# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1926_S195
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Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States. 1926. 146

the President, the Secretary, and the Treasurer of the District, all and
each of them ez officio; the President, the Vice-President, and the
Treasurer of the District Church Extension Board, all and each of
them ez officio; and three lay members of the District chosen at large.
The members of this Board of Trustees, the majority of which shall
always be lay members of the District, shall hold office for three years
and shall be elected at the sessions of the District designated by the
Synod for that purpose. ‘See Synodical Handbook, Article XII. All
the acts of this Board of Trustees shall be subject always to the direc-
tion, revision, or approval of the District in session assembled.

Boarps anp Committers. :

For the purpose of conducting certain designated work of the
District, the District may, in accordance with the purposes of the
Synod and in accord with the Constitution of the Synod, establish and
maintain boards and committees. The members of such boards and
committees shall hold office for three years and shall be elected at
the sessions of the District designated by the Synod for that purpose.
See Synodical Handbook, Article XII:

Incorporation.

The Eastern District is incorporated in the State of New York,
May 21, 1903, and in the State of Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Pa.,
January 22, 1993. The District may cause the incorporation of its
boards and committees. ,

_ By-Laws.

The by-laws of the Synod, its resolutions, rules, and regulations,
as well as the resolutions of this District, all and each of them as they
may be passed from time to time, shall be the by-laws of this District
respecting and governing the District itself, and all its boards and
committees, in all matters to which such resolutions, rules, and regu-
lations may haye reference. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of
the District to compile and maintain a classified record of the resolu-
tions of the District, together with a similar record of the resolutions
of the Synod pertaining to the District boards and committees. This
classified record of resolutions shall be published in handy form from
time to time, as necessity may suggest, for the use of the District’s
officers, its boards and committees.

In submitting the foregoing “tentative draft” of a Constitution
of the District, your Committee is conscious of the argument con-
cerning corporations within corporations. The duty of your Com-
mittee, however, was neither organization nor reorganization, but the
reduction into writing of the basis of the existing organization.

A strict, legal interpretation of the foregoing Constitution may more
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