the Pendraig or the Magnum Concilium. No other
subject of His Royal Highness, except for those so empowered by the Pendraig or
any future legislation, shall, raise or maintain any armed guard or troop of
soldiery whatsoever.
GIVEN
at the Capital of the High King, the Pendraig, on the third day of the month of
April, in the year two thousand and thirteen.
An Act to provide for the establishment of Administrative Areas, Palatine Duchies, and Governors-General for the Sovereign Kingdom of Avalon.
BE IT ENACTED IN THE NAME OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS with the consent of the combined will of the Magnum Concilium and by the authority of the same:
ARTICLE ONE
THAT the following Administrative Areas are to be established in
the territories otherwise known as the United States and Pacific Islands, to
wit,
The First Administrative Area shall include Connecticut, Maine,
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and
Vermont;
The Second Administrative Area shall include New Jersey, New
York, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin
Islands;
The Third Administrative Area shall include Delaware, District of
Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West
Virginia;
The Fourth Administrative Area shall include Alabama, Florida,
Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and
Tennessee;
The Fifth Administrative Area shall include Illinois, Indiana,
Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and
Wisconsin;
The Sixth Administrative Area shall consist of Arkansas,
Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and
Texas;
The Seventh Administrative Area shall consist of Iowa, Kansas,
Missouri, and Nebraska;
The Eighth Administrative Area shall include Colorado, Montana,
North Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming;
The Ninth Administrative Area shall consist of Arizona,
California, Hawaii, Nevada, American Samoa, Guam, North Mariana Islands, and
the Trust Territory of Pacific
Islands;
The Tenth Administrative Area shall include Alaska, Idaho,
Oregon, and Washington.
Furthermore, the Royal Preserve, as established by His Royal
Highness’s Magnum Concilium, shall consist of whichever Administrative Area he
shall be resident within.
ARTICLE TWO
AND FURTHER THAT subjects of His Royal Highness shall, unless His
Royal Highness’s Magnum Concilium provide otherwise, be considered resident in
that Administrative Area which includes the state of the United States or
Protectorates, in which they are considered by the aforementioned nations to be
legally resident.
ARTICLE THREE
AND FURTHER THAT inasmuch as it is desirable to provide for the
conduct of affairs in the said Administrative Areas by persons of unquestionable
probity and justice, so many Administrative Areas shall be placed under the
jurisdiction of a Duke or Duchess of the Sovereign Kingdom of Avalon with
Palatine Authority as the number of Dukes willing to assume such powers may
permit, & the Palatine Authority granted to such Dukes shall consist of
certain stated powers, which shall, in all placed not subject to a Duke so
empowered, remain the exclusive prerogatives of the officers, councils, or
commissions elsewhere vested with the said powers. The appointment of a Duke to
have Palatine Authority in an Administrative Area shall not operate to restrict
in any way the authority of His Royal Highness’s Government in the said
Administrative Area.
The powers granted to a Duke or Duchess with Palatine Authority
shall be as follows:
1.
The Dukes
shall have at their discretion the authority to confer the rights, styles,
titles, and dignities of Baron and Baronet on those of His Royal Highness’s
subjects resident within their Administrative
Areas;
2.
The Dukes
may summon advisory Councils from those of His Royal Highness’s subjects
resident within their Administrative
Areas;
3.
The Dukes
may issue charters to subjects of His Royal Highness resident within their
Administrative Areas, provided, that the privileges granted to business
corporations under such charters shall not obtain outside the Administrative
Areas concerned and that no municipality or other corporation created under such
a charter shall be granted the privilege of electing representatives to the
Magnum Concilium: The possession of such a charter shall not prevent the
participants from later seeking the more extensive privileges of a Charter
Royal;
4.
The Dukes
may establish ordinances and laws for the specific needs of their Administrative
Areas, provded that no such law or ordinance shall serve to contravene the
implied or expressed will or law of the Magnum Concilium or of any other Royal
Council nor any of the duly ratified treaties made by His Royal Highness’s
Government, which laws and treaties together constitute the supreme law of the
land, and further provided that a copy of all such laws and ordinances shall be
deposited with the Lord Chancellor of the Sovereign Kingdom of Avalon within
three months of the time of proclamation of such law or ordinance, unless the
Royal Councils provide for some other system of deposit of such
records;
5.
The Dukes
shall also have all the powers of Governors-General as hereinafter enumerated,
including any and all those which may be granted in subsequent
legislation.
The following Dukes are hereby appointed to have Palatine
Authority in the Administrative Areas specified, to wit: the Duchess of del
Acqs, the Sixth Administrative Area; the Duke of Don, the Eighth Administrative
Area.
Further appointments of Dukes to have Palatine Authority shall be
made by the Magnum Concilium and only the Magnum Concilium shall have the power
to rescind the appointment of any Duke to have such
powers.
When an Administrative Area has been placed under the
jurisdiction of a Duke as hereinbefore provided the said Administrative Area
shall be for all official purposed designated “The Palatine Duchy of” followed
by the name of the Dukedom involved, so that the Eighth Administrative Area
shall be designated the Palatine Duchy of Don, and so
forth.
ARTICLE FOUR
AND FURTHER THAT there shall be a Governor-General for each of
those Administrative Areas not placed under the Palatine Authority of a Duke and
that the said Governors-General shall be empowered as follows, to
wit:
The Governor-General shall be the immediate representative and
agent of the Pendraig and his Councils in the Administrative Area and as such
shall be responsible to His Royal Highness for the execution of the laws of the
realm within the Administrative Area and the maintenance of well-ordered
business therein; and shall except when otherwise provided supervise and direct
any activities conducted in his Administrative Area by agencies of His Royal
Highness’s Government;
All Governors-General shall supervise the election of the
Administrative Area’s representatives to the Magnum
Concilium;
And, lest the subjects of His Royal Highness resident in those
Administrative Areas not subject to the Palatine Authority of a Duke suffer any
disability as a result of the place of their residence, the Magum Concilium is
hereby empowered to grant special charters to subjects of His Royal Highness
resident in such Administrative Areas when the Governor-General of an
Administrative Area may so recommend, provided that such special charters shall
be subject to the same restrictions as those charters granted by Dukes having
Palatine Authority and that the possession of a special charter shall not
prevent the participants from later seeking the more extensive privileges of a
Charter Royal.
ARTICLE FIVE
AND FURTHER THAT the Dukes having Palatine Authority may employ
any or all of the officers of their households in the government of their
Palatine Duchies provided that the employment of household officers in such a
manner shall not operate to weaken or vacate the legal distinction between such
a Duke’s Palatine Duchy and the actual Duchy to which he would be entitled if
His Royal Highness’s realms were still located in other lands beyond the
Atlantic Sea.
Especially the Dukes having Palatine Authority may employ their
private Guards for the defense against invasion of and the maintenance of order
in their Palatine Duchies, provided that Guards so employed shall not be
recruited from any place other than the Palatine Duchy in which they are to be
so employed that that no Duke having Palatine Authority shall wage war against
another such Duke, or against any but treasonous subjects of His Royal
Highness, nor shall any such Duke aggressively engage in hostilities without a
formal declaration of war by the Pendraig or the Magnum Concilium. No other
subject of His Royal Highness, except for those so empowered by the Pendraig or
any future legislation, shall, raise or maintain any armed guard or troop of
soldiery whatsoever.
GIVEN
at the Capital of the High King, the Pendraig, on the third day of the month of
April, in the year two thousand and thirteen.