sea bed mining, page-19

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The motion was in response to a request from a poster to place certain arguments and propostions to the TO's. I did that in his behalf. Obviously it was not a mass meeting of TO's, but the TO's of the Forum re Sea Country have always considered a quorum to be enough TO's, in the correct Kinship configuration, constituting Authority, to satisfy their decision making processes in regard to a particular decision. The TO's present were satisfied (fourteen in total) that they had the right to pass that motion...otherwise they wouldn't have passed it.

And you're right GOT doesn't need to negotiate with the TO's over their sea based tenements, although I'd suggest that strategically it would be a mistake if they didn't.