[Vote] Merchant Proposal

Should we vote this into law? Again, no matter the outcome of the vote, I feel we owe citizen ShaneHall a thank you and congratulations for working so hard on this. Thanks Shane for dedicating your time to this, and congratulations one starting your first bill!

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Merchants Proposal


Article 1 - Official Merchants

Article 1.1.1 An official merchant is a merchant who is working for a town or the Duchy. All profits made on the trip shall be for the town or Duchy that employed the merchant. Official merchants do not include those merchants working for personal profits.

Article 1.1.2 All official merchants shall be recognized as official employees.

Article 1.1.3 Official merchants working for a town must be approved by the town's mayor.

Article 1.1.4 Official merchants are to conduct themselves as respectful citizens, and shall always abide by the laws of the territory in which they travel.

Article 2 - Merchant Guild

Article 1.2.1 A Merchants Guild shall be created and approved by the Duchy.

Article 1.2.2 The purpose of the Merchants Guild is to uphold the rights of official merchants. The Guild will also work to train official merchants.

Article 1.2.3 The Merchants Guild is open for all to view and ask for help. However there will be areas of the Guild available to members only.
For example current merchant deals and contacts shall remain behind closed doors.

Article 1.2.4 Bylaws for the Guild shall be voted on by the members and approved by the Duchy Council. Any changes to the bylaws shall be presented to the council for approval.

Article 1.2.4 Speaker of the Merchants Guild will be elected by the members of the Guild. The Speaker will be the official representative of the Guild the the Duchy Council and the public. Term length for the Speaker will be established in the bylaws. (O.O.C. The Speaker shall be the moderator of the Guild forum.)

Article 3 - Payment

Article 1.3.1 All official merchants, employed by a town or the Duchy, will be paid by the Duchy.

Article 1.3.2 Official Merchants will be paid according to their charisma. The amount of pay is subject to change by the Duchy, and shall be discussed with the Merchants Guild.

Pay scale: 0-50 charisma equals 17 pounds pay per day of travel, 51-100 charisma equals 18 pounds per day of travel, 101 - 150 charisma equals 19 pounds per day, and 151+ equals 20 pounds per day.

Article 1.3.3 Each town within the Duchy of Somerset will be allocated 12 paid days of travel per month, beginning on the first day of each month. Each town may use their alloted 12 Days paid travel whenever they please, but unused days do not roll over to the following month.

Sounds right to me but I have a quick question. Lets say Chard sends someone to do business for the town can that person once he/she is there to do business for him/herself too or not? I'll vote as soon as I get an answer on this

Thorpe

Thorpe, I believe your question is addressed in the following article:

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Article 1.1.1 An official merchant is a merchant who is working for a town or the Duchy. All profits made on the trip shall be for the town or Duchy that employed the merchant. Official merchants do not include those merchants working for personal profits.

I do not give a hard yes or no to your question, Lord Thorpe. How do you interpret it? You don't really need to answer that publicly, but instead answer with your vote.

As much as I am in favor of this proposal I feel I must abstain due to an obvious conflict of interests (I am an official merchant).

Abstain.

Aye

Aye.

i voted aye but I should have abstained.

I have been given the proxy vote for Councilor Aeryn_Sun.

For Aeryn the vote is Aye.

(ooc. please not that I cannot click Aye on the poll counter at the top since I have already voted for myself. They Ayes should be one higher than it is right now.)

Thanks to those who voted. And thank you to citizen ShaneHall, for drafting this bill for our attention.

This measure passes.

Yes (Thanks Rebo for getting this in for me on time)