# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S252
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

252 Constitutional Matters

theran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States be, and hereby is,
authorized and directed to organize a new corporation for the pur-
pose of taking over the property and continuing the business of
Concordia Publishing House as a separate corporation as hereto-
fore conducted; and be it further .

Resolved, That said corporation be organized under the laws of
the State of Missouri, under the religious and educational statutes,
as a non-profit and non-stock corporation; and be it further

Resolved, That the Directors of Concordia Publishing House to
be elected at this convention as nominated by the Western District
pursuant to the regulations in the Handbook, be the Directors of
the new corporation when organized. Be it further

Resolved, That the property, when transferred, be transferred
by the last Board of Directors of Concordia Publishing House, they
being under Missouri law the liquidating trustees and the proper
persons to make said transfer by reason of the expiration of the old
charter, said transfer be made when directed by the Board of Direc-
tors of Synod; and be it further

Resolved, That the application for a new charter heretofore
made by the Board of Directors of Concordia Publishing House be
approved and that the charter for a new corporation be adopted as
finally approved by the Board of Directors of Synod.

Action of Synod: These resolutions were adopted unanimously.

Report of the Handbook Revision Committee
(Memorial 714)

The last convention resolved “that a committee of eleven shall
be appointed which shall prepare a new, complete, and authorita-
tive edition of the Synodical Handbook containing all the synodical
regulations properly arranged, coordinated, and in idiomatic En-
glish, in which all antiquated rulings are eliminated, all ambiguous
and contradictory regulations are adjusted, the duties and respon-
sibilities of all officials and boards and faculties are carefully out-
lined and all overlapping of authority removed.”

The committee appointed in pursuance of this resolution would
like herewith to present its report. Considering first the scope of
our work, we agreed that it would be our task to eliminate ob-
solete regulations, to rephrase ambiguous and vague resolutions,
to make grammatical and rhetorical] corrections, and to recom-
mend changes where these seemed necessary. We realized that
we could not amend the constitution since the constitution itself
provides the method for its amendment, but we believed we should
correct its diction where necessary and eliminate Germanisms.
This is being done, for example, by the elimination of the definite