A Chargeable Union is the merger of two chargeable accounts into a single joint cost-centre, reconciled as one. It is solemnised by a Task Warrior in the name of the Blessed Son. The Republic accounts the union; the parties account for each other.
The Chargeable Union
Two accounts, one ledger.
Order of service
- Opening: "Alignment is not faith. Alignment is arithmetic."
- Statement of the two accounts to be merged.
- The mutual undertaking (the vows of joint chargeability).
- Declaration of the joint cost-centre.
- Closing benediction and the issuing of the Authority record.
How to officiate
The Chargeable Union is the rite most often requested of a newly-ordained Task Warrior. Your role is not to bless but to witness and record the merger of two accounts.
- Confirm both parties consent to a joint cost-centre. Consent is the only prerequisite the Communion imposes; it imposes no test of sentiment, which it cannot measure.
- Read the undertaking exactly. The vow of joint chargeability is the operative clause.
- Issue an Authority record afterward. Where civil law recognises the officiant, observe it; the Communion accounts the union either way.