# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S216
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216 Constitutional Matters

power and mercy and love all things are accomplished, will be
glorified. ,
The Reviewing Committee made the following _Trecommen~
dations: , .
1. That the memorial of the congregations and pastors of Mon-
tana belonging to the North Dakota and Montana District, said
‘memorial petitioning the formation of a new synodical District;
comprising the State of Montana (possibly including those parishes
of this State now affiliated with the English District and the parishes
of Northern Wyoming) be adopted.

' 2. That the delegates representing the North Dakota and Mon-
tana District at the next Delegate Synod choose a committee from
its midst to present the case for division to the Delegate Synod.

3. .That the financial transactions and other business of the
present District Church Extension Board be referred to the District _
Mission Board for study and for definite recommendations at the
next District convention in the event the division should be ratified
by the Delegate Synod.

Action: The memorial and recommendations were adopted.

Tae Norra Dakora anp Montana Disratcr
ArNotp H, Grom, President
Kurt E. Kropp, Secretary

‘ACTION
The following recommendation of Committee 6 was adopted:
After giving extensive hearings and due deliberation to this
request of the North Dakota and Montana District to grant the
formation of a separate Montana District, Committee 6 recom-
-mends that the request be granted and that the proper officials take ©
the necessary steps to carry out this resolution. ,

Changing Line Between N. and S. Nebraska Districts
: (Memorial 508)

: . Whereas, It has been found impracticable that pastors of the
Northern Nebraska District serve stations in the territory of said
District in Wyoming which lies west of the Continental Divide;
therefore be it

Resolved, That the Northern Nebraska District and. the
Southern Nebraska District memorialize the triennial convention
of our Synod, assembled in June, 1944, at Saginaw, Mich., that all
territory of the Northern Nebraska District in Wyoming west of
the Continental Divide be incorporated in the territory of the
Southern Nebraska District, Sournern Nesrasxa Disrarcr

, H. F. Kroun, Secretary