# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1849_S92
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3rd Dist. Fort Wayne: Sihler, Wolter, Husmann, Jäbker, Fritze,
Streckfuß, Nützel, Heid, Stecher, Stürken, Bernreuther, Claus, Detzer,
Schuster.

4th Dist. Michigan: Sievers, Baierlein, Gräbner, Crämer, Hattstädt.

5th Dist. Lancaster: Richmann, Baumgart, Habel, Ernst, Seidel.

6th Dist. New York: Brohm, Wyneken, Hoyer, Schaller.

7th Dist. Altenburg: Löber, Buttermann, Wolf, Biltz, Lehmann,
Strasen.

8th Dist. South Indiana: Saupert, Fricke, Kunz, Schürmann, Sauer.

9th Dist. Buffalo: Bürger, Röbbelen, Trautmann.

Publishing Society.

Already in the first sessions, the Synod was presented with a petition, signed
by Messrs. J. H. Tesch and F. H. Eilers of Milwaukee and
Pastors Keyl and Selle, in which they laid before the Synod a
plan for establishing a print shop for the purpose of publishing church
writings. — Another petition of similar content, sent from
New York by Pastor Brohm to the Präses [president], was
likewise later communicated to the Synod.

After careful examination of the matter and full consideration
of the circumstances and conditions involved — from which it emerged, among
other things, that the publication and printing of the *Lutheraner* could
not, as the plan in the first petition proposed, be tied to such an
undertaking — the Synod resolved to hand the whole matter over to a
Publishing Society to be established within the Synod; and,
to draft a suitable constitution for it, a committee was
appointed. This committee later submitted its draft, which
was then examined, improved, and adopted by the Synod.

Constitution of the Publishing Society of the German Evangelical
Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States.

§ 1. The Society, which hereby constitutes itself under the name
"Publishing Society of the German Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri,
Ohio, and Other States," has as its purpose the widest and cheapest possible
distribution of orthodox Evangelical Lutheran books for instruction
and edification, with particular attention to the writings of the blessed
Dr. M. Luther. — Only those books shall be recognized as orthodox
whose content agrees with Holy Scripture and with all the symbolical
[confessional] books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, namely: the three
ecumenical creeds, the unaltered Augsburg Confession together with its Apology, the
Smalcald Articles, Luther's two catechisms, and the Formula of
Concord.

§ 2. Only the following may become a member of the Society:
a. every minister and schoolteacher standing within the fellowship of
the aforementioned Synod;
b. every voting member of a congregation either belonging to the Synod's
fellowship, or served by a minister of our Synod's
fellowship.

§ 3. One becomes a member of the Society by purchasing at least
one share; — which shares, without losing their value, may in turn