# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1848_S47
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3. Whether the seminary's finances are conscientiously administered.

The chairman of the institution's board of directors is at the same time its
treasurer, who must render an annual account to the board of oversight.

§ 6. The board of oversight, together with the seminary teachers, shall
draw up an annual course plan, in which the subjects are to be distributed
so that, following that plan, the seminarians have occasion, through the
benefit of a two-year course of instruction, to reach the standard set for
candidates for the preaching office in Chapter V, § 10.b of the Synod's
constitution.

§ 7. The direction of the seminary rests with the whole teaching staff, one
of whose members is given by the synod the chairmanship and the
deciding vote.

§ 8. Only godly young men are admitted to the institution as students —
those who not only have the natural gifts required for the preaching
calling, but are also equipped with the most necessary elementary
knowledge, and in whom a good foundation has been laid in saving
knowledge [of the faith].

§ 9. The institution's students receive instruction free of charge, since the
teachers are salaried by the synod.

§ 10. The election of seminary teachers takes place as follows: the synod
appoints an electoral college, consisting of the board of oversight and five
persons of our body chosen by the synod. This college puts forward three
candidates for the vacant teaching post, from among whom the teacher is
chosen by the members of the electoral college, a majority of votes
deciding. However, every congregation has the right to petition the
electoral college that a certain person be included as a candidate for the
vacant post. Every congregation also has the right to protest the
installation of the person elected by the electoral college. If the electoral
college does not uphold the protest, the protesting congregation may call
it to account before the synod.

§ 11. The board of oversight is responsible to the synod for all its actions
as such, and shall report to it annually on the state of the seminary in
every respect; it shall also have the seminary inspected by one or more of
its own members at least once every three years.

§ 12. If the board of oversight finds that a teacher, whether through
heresy, offensive conduct, or willful neglect of his official duties, is
bringing the institution to ruin, the board has the power to suspend such a
teacher from his office at once, until the decision of the whole synod on
the case can be obtained. For the period of the suspension, the board of
oversight shall, if necessary, appoint a substitute [Vicarius].

The College [Collegium] at Altenburg.

An extract from the minutes of a congregational meeting of the Ev.-Luth.
congregation at Altenburg was communicated to the synod, in which this
congregation on the one hand expresses its willingness to hand over the
college there to the synod's direction, and on the other hand states its
wish, supported by several important reasons, that the synod leave this
institution at Altenburg.

Since, however, the congregation at St. Louis had expressed the wish that
the college be moved to St. Louis, and the synod...