# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1935_S264
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

252 Proceedings of Thirty-Sixth Regular Convention,

“1) The Secretary of Missions, hereinafter designated as: Sec.
retary, is appointed by the Board of Directors, works under the direc-
tion and control of, and is responsible to, that body, respectively to its
Committee on Missions.

“2) According to the resolution of Synod the Secretary exercises
no executive Powers, as the direction and supervision of missions is
committed to the several boards, to whom the Secretary should submit
any such suggestions ag he may deem advisable.

“3) The Secretary shall report concerning his activities to the
Board of Directors at its sessions, ,

“4) The duties of the Secretary shall, in general, consist in this:

“a) Making a detailed and comprehensive report on our missions,
methods, expenditures, opportunities, developments, ete. ; ‘

“b) Submitting plans to the respective boards and the Board
of Directors for uniforms action and Policies and Proper coordination
of the mission-work carried on within Synod;

“e) Gathering and compiling information and data on all
mission-work, by correspondence, personal Visits, and otherwise;

“d) Consulting also with mission boards of non-subsidized Dis-
triets in order to obtain from them, and transmit to them, helpful
information and thus to meet the requirements of the resolution of

“e) Transmitting to the respective boards of all missions the
results of his studies and serving them with the information he has
gathered pertaining to their Missions;

“f) Attending the meetings of these boards as often as may be
desirable and especially when asked by them to do so ;

“e) Attending bimonthly, if Possible, the sessions of the Board
for Home Missions, or oftener if necessary ;

“th) Transmitting to the chairman of the Committee on Missions
of the Board of Directors, and upon his direction to the several mis-
sion boards, researches, questionnaires, plans, ete., that have any
bearing on their particular work.

“5) Official trips, especially extended ones, shall be made only
after due consultation with, and approval of, the chairman of the
Committee on Missions of the Board of Directors; and the vouchers
for expenditures shall be signed by said chairman and the President
of Synod.”

4. It was found necessary to draw up new regulations for the
Investment Committee, which the Synod is asked to ratify in the
following form: —

“1) Synod’s Investment Committee shall consist of five lay mem-

bers, to be elected by the Board of Directors in the first meeting of
its triennium,