# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1959_S248
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248 RESOLUTIONS — COMMITTEE 6
6.101 Electors

“a. Professors, associate professors, and the required admin-
istrative officers, for all positions officially created by the Synod
for each of the Synod’s educational institutions in North America
shall be called by the respective Board of Control in accordance
with the regulations of the Synod. At a meeting of the Board of
Control held for the purpose of electing professors, associate pro-
fessors, or such administrative officers, or for the purpose of con-
sidering final action relevant to the suspension or the removal
from office of such professors, associate professors, or admin-
istrative officers, there shall be present and voting as electors:
the Board of Control as a group, with one vote (the President
of the synodical District not voting with his Board of Control);
the President of the synodical District in which the institution is
located or his official representative; the President of the Synod or
his official representative; the chairman of the Board for Higher
Education or his official representative. The president of the in-
stitution shall be present in an advisory capacity.

“b. In the case of the Synod’s educational institutions in South
America the same procedure set forth in the preceding paragraph
shall be followed, except that the chairman of the Board for Mis-
sions in North and South America or his official representative
shall be one of the electors in the place and stead of the chairman
of the Board for Higher Education or his official representative.”

Action: This resolution was adopted.

Staggering Election of District Officers
RESOLUTION 30, COMMITTEE 6

Memorial 509-A, page 460, Reports and Memorials

Wuereas, The 1956 synodical convention referred to the Col-
lege of Presidents for study and recommendation a memorial pre-
sented to that convention relative to the staggering of the election
of officers in the Districts; and

Wuenreas, The College of Presidents has submitted its recom-
mendations in Memorial 509-A; therefore be it

Resolved, That Article XII, Section 5 of the Constitution of
the Synod be amended to read:
“The election and time of service of the District officers shall

be determined by the Bylaws of the Constitution of the Synod”;
and be it further

Resolved, That the following paragraphs be added to the By-
laws of the Constitution of the Synod:

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