# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1917_S52
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52 Proceedings of 30th General Convention,

5. The names on all ballots shall be in alphabetical order.
6. This code of regula

tions shall become effective with this Con«
vention.

Nove. — The re

sults of the 1917 elections are
list of officers and b

all tabulated under the <3
oards at the end of this report. ;

PARTITION OF THE NEBRA
The petition of the Ne
partition of said District if

SKA DISTRICT.

braska District was granted, authorizing E
found necessary, ;

, CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES. ‘
Resolved, That all resolutions of Synod affecting the Constitu-
tion and By-laws be submitted for ratification to the congregations '
by means of the official organs of Synod. ;

REDUCING NUMBER OF DELEGATES.

On the past scale of representation in the Delegate Conven-

tion, Synod has become too large a body, both for effective dispatch
of business and even more so with respect

to the quartering of dele-
gates. After considering various Propositions, Synod

1 determine how many shall
d, however, that no Circuit comprise lesg

3 each circuit, as here-

respectively, shall form

8. That, after a Syn
above-described circuits, t
garded as a circuit, and

ENTERTAINING THE DELEGATEs,

The proposition that

traveling, but also the mai ir delegates while

at Synod, in order to relieve the congregations in the convention city
of the cost of entertaining dele

gates, was endorsed by the committee,
but rejected by the convention,