# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1878_S47
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...he shall report such changes in personnel to the Board at its next regular meeting.

3. The superintendent has the right to fix and pay out the wages of the workers employed in the typesetting shop and printing house; he shall draw the money for this weekly through the agent.

4. The presses, machines, type, etc. are entrusted to the superintendent's care; he must keep them in usable condition.

5. The superintendent is not permitted to make sweeping changes in his branch without consulting and obtaining the approval of the Board.

6. The superintendent accordingly has the duty of attending the Board's regular monthly meetings.

7. He must obtain the necessary material, paper, printer's ink, etc., through the agent.

8. He must produce the print jobs handed over to him well, carefully, and by the appointed time (the latter to apply especially to the periodical church magazines).

9. He must see to it that working hours are precisely kept and recorded.

10. He must keep exact books and accounts of all material delivered to him by the agent, so that he can show, for example, how much paper he has received, how much of it has been printed and delivered, and how much he still has on hand.

11. He must have the agent give him a receipt for the print jobs finished and delivered for binding or shipping.

12. He must, with all conscientiousness and fidelity, seek and promote the benefit of the Church within the branches of the synodical printing house entrusted to him.

The synod thus recognized that Mr. Louis Lange of St. Louis, who has already been employed on an interim basis by the Board as a capable specialist for the typesetting shop and printing house, would probably be the most suitable man for the office of superintendent.

Asked under what conditions Mr. L. Lange would be willing to take on the office of superintendent, he declared that he would serve the synod without pay for as long as the "*Abendſchule*" [Evening School] provided him his necessary living; further, that a room be granted to him in the synodical printing house for his own machine and type cases for the purpose of printing the *Abendſchule*, etc. In return he would place his own printing-house building, except for a small part, at the synod's disposal. This would serve as a conveniently located warehouse for finished books of our synodical publishing house. Mr. Lange also wished that his time not be so precisely measured and fixed that he could not stay away from the business for a couple of weeks each year for necessary rest, once he had first arranged and ordered everything so that the business would not suffer as a result.