# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S209
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Constitutional Matters ; 209

le Epiphany or the Reformation season or at some other time
1 gested by the Fiscal Conference;
‘That this sum be divided by the Fiscal Conference among _
our missions at home and abroad” (see Proceedings, 1941,
page 191); - and
, WHEREAS, However, several months later the Fiscal Confer-
ence declined to carry out the above resolution of the General
Convention or to make an attempt to do so; ‘and
Wauereas, The economic conditions that have obtained during
the’ past three years plainly reveal that such a resolution might
have been carried out for the promotion of the cause of missions,
as was the purpose of the above resolution of the last general
convention; and

.WuHeErEas, The aforementioned action of the Fiscal Conference
, tends to militate against the initiative of a General Convention
‘and to nullify any action which such a convention may take with
.reference to financial matters, thus making a General Convention
with regard to these matters quite unnecessary; therefore be it
: Resolved, That the execution of any such specific appropria-
“:tions of the general conventions be held binding upon the Board
‘of Directors and the Fiscal Conference.

THe PAStoRAL CONFERENCE OF Fort WAYNE AND VICINITY

ACTION

. Concerning this overture, Committee 6 reported as follows:
Having considered Memorial 503, dealing with the failure of
the Fiscal Conference to carry out to the letter a resolution of
‘the 1941 convention regarding $150,000 to be appropriated annually
for mission expansion and requesting a clear definition of the
powers of the Fiscal Conference and Board of Directors’ in relation

- to the Synod,

Committee 6 recommends the following for adoption:

_ Resolved, .

1. That the execution of any resolution and appropriations
of the General Convention be held binding upon the Board. of
Directors and the Fiscal Conference unless prevailing conditions
make it impossible, impractical, or unwise to carry them out;

2. That when for such valid reasons the Board of Directors
and the Fiscal Conference do not carry out such resolutions, they
be required to give a satisfactory explanation for their action at —
- the next convention of Synod.

These resolutions were adopted.
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