# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S467
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

CONSTITUTIONAL MATTERS 467

ARTICLE Vi — BYLAWS
This Corporation shall have and make such Bylaws as may be
necessary to accomplish its purposes and shall have power to
create such offices, committees, and other subordinate bodies as
may be necessary to accomplish its general and special objects.

ARTICLE VIII — AMENDMENTS

Amendments to these Articles of Incorporation may be made
at any time at a regularly called meeting of this Corporation by
a majority of the voting delegates present at such meeting, provided
such amendments are not inconsistent with the Constitution or the
laws of the United States or the State of Missouri and are there-
after submitted to be approved by the Circuit Court of the City
of St. Louis, Missouri.

And be it further

Resolved, (2) That Counsel for Synod be directed to take
proper legal proceedings to accomplish the above Amendment of
Charter.

Changing Name of Brazil District
(Unprinted Memorial 37)
ACTION
Upon recommendation of Committee 6, Synod resolved:

Resolution 31

Wuereas, Our brethren of the Brazil District believe it would
facilitate their work to modify their name, and have so requested;
therefore be it

Resolved, To approve the change of the name of the Brazil
District from “Sinodo Evangelico Luterano do Brasil” (“Evan-
gelisch Lutherische Synode von Brasilien”) to ‘Igreja Evangelica
Luterana do Brasil” (“Evangelisch Lutherische Kirche von Bra-
silien”).

Re Research Commission on Efficiency and Economy
(Memorial 502)

1. Wuereas, Christian stewardship dictates the most effective,
efficient, and economical use of time, talents, money, and men for
Kingdom work; and

2. Wuereas, The opinion appears quite widespread that there

is room for improvement in the practical application of this prin-
ciple to the work of The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod; and

3. Wuereas, Administrative costs have, in recent years, in-
creased disproportionately in relation to productive enterprises; and