# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1920_S35
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Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States. 1920.

F. Of the Board of Directors.

3 rd of Directors shall consist of not less than seven
is it: the President, the Secretary, the Treasurer, one
Stroe laymen. ‘

Pp eye Directors is the legal representative of the
%§ “custodian of all property of the Synod, and shall be
by the general management and supervision of all of the
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Rie XII. — Districts of Synod. Regulations.

od shall be divided into Districts. Their geographical
Ball be determined by the Synod, which may alter them

Sonstitution shall also be the constitution of each Dis:
pod; however, each District may adopt such by-laws

eh resolutions as its own particular interests require,

Bt such by-laws and resolutions ‘do not conflict with the

‘gnd the By-laws of the Synod.

ficers of the Districts shall be: —

District President; .

istrict Vice-Presidents, as the By-laws prescribe;

‘As many Visitors as the various Districts may determine

. upon;

ra District Secretary ;

‘A District Treasurer.

onal officers, boards, and commissions may be elected
Districts, as the particular business of. the Districts

ection of the District officers ‘shall always take place
er the regular session of the Synod.
ficers of the Districts shall have the same rights and
pee outlined in this Constitution for the officers of the
phowever, in so far as these apply to the District and
ithin its boundaries. . ’
istrict Presidents shall, moreover, especially exercise
ision over the doctrine, life, and administration of office
pand teachers of their District.. They shall also acquaint
ith the prevailing religious conditions of the congrega-
‘District, and shall, to this end, have the right and
tions, being assisted in this work by the visitors, who
make their reports to them.
strict Presidents are empowered, in accordance with
f the Synod, to suspend from membership, until the
neeting of the Synod, pastors, ba they voting or merely
bers of the Synod, as also professors and teachers, who
mihere to false doctrine, or who have given public offense
My life. The District Presidents may also publish such

er, the District Presidents shall
[See to it that all resolutions of the Synod which con-
y cern their District shall be made known to the mem-
bers of the District, and are carried out b them ;
ubmit an annual report of their administration to the
President of the Synod, and at all times give him
any required information as to their administration
as District Presidents ;
Person or by proxy ordain and induct into office all
ministerial candidates, and install all candidates for
the parochial schools assigned to their Districts, and
install pastors and teachers who have accepted a call
to congregations in their District;

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