High Presidium of the Benacian Union/Important matters

Record of Decisions

1704 AN – 1708 AN Session

Year	M	D	Item	Outcome	Comment
1704 AN	III	11	Peace of Lapano	Endorsed	Although a private treaty, the High Presidium committed to ensuring that the provisions of the Peace of Lapano will be implemented where pertinent to the institutions and interests of the Benacian Union.
1704 AN	III	12	Prohibition of the Passikaans language	Upheld (Partial exemption)	After a review of a Passikaans lexicon, provided by the Mission in Highpass, it has been deemed prudent to maintain the prohibition on the use of language, as mandated by Congress. Nonetheless, for BUDF personnel posted to Highpass or the frontier, it has been deemed necessary to establish a School of Prohibited Languages in Peroz-Liv, subordinate to the Benacian Academy to provide a level of basic instruction. The order was accordingly given to arrange for the abduction of a Highpasser and their removal to Peroz-Liv to provide an explanation of the rudiments of the low tongue to the learned magisters of the Academy.

1698 AN – 1703 AN Session

Year	M	D	Item	Outcome	Comment
1699 AN	III	22	Petition for a Decree of Annulment (Ayesha al-Osman petitioner v. Isor Verion respondent)	Hearing Authorised	The petitioner accused the respondent of infidelity, marital neglect, desertion, treasonable associations, and heresy. The High Presidium was convinced of the merit of the case and dispatched Ahmst Mairstranin Abner Shas of the Adjutant General's Corps and his retinue to Shirekeep as its duly appointed bailiff to serve a summons upon Isor Verion and to bring him back to Chryse by any appropriate method within his means. The respondent fled to Cimmeria and subsequent correspondence has been of a vexatious nature. A unanimous decision was made to hear the petition in the absence of the respondent; a representative being appointed to uphold his interest.
1699 AN	XII	20	Decision Pertaining to the Matter Previously Discussed in Camera	Approved	Authorisation to proceed was given regarding a matter of importance, the nature of which was not to be discussed with any unauthorised person below the Archonic/Higher Executive grades of Benacia Command, the Honourable Company, or the Nationalist & Humanist Party.
1701 AN	I	11	Formation of the Benacian Security Council	Approved	Benacian Security Council, chaired by the Szodan of Benacia, to be formed comprised of the Presidium and senior defence, security, economic, and foreign policy professionals, to advise on matters pertaining to the safety of the union and for the development of top level strategies relating to threats and opportunities identified thereby.
1701 AN	I	11	Formation of the General Staff Council of the Benacian Union Defence Force	Approved	Commissioner of Defence to appoint President of the General Staff Council, who holds the post for four years, and who in turn nominates banner officers to head the three service branches of the BUDF as well as the seven specialist support directorates of the General Staff itself.
1701 AN	I	11	Formation of the Benacian Union Defence Force	Approved	Under the authority and supervision of the Benacian Security Council, the Commissioner of Defence, and the President of the General Staff Council, the amalgamation and consolidation of the Black Legions and the Union Defence Force into the Benacian Union Defence Force to commence from this date and be completed within four years.
1703 AN	I	2	Establishment of the Order of the Red Hand	Approved	Proposal to establish a civic and military order to recognise meritorious service to the Union approved by a unanimous decision.
1703 AN	V	12	Sanama	Concluded	Discussion regarding Sanama following its civil war and departure from the Raspur Pact. Communalism discussed. Egalitarian heresy. Difference to communism is not a meaningful one. Meeting briefly interrupted by repeated shouts of "Marg bar Tudeh kuffar". Order restored. Resumption of oil imports exceeds in terms of need that of the maintenance of ideological purity. Recommendation that visitors to and from Sanama shall no longer be subject to the Rite of Exorcism was accepted.