[MR] Re: Queen's Arms with A New "Third Path" Suggestion on the Armory

[Blaise de Cormeilles]

On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 11:26:02PM -0500, Dave Montuori wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, David W. James wrote:
> > 	The exact wording of the Admin Handbook is:
> > 
> > "	5. Evidence of Support - Submissions involving the branch 
> > name or arms of an active branch must include evidence of support for 
> > the action on the part of a majority of the active members of the 
> > branch....." [snip]
> >
> > 	As you note, the "Queen's Arms" are not technically covered 
> > by this rule, as the Queen is not a group...
> 
> There is a Laurel precedent still in force, which *should* have been 
> put into the CoA Admin Handbook, and still should be -- which very clearly 
> states that arms for a Consort must also go through the petition process.
> This may in fact have been put in place in conjunction with the return of 
> our 1995 change to the Consort's arms. (The same change was eventually 
> registered the following year.)