# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1935_S223
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

210 Proceedings of Thirty-Sixth Regular Convention,

Amendment to Charter of Synod, Article IT,
Committee 15 recommended ratification of the action of the
Board of Directors in amending the charter of Synod by adding at
the end of Article II the words “and that the Association may engage
in all phases of radio broadcasting.” (Of. Memorial 601, D, 7.)
Action of Synod.
This recommendation was adopted.

New Edition of the ‘ ‘Synodical Handbook.”

(Memorial 601, D,7 and an unprinted memorial. }
Concerning this matter Committee 15 reported: —
1. Your Committee concurs with the recommendation of the
Board of Directors and recommends to Synod that the President of

Synod be authorized to appoint a committee to prepare a new edition
of the Handbook, to be published in the near future.

2. We recommend the adoption of the suggestion made in the
unprinted Overture 20, No. 5:—

a) That the new Synodical Handbook be printed in English
only;

b) That this English version be the authorized version of the
Handbook ;

c) That the President, in a manner suitable to him, ask the
Synodical Conference also to declare this English version of the
Constitution to be the legal version.

Action of Synod.
This report was adopted,

Changes Made by Synod Not Recorded in the “Handbook.”
(Unprinted Memorial 20, 1. 2.)
Action of Synod.

Upon recommendation of Committee 15 these reports were

referred to the committee to be appointed for the revision of the
Handbook.

Changes in the Representation at Synod.

(An unprinted overture by Mr. E. Kuechle proposed a number of changes
in the by-laws of Article IX of the Constitution. )

Committee 15 reported: —

Your Committee recommends that this overture be declined,

1. Because in the opinion of your Committee there seems to be
no reason at this time for the suggested change;