# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1922_S54
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Appendix.

Standing Rules of the Synodical Conference.

I. On the Sending of Delegates to the Synodical Conference.

1. Every synod belonging to the Synodical Conference that numbers 80 or fewer than 80 voting members is entitled to elect 4 representatives. Each 40 voting members above 80 confer the right to elect 2 more representatives, likewise every fraction of 40, but always pastors and deputies in equal number. (Cf. Constitution, § VI, a.)

2. The number of delegates to be sent to the Synodical Conference is to be computed (not according to the number of all those who were present as voting members at the last convention held by a synod or synodical district, but) according to the number of the standing voting members, to which are also to be counted the congregations as such, as they have the right to be represented by deputies at the synodical convention. (Cf. Report XIII, p. 34.)

3. All delegates must submit a written certification of their election (signed by the president and secretary of their synod, or of their district). A copy of each such certificate is to be sent in good time to the president and to the secretary and to the local pastor in whose congregation the Synodical Conference is to meet. (Cf. 28th Rep. of the Syn. Conf.)

4. The credentials are to be sent to the local pastor and referred to a committee announced in the opening service, which then has to report in the first session. (Cf. Report XXIV, p. 64.)

5. Delegates who have not appeared are to be called to account by their respective synods, since the Synodical Conference holds that it has no jurisdiction over them. (Cf. Report III, p. 4.)

6. For the sake of the services to be held, the synods concerned are requested to send in good time a list of the elected delegates to the Pastor loci, in whose church the sessions of the Synodical Conference take place. (Cf. Report III, p. 46; V, p. 5.)

II. On the Admission of Other Synods.

The admission of an ecclesiastical body into the union of the Synodical Conference can take place only by an assenting resolution of all the synods united in the Synodical Conference. (Constitution, § IV.)