# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S711
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

CONSTITUTIONAL MATTERS 127

Supreme Authority of General Conventions .

HEREAS, The 1941 convention of Synod in Fort Wayne after
lengthy discussion on the part of the delegates adopted the
wing resolution upon the report of Committee 2:
‘Resolved: 1. That $150,000.00, be appropriated annually for
on expansion;
‘2. That this sum be included in the budget, but raised over
‘above other budgeted items by a special effort, possibly during
Epiphany or the Reformation season or at some other time
gested by the Fiscal Conference;
3. That this sum be divided by the Fiscal Conference among
our missions at home and abroad” (see Proceedings, 1941,
e191); and
‘WuerEAs, However, several months later the Fiscal Confer-
e declined to carry out the above resolution of the General
convention or to make an attempt to do so; and
Wuereas, The economic conditions that have obtained during
e past three years plainly reveal that such a resolution might
have been carried out for the promotion of the cause of missions,
s: was the purpose of the above resolution of the last general
onvention; and
Wuereas, The aforementioned action of the Fiscal Conference
nds to militate against the initiative of a General Convention
and to nullify any action which such a convention may take with
eference to financial matters, thus making a General Convention
with regard to these matters quite unnecessary; therefore be it
Resolved, That the execution of any such specific appropria-

‘of Directors and the Fiscal Conference.

THE PASTORAL CONFERENCE OF Fort WAYNE AND VICINITY

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x Enlarging Electoral Circuits

The Michigan District Council, in meeting today, adopted the
following resolution as an overture to Synod in convention at
Saginaw next June:

Wuersas, Paragraph 131 of the proposed new By-Laws to the
_ Constitution of Synod provides that “every five to ten member
- eongregations shall form an electoral circuit which shall elect one
pastor and one layman and their alternates to represent them at
the conventions of Synod,” etc.; and

tions of the general conventions be held binding upon the Board

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