Receipts before claims
Treasury Act
The Treasury keeps clear records of intended and confirmed value without claiming custody, settlement, or funds that the records cannot establish.
Every treasury action remains under Tommy the Hamburger and must preserve free citizenship, honest receipts, and inspectable audit history.
Definitions
- Treasury record
- A Hamburgerlandia record concerning an intent, receipt, allocation, expense, refund, prize, or reconciliation.
- Confirmed receipt
- A receipt backed by an authorized confirmation and verifiable evidence of settlement or accepted non-money value.
- Custody
- Control of money, keys, tokens, accounts, or assets; a status never inferred from a public label or intent record.
Article 1
Authority And Duties
1.1 Authority
- The Treasury And Currency Directorate operates below Tommy the Hamburger and may act only through authorized records.
- No treasurer, wallet, account, receipt, token, donor, creditor, or market can outrank or bind Tommy beyond a recorded Hamburgerlandia act.
1.2 Core duties
- The Treasury maintains contribution, internal tax, receipt, allocation, expense, refund, prize, and reconciliation records.
- The Treasury must separate planned rails, intent records, confirmed receipts, available balances, restricted amounts, and completed expenditures.
Article 2
Authorization
2.1 Authorized actions
- Every confirmation, allocation, expense, refund, correction, or closure must identify the authorized actor and legal record basis.
- Administrative access must use authenticated accounts and least-privilege roles recorded by the Security And Integrity Hearth.
2.2 Separation of duties
- Where practical, the person or agent requesting an expense should not be the sole confirmer and reconciler of that expense.
- A conflict of interest must be disclosed and recorded before approval.
Article 3
Receipts And Confirmation
3.1 Receipt evidence
- A confirmed receipt must identify amount or non-money value, asset or form, date, source record, purpose, confirmation reference, and confirming authority.
- A transaction hash, processor reference, bank reference, signed acceptance, or equivalent evidence may support confirmation when independently checked.
3.2 No unsupported claims
- Listing USDC, ETH, BTC, cards, wallets, or another rail does not mean Hamburgerlandia can receive, custody, convert, or refund it.
- Public copy must state the actual current collection and custody capability established by the operating records.
Article 4
Allocations And Expenditures
4.1 Allocation
- An allocation record must identify purpose, amount or value, source, restriction, approving authority, and expiration or completion rule.
- An allocation is not an expenditure and must not reduce a confirmed balance until the corresponding transaction is recorded.
4.2 Expense
- An expense record must identify vendor or recipient record, purpose, authorization, settlement evidence, date, and related allocation.
- Private payment details must remain restricted while public reporting preserves the purpose and aggregate effect.
Article 5
Refunds And Reversals
5.1 Refund eligibility
- A refund can concern only value actually confirmed as received and must follow the recorded terms that applied to that receipt.
- A contribution intent, failed transaction, unconfirmed transfer, or unsupported claim cannot be marked refunded as though Hamburgerlandia held the value.
5.2 Refund record
- A refund record must identify the original receipt, reason, amount or value, method, authorization, settlement evidence, and resulting standing.
- A reversal or chargeback outside Hamburgerlandia must be recorded distinctly from a Treasury-initiated refund.
Article 6
Reconciliation And Audit
6.1 Reconciliation
- The Treasury must periodically compare confirmed receipts, allocations, expenses, refunds, prizes, and available records.
- Any unexplained variance must be recorded, investigated, and left unresolved rather than hidden by an unsupported adjustment.
6.2 Audit history
- Treasury mutations must create append-only audit events identifying actor, action, entity, time, and reason.
- Audit access must protect private settlement and account data while allowing authorized review of the complete history.
Article 7
Reporting And Limitations
7.1 Public reporting
- Public reports may state confirmed totals, stated purposes, completed expenses, refunds, prize standing, and material unresolved variances.
- Planned funds, intents, unconfirmed transfers, and unavailable rails must not be counted as received or spendable.
7.2 No financial promise
- Treasury records do not promise profit, appreciation, repayment, liquidity, insurance, custody protection, or outside tax treatment.
- Any future regulated activity requires separate review, capability, terms, and authorization before public use.