# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S629
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APPEAL MATTERS 629

"since there is a possibility of appeal to Synod’s Board.
hanging Article I,1 to read:

7g d of Appeals of Synod shall consist of six (eight)
hand five (seven) laymen, two of whom may be teachers.”

Boarp oF APPEALS
Paut F. KoEHNEKE, Chairman M.E. Mayer, Secretary

, section V. This includes Memorial 904 containing the
s for appeals.

Report of the Appeals Board No. II

, (Memorial 903)

the reports of the reviewing committee on the opinions
by the Board of Appeals in the Owensville-Melcher ap-
the action of the Western District and the Pannkoke
rom the action of the English District had been referred
Saginaw Convention of 1944 to a special committee headed
a’President of the Atlantic District, the Rev. H. J. Rippe, this
ttee brought in the following report, which was adopted by
(Proceedings, 1944, p. 354):

HEREAS, Your Committee had been appointed to take under
ment the suggestions made by President Behnken this morn-
(“has been instructed by this convention to embody in a
on certain proposals made by the venerable President con-
all cases of appeal not yet adjudicated; and

‘HEREAS, This convention desires that consideration, love, and
be maintained in the conduct of all its business; and
HEREAS, There is a natural tendency for feelings to run high ©
the open discussion of the cases before this convention; and
e*..““Wiereas, The rules of procedure have been questioned and,
Rappears to your committee, with some justification; and
-“Waereas, It is the desire of this convention to bring these
.to a God-pleasing conclusion as soon as possible; there-
S be it

“Resolved, That the cases of appeals not yet adjudicated and
fore the convention be referred back to the Board of Appeals
that the same be reviewed de novo and an adjudication made
me soon as possible; and be it furthermore

“Resolved, That the members of the Board of Appeals who
ve acted in these cases disqualify themselves in the further con-
eration of the same.”

‘Pursuant to the resolutions incorporated in the foregoing re-
the Board organized to carry them out. It developed that all
t