# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1878_S86
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This turnover was distributed over the various years as follows:
In the 5 months August through December 1874 ....................................$ 32781.10
In the year 1875 .................................................................... 82152.13
In the year 1876 .................................................................... 78507.89
In the year 1877 ..................................................................... 87623.48
In the 3 months January, February, and March 1878 .................................. 33021.30

                                                          Total ......$314085.90

Outstanding accounts have grown considerably as a result of the recently much larger
volume of sales. They currently amount to $47472.08. This sum does include some very
old items that, given the circumstances of the times, can only be collected gradually;
however, items whose collection can no longer reasonably be counted on have, as shown
above, been excluded here.

The net profit amounts to $118509.81.

The stock of books, paper, printing presses, machines, plates, and so on, is worth,
by the most conservative estimate, $70000.00 — an increase over the previous accounting
of ..................................................................................$ 13760.15
Paid over to the general Synod treasurer ............................................ 83893.61
Debts on hand, compared with the previous accounting, are less by .................. 850.02
Outstanding accounts, compared with the previous accounting, are more by ........... 19956.87
Cash on hand, compared with the previous accounting, is more by ..................... 49.16

              Yields a net profit of ...............................................$118509.81
The present number of subscribers to "Lutheraner" is ..........................9500
That of "Lehre und Wehre" ......................................................1000
That of "Schulblatt" .............................................................600

Given free of charge to students and seminarians:
"Lutheraner" .................................................................329 copies.
"Lehre und Wehre" ............................................................238   "
"Schulblatt" ..................................................................251   "

The Board of Directors is pleased to report that the new school textbooks have found
their way into almost all schools within the Synod and into many schools of the other
synods belonging to the Synodical Conference. The fourth part of Dr. Dümling's
*Arithmetiſches Exempelbuch* [arithmetic exercise book] would no doubt have been
adopted just as widely if the answer key so indispensable to teachers had been able
to appear.

    St. Louis, April 1, 1878.

    The Board of Directors of the Synodical Printing House:    F. Bohle.
                                                          E. Roschke, Secr.
                                                          H. Steinmeyer, sen.
                                                          H. Kalbfleisch.
                                                          E. F. W. Meier.
                                                          C. W. Behrens.
                                                          C. Uhde.