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88 THE PRAESIDIUM CHAPTER 14
above the standards of spirit and work created by their
officers. Therefore, the latter must be the best obtainable. If
the labourer is to be accounted worthy of his hire, surely the
legionary should be deemed worthy of leadership!
The appointment of a succession of good officers should
mean that the quality of the praesidium will constantly
improve. For each new officer, while jealously guarding
against the lowering of existing standards, will make his own
distinctive contribution which will in turn become part of the
fabric of the praesidium.

14. Especially should the appointment of the President be
the subject of anxious thought. A mistake in this direction
may ruin the praesidium. Choice should only be made after
viewing each possible person in the light of the requirements
which are set out later in chapter 34, section 2 on the
President. Persons likely to fail in these directions should on
no account be selected, even though their merits in other
directions may be great.
15. Except very special reasons to the contrary exist, the
Curia must make the changing of the President the
accompaniment of the reorganisation of a defective
praesidium. In almost every case, the falling-away lies in the
neglect or the inability of the President to govern.
16. During probation a legionary can only hold an acting
or temporary officership in a senior praesidium. If that
officership has not been withdrawn during the probation
period, it then becomes full officership, and the time already
served counts as part of the three years’ term referred to
above.

17. No member of a praesidium shall leave it to join
another without the consent of the President of the former,
and the admission of such person into the latter shall be done
in accordance with the Statutes and the rules for the
admission of new members, except that the probation and
the Promise shall not be required. The said permission, when
asked, should not be unreasonably withheld. An appeal in
this matter lies to the Curia.