The purpose of this bill is to set a procedure for giving out bounties. Our current system suffers from these problems:I. Bounties
1. The Imperial Government will have an official budget each month to spend on bounties.
a. This budget will start at 300 erb/month
b. The Kaiser or Landsraad can change this budget at any time.
2. The Minister of Trade will confer about bounties with a committee of his choosing.
a. This committee must contain no fewer than three people from no fewer than three Duchies.
b. This committee's decisions can be vetoed by the Kaiser or Landsraad.
3. The committee will distribute the bounty money among people who have done good work for Shireroth.
a. Ministers should get at least a token amount of 10 erb if not negligent, and an additional bounty if they have done especially good work for their ministry equal to the bounty that work would receive in a non-ministerial context.
b. All decisions about bounties will be public.
4. The Praetor and Arbiter will receive a fixed 30 erb bounty, not part of the the 300 erb pot, per month if not negligent.
1) There's no guidelines to how much a bounty should be.
2) There's nothing to prevent the MiniTrade from giving out too much money too quickly.
3) There are no checks on the MiniTrade's power to hand out money.
4) It doesn't include a system of Minister salaries.
This bill puts bounties on a fixed monthly budget and gives the Ministers a minimum salary plus the chance to earn more bounties. It also gives the Praetor and arbiters fixed monthly salaries. The salaries are low, but the positions should be ones that people want to do out of patriotism and not for financial compensation. In every government, government positions are paid less than a similarly qualified person could earn in the business world.
This suggests a government bounty budget of 360 per month, which is a lot, but our citizens are worth it.
I think the bounty system for officials is a good way to go too. I do hope the Judex is included. 
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