# LCMS Commission on Constitutional Matters Minutes_St. Louis Missouri_OCTOBER 3 1963_S10
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

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8 The Secretary read the list of those unfinished items from the Report
of the Survey Commission which the Synod had made the responsibility of this
Joint Committee. It was noted that the office of the Executive Secretary had
not only made available this list in mimeographed form, but that the text of
the Report of the Synodical Survey Commission relating to these unfinished

Items had also been made available in mimeographed form.

9. The Committee took up for consideration the recommendations referring
to Synodical Conventions, Items 3, 4, 6, 7, page 235 of the 1962 Proceedings,

and Item 3 on page 236 of the 1962 Synodical Proceedings,

10. Item 3 on page 235 of the 1962 Proceedings suggested "providing for
orientation sessions early in the Convention for all delegates,'"' After consider-
ing the apparent advantages and possible disadvantages of such a meeting, also
in the light of experience gained at the Cleveland Convention, the motion was
made, properly seconded and carried

"to recommend that on the evening before the opening day
of the Synodical Convention a meeting be scheduled for the
instruction and guidance of delegates and that in preparation
for this meeting a Convention Manual or a Convention Guide
be furnished, "'
ll, Item 4 was a recommendation to the effect that a Synodical Convention

Commission, rather than the President of the Synod, be empowered to appoint

Floor Committees and to make assignments of Reports and Memorials.

12. This recommendation led to a lengthy discussion during which the
duties of the proposed Synodical Convention Commission were detailed and the
advantages and disadvantages of having such a Commission were carefully
evaluated, It was recalled that the Synodical Handbook makes the President
of Synod responsible for appointing Floor Committees, but that the President

has traditionally asked the Vice-President, the Secretary and others to assist