# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1935_S215
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202 Proceedings of Thirty-Sixth Regular Convention,

Dividing the Iowa District.
(Memorial 405.)
“The Iowa District asks Synod to divide the Iowa District into
an East Iowa and a West Iowa District for the following reasons: —

“4, The business to be transacted hag become so extensive and
is growing with each year to such an extent that deliberate considera-
tion of vital matters on the floor of the convention is becoming in-
creasingly difficult The larger the convention, the more cumbersome
and unwieldy the meetings.”

The above petition was adopted by the Iowa District in con-
vention assembled at Keystone, Iowa, August 20—24, 1934,

H. Harms, President. A. H. SEMMaNN, Secretary.

Action of Synod.
Upon recommendation of Committee 15 it was resolved that the
betition of the Iowa District to divide itself into an Eastern Iowa
and a Western Iowa District be granted.

Petition to Form a Southeastern District.
(Memorial 406.)

submitting to you our petition to the English District, of which we
at present are members, for its approval, together with the record of
said District granting our request. The following ig reprinted from
the Proceedings of the Fourteenth Convention of the English, District,
held at River Forest, Ill, June 90 to June 23, 1933, pages 74 and 75:

“Petition to Form a New District of Synod.
“In Presenting the following petition, the Southeastern District

Conference begs leave to call attention to the fact that the idea under-
lying this effort is one that has engaged the attention of those en-
trusted with the missionary Opportunities of the Southeast now for
over forty years, namely, the idea of a stronger and more adequate

financial Support of the work. I¢ was this idea that resulted in the