# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1850_S131
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§ 8. Only those equipped with the necessary elementary knowledge may
be admitted into the gymnasium, and only those who have passed the
graduation examination [Abiturienten-Examen], whose requirements the
board of oversight determines together with the teaching staff, may be
admitted into the seminary.

§ 9. The Direction is charged with maintaining a Christian discipline,
to which everyone who wishes to be admitted to the institution, and to
remain in it, must submit.

§ 10. Should the expulsion of a student from the institution become
necessary, this lies with the Direction, with the consent of the oversight
board.

§ 11. Only those students who reside in the institution for the purpose
of studying Lutheran theology receive instruction free of charge and have
free lodging; the others must pay a fee, to be determined by the Direction
together with the board of oversight.

§ 12. The election of teachers takes place as follows: The Synod
appoints an electoral college, consisting of the board of oversight and five
persons of our fellowship to be 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, the teaching staff and every congregation has
the right to move that a particular person also be put forward as a
candidate for the vacant post. They also have the right to protest against
the installation of the person elected by the electoral college. If the
electoral college does not sustain the protest, it may be called to account
for this by the protesters before the Synod.

§ 13. The board of oversight is responsible as such to the Synod for all
its actions, and shall render to it an annual report on the state of the
seminary in every respect; it shall also personally inspect the seminary at
least once every three years, through one or more of its own members.

§ 14. If the board of oversight finds that a teacher, whether through
heresy, or offensive conduct, or willful neglect of the duties of his office, is
proving ruinous to the institution, it has the power to suspend such a
teacher from his office at once, until the decision of the whole Synod can
be obtained in the case at hand.

§ 15. For the period of a suspension, and in the event of a death, the
board of oversight is to appoint a vicar [Vicarius].

Both these statutes and that deed of transfer are to be entered in the
Recorder's Book.

The teaching staff of the College presently consists of Professors
Walther and Biewend and Gymnasium Rector Gönner, who have been
duly elected.

As regards the expenses for the teaching staff for 1850, $641.95 has
been received toward meeting them from the St. Louis congregation,
college, cemetery, hymnal, and synodical funds, etc., with a further
$66.00 still expected, which covers the total expenditure for this year,
amounting to $707.95.

For the coming year (1851), however, an expenditure of $1084.00 will
be required, which, according to the proposal made by the Synod's
treasurer and adopted by it, would have to be raised in the following way: