# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S712
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

128 CONSTITUTIONAL MATTERS

Wuereas, Paragraph 137 of the proposed new By-Laws té
Constitution of Synod provides that “every circuit of approxima
fifteen advisory members of the clergy and approximately
fifteen teachers of Lutheran elementary schools shall be entitl
one representative,” etc.; and

WHEREAS, It is evident that many District Electoral Circuits a!
much larger than the old or the proposed By-Laws to the
stitution of Synod stipulate; and

WuereaS, The attendance at the conventions of the Delega:
Synod is ever growing, making it more and more difficult to enter,
tain the conventions; therefore be it ?

Resolved, That we recommend to the honorable Synod, in ¢
vention at Saginaw, Michigan, from June 21 to 30, 1944, to cha
paragraph 131 of the proposed new By-Laws to its Constitutio:
read: “Every ten to fifteen member congregations shall form
electoral circuit which shall elect one pastor and.one layman

their alternates to represent them at the conventions of Synod,” ett
and be it further

Resolved, That we recommend to said Synod to change par
graph 137 of the proposed new By-Laws to its Constitution to re:
“Every circuit of approximately twenty advisory members of:
clergy and approximately every twenty teachers of Lutheran e
mentary schools shall be entitled to one representative,” etc.

THe Micutcan District Councn®
per W. F. Hacen, G. M. Kracwig

[505]
Reduction of Number of Delegates to Convention
BRETHREN: ,

The Visitors of the North Wisconsin District recommend tha
Synod reduce the number of delegates and change paragraph 13.
in Handbook — “Every five to ten member congregations, etc.” —
to read, “Every ten to fifteen member congregations shall form
electoral circuit, etc.”

The number of delegates to Synod is clearly becoming too
large, unwieldy, and increasingly difficult to house. An equal
reduction of delegates will not infringe upon the representati
rights of any congregation.

VIsIrors oF THE NortH WIscoNsIN Disrrr
E. W. Feipscuer, Secretary