Opening of the 1st Imperial Synkletos

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The following measures are introduced by the decision of the Permanent Standing Committee of the Synkletos and enacted by its own authority:

1. All rural (non-urban) households in the provinces of Aqaba, Mitra, Nivardom, and Varaz, shall be organised into communes of ten households under the authority of a Headman.
2. Each commune must provide one Home Guardsman, aged between 18 and 40, and contribute towards the cost of his maintenance.
3. Each commune must provide four corvée labourers, aged between 15 and 50, and contribute towards the cost of their maintenance.
4. In each province commissioners shall be appointed to apportion households, delineate communal boundaries, and conduct annual conscription assemblies, to be attended by all commune inhabitants.
5. The penalty for any person failing to attend a conscription assembly shall be automatic enrolment into the labour corvée.
6. For any offence committed by the member of a commune, the Headman shall be held accountable.
7. Penalties for individual infractions by members of a commune may, at the discretion of a magistrate, be visited upon all members of a commune collectively.
8. A member of a commune who reports to the authority, whether the magistrate, the gendarmerie, or the servants of the governor, an infraction or crime that has either been committed or is in commission by one or more of his fellow commune members shall receive a community trust reward, exemption from conscription, and immunity from the consequences of collective punishment if his accusations are borne out by subsequent investigation. If the accusation is determined to be false the accuser shall be automatically enrolled into the labour corvée.

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Permanent Standing Committee Session II
(Commenced: 17.VII.1670)

The Permanent Standing Committee met in closed session to debate the White Paper presented by Imperial Senator Dravot concerning the Five Year Plan.

The Committee on Finance met in closed session for the first reading of the Government Bill on Currency, Exchange and Banking (1670).

The Committee on Civil Defense and Emergencies met in closed session to discuss the proposed measure on the suspension of the export of foodstuffs for the remainder of the present year and the entirety of the next.