# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S237
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Constitutional Matters 237

Article 7. Officers. — The officers of the Synodical Conference
shall be: a President, one Vice-President from each of the con-
stituent synods, excepting the one from which the President is
elected, and a Secretary, all of whom shall be elected from among
the clergy, and such other officers as the Synodical Conference
may from time to time determine.

The officers shali be elected by ballot at each regular conven-
tion and shall serve until their successors shall have been. elected
or appointed, as may be provided in the by-laws.

A vacancy occurring in any of the above-mentioned offices
may be filled -by a majority of the remaining officers.

Article 8. Board of Trustees.

Section 1.— The Synodical Conference shall at its first regular
meeting (after the adoption of this Constitution), elect a Board of
Trustees of twelve (12) members, in which Board of Trustees each
constituent synod shall be represented and which Board of Trustees
shall by virtue of its. office constitute the Missionary Board for
the direction and management of the missions of the Synodical
Conference. The term of office of said Trustees shall be six (6)
years, and they shall be so classified that the terms of office of
one third of said members shall expire every two years. Vacancies
in said Board of Trustees shall be filled by the Board until the
next meeting of the Synodical Conference.

Section 2.— The Board of Trustees shall at or after every
regular convention of the Synodical Conference elect a chairman,
a vice-chairman, and a secretary for a term of two years and at
this same time also elect a treasurer, who need not be a member
of the Board. The Board may make its own by-laws and may
amend them when deemed necessary. All such by-laws and
amendments to them shall conform to the Constitution and the
resolutions of the Synodical Conference.

Section 3.— Whereas, according to the Statutes of the State
of Wisconsin, in which State the Synodical Conference is in-
corporated, the Board of Trustees, as the representatives of the
Synodical Conference, constitutes the legal body corporate, there-
fore only said Board of Trustees shall have the authority to rep-
resent the Synodical Conference before the law and execute legal
documents.

Section 4.— Whereas the Trustees, by the act of incorporation,
are the representatives of the Synodical Conference before the
law, the title of all properties, both real and personal, of all moneys,
of all legacies and bequests received by the Synodical Conference
or of properties which the Synodical Conference may acquire in