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PROCEEDINGS 71
The Committee on Boards, Commissions and Standing Committees thus
chosen shall carefully prepare its report through the year guarding the provisions
of the Constitution and By-Laws and shall nominate to the next Convention
the following:
1. Members of the General boards in accordance with Article V of the
Constitution.
2. The* Trustees, Directors or Boards of the Institutions of the Convention,
in keeping with their charter requirements.
3. All Standing Committees.
4. The members of the Social Service Commission, the Education Commission,
the Radio Commission, the Commission on the American Baptist
Theological Seminary, and the Baptist Historical Society.
In making the selections and nominating the members of the Boards, Commissions
arid Standing Committees of the Convention, the Committee shall be
careful not to appoint one person on more than one of the Boards, or Commissions
or Standing Committees of the Convention.
The report of the Committee may be amended on the floor of the Convention
by a majority vote.
8. Standing Committees: The Standing Committees of the Convention shall
be (1) The Executive Committee, (2) On Baptist Brotherhood, (3) On Order of
Business, (4) On Woman's Missionary Union, and (5) On Public Relations.
9. The Executive Committee:
(1) The Executive Committee shall consist of the President and the Senior
Secretary of the Convention, one member from each cooperating state, one
member from the District of Columbia, and nine members at large. No salaried
official of the Convention or of any of its agencies, or any member of any
board or board of trustees or commission of the Convention may be a member
of the Executive Committee, but these restrictions shall not apply in case of
the President and Senior Secretary of the Convention.
(2) The members shall be divided into three groups as nearly equal as
possible and shall hold office tor three years, one-third going out of office
each year.
(3) A majority of the Committee shall constitute a quorum.
(4) The Executive Committee shall elect an Executive Secretary (who may
also be Treasurer), and other officers and helpers who may be needed. All
the main executive officers and all the office employees who handle funds shall
be bonded, and no salaried officer or employee shall be a member of the Executive
Committee.
(5) The Executive Committee shall be the fiduciary, the fiscal and the
executive agency of the Convention in all its affairs not specifically committed
to some other board or Agency.
The Executive Committee is specifically authorized, instructed and commissioned
to perform the following functions: »
(a) To .act for the Convention ad interim in all matters not otherwise
provided for.
(b) To receive and take title to; to sell and convey and give title to real
and personal property belonging to the Southern Baptist Convention; and to
affix the seal of the Convention to all approved transactions-
Rules governing the handling of securities set out in Article VII, Section 3,
of the Constitution shall be observed by the Executive Committee.
(c) To receive and receipt for all current funds of the Convention including
all undesignated co-operative missionary, educational and benevolent funds and
all current special or designated funds for missionary, educational and benevolent
purposes, which may be contributed by individuals, churches, societies,
corporations, associations or state conventions; and to disburse all undesignated
funds according to the percentages fixed by the Convention and all the designated
funds according to the stipulations pf the donors.
(d) To have oversight of the arrangements for the meetings of the Convention,
with authority to change both the time and place of the meetings, in
accordance with the provisions of Article XI, Section 3, of the Constitution.