A Resolution Concerning the Administrative Areas Act.

Proposed by the Duke of Numenor.

WHEREAS, His August Majestie's Most Honourable Privy Council did provide, in the New Administrative Areas Act of 7528, for Dukes of these Kingdoms to be granted Palatine Authority in the several Administrative Areas of the Exile and

WHEREAS, Dukes having Palatine Authority have from time to time since the passage of the said Act found it necessary to absent themselves for prolonged periods from their Palatine Duchies, and

WHEREAS, the said Act does not clearly provided for the delegation of Palatine Authority,

NOW THEREFORE BE IT Resolved by the Peers of the Realms and other Representatives of the true and faithful subjects of HIS AUGUST MAJESTIE THE KING of Gondor and Arnor in Council-General Assembled, THAT

His August Majestie's Most Honourable Privy Council be, and hereby is, directed to adopt legislation which shall provide a uniform mechanism by which Dukes having Palatine Authority may, with the consent of the Lord Great Steward, delegate specific portions of that Authority to one or more deputies, to be called "Lords Lieutenant," provided: that the authority to create peers, to legislate, and to raise armed forces shall not be delegable; that the provisions of the Judiciary Act of 7528 for appointment of surrogates to preside over the Courts Baron of Palatine Dukes shall remain unchanged; that Lords Lieutenant shall serve at the pleasure of their Palatine Dukes; and that the Lord Great Steward may, for specific cause stated, require a Palatine Duke to replace a Lord Lieutenant.

AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that, should His August Majestie's Most Honourable Privy Council have failed to adopt such legislation before the next session of the Council-General, the matter shall be considered as old business at that session.