# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S446
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446 CONSTITUTIONAL MATTERS
There is much demand for
stitutions and bylaws.
guidelines prepared by
gregations, without ver

guidelines for congregational con-
The committee carefully reviewed such
Rev. E. Kettner and others, so that con-
bally copying the guidelines, can compose
their own constitutions and bylaws according to this pattern, mak-
ing necessary changes to suit their local circumstances,

Another meeting of the committee will be held to examine

overtures coming before the convention which affect the Constitu-
tion and Bylaws of Synod. (Section 2.113 b.)
M. F. Krerzmann, Secretary
ACTION
The following resolutions, brought in by Committee 6, disposed
of the items in this report:

Resolution 2

Subject: Membership of Synod’s Board of Directors

The Houston Convention referred to the Committee on Con-

stitutional Matters Memorial 802, Proceedings 1953, pp. 482 and 483,
recommending to amend Handbook, Section 2.71, as follows:

“The Board of Directors
President, the Secretary,
their office, and one past
in the United States an

shall be constituted as follows: The
and the Treasurer of Synod by virtue of
or or layman from each District of Synod

d Canada with a total communicant mem-
bership of twenty-five thousand or over, to be elected according

to Synod’s rules.” The memorial also provided that “if possible,
an equal number of pastors and laymen be elected,”

The Committee on Constituti
reason for the change. We
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Houston.

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1. At present the various sections of Synod from coast to coast
and from the North and the South are represented. (Norte: South-
ern California, Texas, Kansas, Northern Illinois, South Wisconsin,
Michigan, English [Indiana], Southeastern, Western, Central.)

2. To increase the membership would make the Board too large
and unwieldy, not to mention the additional expense. (Note: There
are at present 20 Districts in North America with more than 25,000
communicants and two more that could go beyond 25,000 during
the next triennium. That would mean 20 voting members from
those Districts plus President, Secretary, and Treasurer, for a total
of 23 now, and 25 in three years, plus the four Vice-Presidents as
advisory members.) Committee 6 (Houston): “An increase in the
size of the Board of Directors would rather retard than increase

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