# LCMS Commission on Constitutional Matters Minutes_St. Louis Missouri_OCTOBER 3 1963_S2
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However, it was finally agreed ‘'to concur in Dr. Harm's action of appointing
Chairman Kuenne and Secretary Birkner as the Committee's representatives

to this Joint Committee".

126. The Secretary read a communication received from Dr. Theodore
Nickel, Chairman of the Commission on Theology and Church Relations, under
date of July 9, 1963. Dr. Nickel reported that his Commission had turned over
to a special subcommittee our request for further study of the issue of Woman's
Suffrage in the Church; Dr. Victor Bartling, professor at Concordia Seminary

in St. Louis, had been requested ''to write a thorough treatment of the matter

in question, "'

127, The Secretary next read a letter addressed by him under date of
July 25, 1963, to the Rev. Lawrence Gallman, Editor of the Minnesota
Lutheran, in which the opinion was offered that some latitude should be
given the Districts in interpreting Paragraph 1, 33 of the Synodical Handbook:

"Brief daily minutes shall be read at synodical conventions".

128. The Committee expressed its agreement with this opinion.

129. The Secretary now read a letter addressed by him under date
of August 27, 1963, tothe Rev. Carl Heckmann, President of the Texas Dis-
trict, in which he offered the opinion, in response to a question, that there is
no Synodical regulation that ''determines what happens to the property of a
congregation that has dissolved"'. To this opinion was added a supplementary

statement issued under date of August 29, 1963, by Chairman Kuenne.

130. The Board expressed its agreement with these communications.