# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S238
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

238 Constitutional Matters

the future shall be vested in the legal corporation, the aforesaid
Board of Trustees. The Trustees shall employ, administer, and
convey all moneys and all properties of the Synodical Conference
according to the directions of the Synodical Conference and within
the confines and limits which the Synodical Conference may from
time to time set. (Wisconsin Statutes, Section 187.05.)

Section 5.—The chairman and the secretary of the Board of
Trustees are hereby designated as the persons who shall sign all
legal documents for the Synodical Conference.

Article 9. Amendments. Any proposed amendment to the
Constitution shall be presented in writing to the President of the
Synodical Conference at least four weeks prior to the convention
and, if adopted by a two-thirds majority of the delegates present
and voting at a convention, shall become effective, if no objection
is raised by any of the constituent synods at their next-following
convention.

Article 10.— The Synodical Conference reserves .the right to
adopt such by-laws as do not conflict with the constitutions of the
constituent synods nor involve such matters as properly belong
within the jurisdiction of the constituent synods. For the adoption
or alteration of a by-law an affirmative vote of two thirds of the
delegates present and voting at a convention shall be required.

Article 1. Conventions. By-Laws

Section 1.—A convention of the Synodical Conference shall
be held at least once in every two years at such a time and place
as may be determined by the preceding convention or by the
President. The duration of the convention shall not exceed six days.

Section 2. Mode of Representation. — Every constituent synod
shall be entitled to at least four representatives at the conventions.
For every eight thousand communicant members or fraction in
excess of the first eight thousand communicant members in any
one constituent synod two additional representatives may be
elected. Duly ordained pastors and lay representatives shall be
elected as delegates in equal number, as far as possible.

Section 3.— A special convention may be called by the Presi-
dent with the consent of a majority of the Vice-Presidents, or shall
be called at the request of a majority of the Vice-Presidents.

Section 4.— Arrangements for the convention shall be made
by the President in consultation with the pastor in whose parish
the convention is to be held.

Section 5. — Notice of the convention shall be sent by the Sec-
retary of the Synodical Conference to the Presidents: of the con-
stituent synods, with the request that the notice of such convention