PART 3: 27. Freehold Seals

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27. Freehold Seals

27.1 The Witan may provide a common seal for the society and may destroy a seal and substitute a new seal in its place.

27.2 The common seal must be affixed only when authorized by a resolution of the trustees, except:

(a) The freyr or freya may affix the seal on a resolution arising out of a judgment at the conclusion of a maethel if he or she solely comprises the maethel as per Section 3, or any other resolution made by the freyr or freya when directed by member resolution, in a manner consistent with these bylaws, to make a single-handed judgment on an unresolved question or point of business,
(b) when a new member’s oath or a new wita’s oath is validated by the Witan, the writer will impress the seal upon the oath document, and may do so single-handedly,
(c) when the speaker has obtained government approval on any amendment to Freehold law, he or she will impress the seal upon the facing page of a bound copy of current Freehold law as resolved and approved, and may do so single-handedly.

27.3 The Witan shall provide a seal specific to any active gild or shire requesting one, and may destroy a gild or shire seal and substitute a new seal in its place on request of the gild drighten or shire ealdorman.

27.4 The Witan may recall a gild or shire seal if it is deemed that the seal has not been used, or has been used in a manner inconsistent with these bylaws.

27.5 Individual gilds may affix their gild seal, if any, on gild oath documents, graduation or completion certificates, gild resolutions, gild thews, or other official gild correspondence, as they see fit, but only in the presence of the gild's drighten.

27.6 Shires may affix their shire seal on official documents only in the presence of the ealdorman of that shire.