# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S812
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CONVENTION MINUTES

To have all money resolutions state whether or not the Floor
Committee concurred (TB:243, 14B);

To have the Board of Directors, the Controller, the Treasurer,
and the Stewardship Department be advisers to the Floor
Committee on Finances (TB:242—243, 14C);

To adopt the addendum to Section 2.79, i, of the Handbook as
found in Today’s Business, p. 244 (T'B:244, 17);

To have the Board of Directors initiate fiscal policies for capi-
tal investment governing the handling of unexpended capital
funds, short-term loans, and their amortization, study these
fiscal policies, and submit recommendations to the 1959 con-
vention (TB:242, 13).

Dr. W. H. Schlueter, member of the Board of Directors since
1923, Treasurer for the past 14 years, presented the financial pic-
ture of Synod for the past decade.

The sessions were closed with the Votum.

Session 15

June 28, P.M.

The fifteenth session was opened with devotional exercises
conducted by Rev. H. G. Kleinert, President of the English District.
The minutes were read and adopted.

Committee 6 presented its resolutions regarding the selection
of the editor of the Lutheran Witness. Section 11.81 of the Hand-
book was amended as suggested by the Committee. The fourth
Resolution was amended by inserting the words “the objectives
and functions of the Lutheran Witness and” after the word “study”
in line 33 of Today’s Business, p.73. The fifth Resolution was
amended by inserting the words “the objectives and functions of
Der Lutheraner and” after the word “study.” The amended reso-
lutions were then adopted, the motion to strike part of Resolution 3
having been lost (TB:173,17). The four Presidents of the Districts
represented in the State of Georgia were requested to confer in
order to adjust the status of the congregations in the State of
Georgia, which was included in the Florida-Georgia District
(TB:211, 18). The boundary of the Atlantic District was extended
to include the State of New Jersey, and Holy Trinity Lutheran
Church of Trenton, N.J., was transferred to the Atlantic District,
satisfactory arrangements to be made with the Church Extension
Board of the Eastern District (7B:211, 19). The proposed change of
Handbook, Section 8.71, was adopted (TB:212, 20). A Survey Com-
mittee of 13 members is to be established in order to study the
organization, administration, management, and operation of Synod’s