[Ansteorra] Fee Increase and other Business...

[tmcd at panix.com]

I found some stuff in the Society Seneschal's Handbook that applies to
today's discussions.  *...* represents boldface in the original.
<http://www.sca.org/docs/pdf/SocSenHandbook-200510.pdf>, page 47 as
numbered by Adobe Acrobat:

   XII. Membership Drives

   A. Membership drives should stick to encouraging people to join the
      SCA.  Branches are welcome to hand out forms, discuss benefits
      of membership, and provide lower site fees for members (beyond
      not paying the NMS), if Kingdom law and custom allow the
      difference.  They can even offer memberships as prizes *if the
      funds to buy the prize memberships are donated and are not SCA
      funds* (It is not allowed to use SCA funds to buy personal
      memberships).  However, except with special authorization, no
      one but the Registry is authorized to sell memberships in the
      SCA!  Tell your local Seneschals not to collect membership forms
      and payments to be forwarded to the Registry, and have them try
      to stop anyone in the branch from doing so.  Such collections
      are often subject to delay or even outright loss, and the
      Registry always gets blamed for the trouble

Daniel de Lindo
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Tim McDaniel; Reply-To: tmcd at panix.com