# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S447
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CONSTITUTIONAL MATTERS

the efficiency of the Board of Directors in its administrative func-
tions.”

3. Certain Districts could not be directly represented because
of their small size. (Note: This would not be a “democratic” pro-
cedure and could deprive Synod of the service of talented men
fitted for the task.)

4. Your floor committee amplifies the thought expressed by the
Committee on Constitutional Matters that on the Board of Directors
from the beginning there was always a majority of one layman,
because this Board dealt with and had the final responsibility for
financial matters in Synod. On the basis of these findings the Com-
mittee on Constitutional Matters suggests that we go along with
the reasoning and recommendations of Committee 6 in its report
to the Houston Convention, Proceedings, 1953, p. 483.

Committee 6 at Houston recommended that the memorial be
declined.

Your floor committee recommends the following:

Resolved, 1. That this convention concur in the recommenda-
tions of Floor Committee 6 at Houston and of the Committee on
Constitutional Matters that the memorial to increase the member-
ship of Synod’s Board of Directors by choosing a pastor or layman
from Districts with a total communicant membership of twenty-five
thousand or over be declined; and be it further

Resolved, 2. That the Committee on Nominations at future con-
ventions present candidates for membership on the Board of Di-
rectors from different areas of Synod.

Resolution 4

Subject: Handbook, Section 1.61, Rights of Advisory Members

Wuereas, Advisory pastors are not ordinarily entitled to vote
in synodical conventions; and

Wuereas, The status of advisory pastors temporarily serving
voting congregations has not always been clear so far as their right
to vote is concerned; therefore be it

Resolved, To change Handbook, Section 1.61, “Rights of Advis-
ory Members”:

“Advisory members of Synod shall be entitled to the floor and
may express their opinion the same as voting members. They may
submit overtures to Synod and may request voting members of
Synod to submit resolutions for them in order that matters in
which they are interested may be presented to Synod in the regular