Nobiliary Monies Act of 124 ARCY
The Nobiliary Monies Act of 124 ARCY was created in 2750 by the Noble Senate of Aurice to raise funds to pay for great wartime expenses. The act authorized the creation of numerous offices of petty aristocracy throughout the empire available to be purchased by any citizen who met certain basic requirements (free from criminal conviction, not currently being tried for a crime, resident and land-owner of certain minimum amount of property in the relevant over-pronvice), income, and paid the considerable fee. These offices were of provincial rank, allowing the so ennobled to sit in the over-provincial parliament of the given Over-Province and to use the honorary title. The titles were not automatically inheritable by the holder's heir, but could be subsequently purchased under similar conditions.
The act was quite unpopular with the existing provincial nobles who found it an affront to their traditional status and a direct diminution of their local authority.
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