The Procedure is this:
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<li>The Petition and Payment are received at Headquarters.</li>
<li>After what the Chivalry Committee Chairman feels is sufficient discussion, he puts the question to a vote.</li>
<li>Should the majority of the Committee vote to recommend recognition, the Chivalry Chairman conveys such to the [[Board]] via the [[Assistant Secretary]]. He must also confirm the rank and postnominals appropriate. Note that a favorable recommendation requires assent from a majority of the members of the Committee, less any who are obliged to recuse themselves. The number, but not the identity, of those assenting must be submitted to Headquarters.</li>
<li>The [[Assistant Secretary]] will check the postnominals against the list of [[Postnominals]], and if new, so inform the [[Assistant Webmaster for ENS]] that he may add them to the list.</li>
<li>The Assistant Secretary places the recommendation on the next available Board [[Agendae|Agenda]]. Normally, it is placed in the [[Consent Calendar]], but if either the Chivalry Committee Chairman or Assistant Secretary believe the matter will be subject to debate, it is placed under New Business instead. (It may also be pulled from the Consent Calendar by any [[Directors|Director]] present at the meeting.)</li>
Notes:
* <ul><li>Recommendations may be recalled by the Chivalry Committee Chairman (or Chivalry Committee Vice-Chairman, if the Chairman is unavailable or unresponsive) if they are received by the Assistant Secretary before the start of the Board meeting. Such recalls should only be made when new information has been uncovered that might cause the recommendation to be reversed. They are not appropriate if a change in the vote results from changes in Committee membership.</li>* <li>Recommendations from the Royalty & Nobility Committee may be recalled in the same way, and if received the Chivalric recognition recommendation will also be recalled.</li>* <li>If the Board declines to recognize a required title of nobility, recognition of membership and rank will automatically be declined.</li> <li>The [[Chivalry Committee Chairman]] may, at his discretion, waive fees charged to [[Directors]] and members of the Chivalry Committee.</ul>
The above is a first draft of the Procedure and Notes, and may well need adjustment or additions once the Chivalry Committee has commented upon it.
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