# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1920_S36
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Proceedings of Thirty-First National Conve #

d. Sign all examination papers and i k
. . certifi
tion, also all official cates
District. Papers and docur

10. The District synodical meetings are composed

A. Representatives Entitled to Vote

The pastors of such congregations as hold .
i ti
in Synod, and the lay delegates elected by th voting
be entitled to vote. y these congreg

; B. Advisory Members.
Advisory members are: —
1. Pastors whose, congregations d
ship in Synod; 8 © not hold Voting
. Assistant pastors;
. Ministers of the Gospel without a charge;
. Professors at the Synod’s educational instit
. eee of parochial schools ;
. Candidates for the office of the mini
of a teacher in a parochial school or for

11, The Districts, if legally incorporated, sh ',
Directors, composed of the President, the Secretary: weit
urer of the District, which shall legally represent the Dist
courts of the State. At the discretion of the District, ot}
those mentioned may be elected to serve on the Board of D

12, The Districts shall have the privilege of regu
own internal affairs, it being understood, however, that its
tions shall serve the best interests of the Synod.

13. The regular sessions of the Districts shall be held
years when the Synod does not regularly convene. Only:
may make an exception to this rule.

14. A District Synod shall be duly qualified to tran
ness, if the meeting has been constitutionally convened and:
one-third of its voting membership is represented by one
gates (a pastor or a lay member). .

15. In case of urgent necessity the District President
empowered to convene a special session of his District,’
however,. that he previously, after having informed the:
of the Synod and the voting membership of his District ‘of
pose of such special session, have the consent of at least
of the latter.

Atticle XIII. — Expulsion from the Synod?»

1. Members who act contrary to the doctrinal basis
and the conditions of membership in Art. VI, or who, dist
all admonitions, persist in leading an ungodly life, shall be;

2. The District Synods, as a rule, expel such memb
theless, any member expelled by a, District shall be perm
peal to the Synod. .

3. If an expelled pastor or teacher holds office in &
which is a member of the Synod, then such congrega
not already done so, shall be held to depose him from
deal with him in accordance with the Word of God, no
any appeal he may have made. If a congregation pe
fuses to do so, the District shall take such congre
and if all negotiations and admonitions fail of their
congregation shall forfeit its right of membership in

' “4, All those who are expelled from Synod do thereby,
of course, lose all rights of membership and any pre
vested in the Synod. The latter aleo holds good in the:
member who, for any reason, severs his connection WH

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