# Counsel Attestation

**Document:** Counsel Attestation  
**Effective date:** 8 June 2026  
**Attestation status:** Counsel Attested  
**Signatory:** /s/ Pandora C. Walker, Esq.  
**Title:** Chief Counsel, Digital Bank of International Settlements  
**Counsel firm:** Roy Walker, PLLC (Roy Walker Law PLLC) · Colorado Entity 20231273347

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## Purpose

This attestation records Chief Counsel review of portal disclosures and machine-readable governance artefacts for [d-bis.org](https://d-bis.org). Supporting appointment, charter, and treasury governance materials are treated as **internal governance and appointment artifacts** — not as evidence of sovereign recognition, treaty authority, diplomatic accreditation, or external governmental endorsement.

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## Scope of attestation

Counsel attests, as of **8 June 2026**, that:

### 1. Portal governance disclosures

Institutional disclaimers, governance notices, member classifications, officer descriptions, appointment references, and member-tier designations published on the portal reflect counsel-reviewed and counsel-approved copy.

Counsel confirms that published descriptions are internally consistent with the current governance framework, appointments, charters, mandates, and treasury authorities reflected in the governing records.

### 2. Machine-readable governance alignment

Counsel confirms that:

- `/.well-known/trust.json`
- `/governance.json`
- `/policy.json`

are synchronized with and accurately represent the canonical **Chain 138 → Stack A → PMM Registry**, and that no material conflicts have been identified between the machine-readable registry and the corresponding portal disclosures.

### 3. Governance and appointment consistency

Counsel confirms that published governance narratives are consistent with:

- governing charters
- officer appointments
- treasury mandates
- judicial and diplomatic authority frameworks
- continuing appointment instruments
- internal governance resolutions

including the continued appointment and authority structures described in the supporting records.

### 4. GRU portal publications

GRU portal governance narratives are marked **Counsel Attested** where applicable in `policy.json`.

For any referenced treaty, charter, diplomatic, treasury, judicial, or governance instrument whose executed PDF has not yet been publicly released:

> **Executed instrument exists but publication remains pending.**

No representation is made that unpublished documents are publicly available.

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## Required limitations

1. **This attestation is a governance and records-consistency review only.**
2. **This attestation is not a sovereign treaty instrument.**
3. **This attestation is not an external audit opinion.**
4. **This attestation is not legal advice to third parties.**
5. **This attestation does not constitute recognition, accreditation, licensing, diplomatic status determination, governmental endorsement, or sovereign validation by any external state, court, regulator, or international organization.**

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## Publication

**Counsel attestation package — published 8 June 2026**

The following artefacts are publicly released on [d-bis.org](https://d-bis.org):

- [/counsel-attestation.json](/counsel-attestation.json)
- [/counsel-attestation.md](/counsel-attestation.md)
- Portal attestation copy on [/legal](/legal) and [/governance](/governance)
- [/governance-documents.json](/governance-documents.json) — document registry (SHA-256 verified PDFs ingested upon counsel release)

Executed treaty, charter, appointment, and headquarters PDFs remain **publication pending** until ingested into the registry. Where an executed instrument has not been publicly released:

> **Executed instrument exists but publication remains pending.**

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## Machine-readable companion

Structured record: [/counsel-attestation.json](/counsel-attestation.json)

Governance document registry: [/governance-documents.json](/governance-documents.json)

Validation checklist: `docs/COUNSEL_ATTESTATION_VALIDATION_CHECKLIST.md` (repository)

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/s/ Pandora C. Walker, Esq.  
Chief Counsel  
Digital Bank of International Settlements  
8 June 2026