# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1938_S204
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204 Constitutional Matters

made and notice given to the appellants and the appellees at least
six weeks before the convention of the Delegate Synod.

6. Every appellant must, at the time of making an appeal, pro-
vide the appellee with a copy of his appeal.

7. While an appeal is pending, neither the appellant nor the
appellee shall circularize the members of Synod.

8. All former synodical regulations in conflict herewith are
hereby repealed.

Action of Synod: This report was referred to the new com-
mittee on the revision of the Synodical Handbook.

As to the question of simplifying our election system, Com-
mittee 9 had the following report to make:

We have examined our election system together with the
recommendation of the Board of Directors found on page 159 in
the Reports and Memorials and recommend the following:

That on page 73 of the Synodical Handbook, Paragraph 1 re-
main as it is; Paragraph 3 be numbered Paragraph 2 and remain
as it is; Paragraph 2 become Paragraph 3 and remain as it is, with
the following addition: “Nominations for the electoral boards for
the seminaries and normal schools shall be made by Synod through
its Nominating Committee.” Paragraph 4 shall read as follows:
“The members of the boards of electors for the colleges and high
schools shall be elected in the following manner: The District in
whose territory a so-called college or high school is located shall
in the year prior to the meeting of Synod nominate two candidates
for each place on the Board of Electors for such institution. These
nominations shall in the following year be submitted to the Synod
for approval, rejection, or amendment. For this purpose the names
of such candidates as well as the candidates for the Boards of
Control shall be published in the Reports and Memorials printed
before the meeting of the Synod. If no written protest or substi-
tute nomination is presented to the Judge of Election during the
synodical sessions and before the election, the entire list submitted
shall be approved by one single resolution of the Synod.

When the ballot is printed, the candidates residing in the Dis-
trict in which the respective institution is situated shall be sepa-
rated from the candidates residing in adjoining Districts, so that
the Board may have the composition desired by Synod, to wit, that,
if possible, “three members of the Board reside in the same Dis-
trict and two in adjoining Districts.”

Action of Synod: This report was adopted.

With reference to the proposals on simplifying our election
system, submitted by the last Synod to the Committee on Con-