# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1860_S71
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The following resolutions were then adopted on this matter:

a. that responsibility for supporting traveling preachers be placed
in the hands of Dr. Sihler;

b. that all who need support are to apply to Dr. Sihler;

c. that the district synods be prompted to establish special funds
for this purpose, and that the district treasurers send the
contributions received for it to the treasurer of the Central
District, Mr. Wilh. Meyer of Fort Wayne;

d. that, with respect to more distant territories (e.g. Kansas,
Nebraska, and others), the General Präses be charged with taking
whatever steps are necessary to carry on home mission work there,
should the opportunity arise;

e. that Pastor Rupprecht be given at once the sum of $150 toward the
purchase of a horse and other needs, this sum to be borrowed from
the mission treasury and repaid again out of the funds received for
home missions.

Appointment of a General Agent for the Distribution of the
Synod's Printed Matter.

This subject too had been referred to a committee for preliminary
deliberation and report; its report, as adopted by the Synod with
some changes, follows here.

§ 1.

The reasons that should move the Venerable Synod to make the change
in agency business set out below are:

1. the present distribution of the business among various hands
brings with it the drawbacks that the costs of the agencies
become higher than seems necessary;

— that oversight becomes difficult and, in certain respects,
impracticable;

that the conduct of business is cumbersome, inconvenient for
customers, and makes it harder to open up advantageous channels of
sale;

2. in the committee's view, these drawbacks can be removed by
uniting the business in a single hand.

The committee therefore takes the liberty of making the following
proposal to the Venerable Synod:

§ 2.

The Synod shall appoint a general agent for its entire
publishing operation and all printed matter distributed in its
interest.

§ 3.

He shall not be permitted to carry on a business of his own for
profit alongside his office.