# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S272
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

272 Constitutional Matters’

Concurrence in Suspension

Since the suspension of any member of Synod from member-
ship in Synod — pastor, teacher, professor, or congregation —is a
matter of far-reaching importance, the District President shall not
suspend any member unless the two District Vice-Presidents and
the respective Visitor, after a thorough investigation and after
having granted a hearing to the person or congregation to be sus-
pended, concur in his decision and sign the public notice of sus-

ension.
P Notice of: Suspension

Before the District President publishes the suspension of any
member in the synodical church-papers, he shall first send the
accused direct notice of such contemplated suspension, with the
information that four weeks after such notification ‘the notice of
suspension will be forwarded to the official church-papers for

ublication.
P Hearing of Suspension by District

If the suspension has been published, the case shall be investi-
gated and decided in the following convention of the District, which
shall either confirm the suspension and expel the accused from
Synod or declare that the suspension has been unjustly imposed
and shall be annulled. When the case is tried, the accused shall
be granted the right of a hearing and shall have the privilege of
advice and assistance of any one who is a member of Synod.

Expulsion
Whenever a member of Synod has been expelled from the
synodical organization by a District, the District shall have the
right to publish, through its President, such expulsion in the
synodical church-papers, even though the expelled member appeals
to Synod. Synod shall respect the action of the District and con-
sider said member to have been expelled.

B. Appeals

1. Synod and each District shall elect a Board of Appeals, that
of Synod consisting of four clergymen and three laymen and that
of the District of not fewer than: three clergymen and two laymen.
Their term of office shall be six years. No member shall serve on
this Board successively longer than two terms. No administrative
or executive official of Synod or of any of its Districts shall be a
member of a Board of Appeals.

Election of Board of Appeals
2. Synod’s Nominating Committee shall present a slate of four-

teen names (eight clergymen and six laymen), from which the
seven members of the Board of Appeals shall be elected by ballot,