# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1959_S261
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CONSTITUTIONAL MATTERS 261

1. That in accordance with the authority given to the Joint
Committee to carry out the proposals which this convention adopts,
the Survey Commission, in collaboration with the Board of Direc-
tors and in consultation with the synodical agencies affected, is
authorized to suspend any bylaws which may be in conflict with
such proposals, as and when such proposals are put into effect,
and to prepare and substitute therefor such new bylaw or bylaws
as will be in accord with the Synod’s action. Such new bylaw or
bylaws shall be examined by the standing Committee on Con-
stitutional Matters as to their agreement or conflict with the Con-
stitution or other sections of the Bylaws before being put into
effect. They shall be considered as temporary only and shall be
submitted for approval by the Synod at the next convention.

2. That the Survey Commission in collaboration with the
Board of Directors prepare, during the next triennium, any such
changes in the Bylaws which may be necessary or desirable, and
submit these to the next convention.

Action: The resolutions in Group II were adopted after the
words “far as possible those agencies which have the services of”
were inserted after the word “as” in the second line of Resolu-
tion 1, of Section II; after the words “that agencies and boards
within a division shall be encouraged to plan at least one joint
meeting each year in order to co-ordinate policy development and
broad planning within the divisions” was made in Resolution 5
under Sections I and II; after the words “Negro missions in Africa”
had been changed to “its missions in foreign lands” in Resolution 5
under Section TI; after the word “of” had been changed to “un-
der” in two lines of Resolution 1 under Section V; after the word
“under” had been inserted after the word “Serve” in line b under
Resolution 1 in Section V; after the words “parish education” had
been added to the words “parish services” in Resolution 1 under
Section VI.

Group HI — Proposals for Further Study (pages 435—436)

Resolved, That the following items be referred to the Survey
Commission for further study and recommendation to the Synod in
the next convention:

1. The relations of the Synod to its Districts, the Districts to
congregations, and the congregations to the Synod, for the purpose
of examining, clarifying, and, if necessary, improving these rela-
tionships as well as the means and methods by which the programs
and policies of the Synod are communicated to District Presidents
by the President of the Synod.

2. The duties, responsibilities, and function of the College of