# LCMS Commission on Constitutional Matters Minutes_St. Louis Missouri_April 29 2003_S4
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

106. 3.7.5.2 (h)
107. 3.7.6.2 (b)
108. 3.8.1
109. 3.8.1.1 1
110. 3.8.1.2

Restore cross-reference to RSO chapter, line 20, p. 117
Should be a separate main bylaw, lines 6-8, p. 11
Rewrite to provide a better description, lines 3-5, p. 119
Move “appointed…Synod” after “once,” lines 8-9, p. 119
Delete words “and ensure…agencies.,” lines 35-36, p. 119

111. 3.8.2
112. 3.8.3.1 (c)
113. 3.8.3.2
114. 3.8.4
115. 3.8.5.5
116. 3.8.6
117. 3.8.6.2
118. 3.8.6.2 (1-2)
119. 3.9.1
120. 3.9.1.2

See former Bylaw 10.01 for wording, lines 23-27, p. 120
Replace “teachers” with “laypersons,” line 14, p. 121
Summary could be more descriptive, lines 18-19, p. 121
Use “exists to” language as per usual, line 49, p. 121
Restore section heading here and as helpful, line 22, p. 124
Use “exists to” language as per usual, line 18, p. 126
Delete “to develop…Lutheran worship.,” lines 35-38, p. 126
Move paragraphs to paragraph (c), lines 8-17, p. 127
Move to become function statement 3.9.1.2, lines 24-30, p. 127
Move to become purpose statement 3.9.1, lines 36-39, p. 127

121. 3.9.1
122. 3.9.1.2
123. 3.11
124. 3.11.1.2
125. 3.11.1.3
126. 3.11.1.3
127. 3.11.2
128. 3.11.2 (b)
129. 3.11.3
130. 3.11.3.1

Restore “regarding” in place of “pertaining to” line 26, p. 127
Replace “shall…opportunity” with “exists to enable,” line 36, p. 127
Delete “Nomination and Election of” from subtitle, line 28, p. 128
Change “manual” to “Workbook,” line 32, p. 129
Place parentheses around “s” of “nominee(s), line 8, p. 130
Restore cross-reference, line 11, p. 130
Delete “Nomination…the” from subtitle, line 4, p. 131
Restore cross-reference, line 18, p. 131
Change to “Committee for Convention Nominations,” line 22, p. 131
Capitalize “D” in districts, line 30, p. 131

131. 3.11.3.2
132. 3.11.3.5
133. 3.11.3.7 (c)
134. 3.11.3.7 (c)
135. 3.11.3.9
136. 4.1.2 (b) (4)
137. 4.1.6
138. 4.2
139. 4.4.1 (a) (b)
140. 4.4.1 (c)

Change right column reference to 3.980, a-b, line 44, p. 131
Include Bylaw 3.980 c in reference column, line 43, p. 132
Delete “in writing” (substantive change), line 48, p. 133
Restore cross-reference, line 50, p. 133
Insert section heading, “Committee on Elections,” line 17, p. 134
Restore old language, lines 1-2, p. 137
Restore former language and cross references, lines 17-18, p. 138
Use same wording as for Synod conventions, lines 36-38, p. 138
Combine paragraphs as in original, lines 13-16, p. 140
Becomes paragraph (b), line 17, p. 140

141. 4.4.2 (a)
142. 4.4.2 (a-f)
143. 4.5 (c)
144. 4.7.2 (a) (2)
145. 4.7.3 1
146. 4.7.3 2
147. 4.8 (a)
148. 4.9
149. 4.9 (c)
150. 4.9 (c)

Restore cross-reference, line 27, p. 140
Restore paragraph headings, lines 25ff, pp. 140-141
Restore cross-reference and wording, line 23, p. 143
Restore former wording, line 28, p. 144
Delete “and,” line 31, p. 144
Restore “however” in place of “In this case,” line 34, p. 144
Restore former words, line 45, p. 144
Add “also may” after “meetings,” line 7, p. 146
Restore “intersynodical,” line 21, p. 146
Restore final sentence of Bylaw 5.69, “They are not…,” line 22, p. 146

151. 5.2.2 (e)

Delete “and shall…Circuit.”—no longer in Handbook, lines 45ff, p. 148
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