# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1887_S43
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Fifth Delegate Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 1887. 43

things had gone in an extra session which the deputies had held among
themselves alone on this point: according to their report to the Synod,
they could not agree, and so it went in the Synod as well: no agreement
could be reached, even though several sessions were devoted to
discussing this subject. Since, however, this matter had to be brought to
a conclusion, the great majority of the Synod's members finally agreed
on the following

Resolution: that, with regard to our full Gymnasium at Fort Wayne
as well as our Progymnasium at Milwaukee, everything be left as it
presently stands at these two institutions until the next Delegate Synod.
— This resolution, however, shall not apply to the directorship of the
institution at Fort Wayne.

After the Synod had passed this resolution, it made the necessary
arrangements regarding its new institution at Milwaukee. Should this
institution remain in its present state for the next three years, a utility
building would have to be erected there, without which the institution
could not continue to exist as it now stands. The Synod recognized this
and therefore passed the following resolution:

Resolved, that the Synod approve the erection of a utility building to
be built of stone, and grant the sum of $8000.00 for this construction.

Resolved, that $150.00 annually be transferred from the synodical
treasury to the institution at Milwaukee for its library and natural-
history cabinet there.

Resolved, that the Synod take over the salarying of the professors at
the institution at Milwaukee as of June 1 of this year.

Resolved, that an exact "statement" of the institution's funds, or debts,
be sent by the institution's treasurer to the General Treasurer.

Resolved, that the three Districts which have hitherto been the
owners of the institution have it, the institution, legally transferred in
due form to the General Synod.

Institution's Presidency, or Directorship.

Since the Synod recognized that it is often not possible for the
presidents, or directors, to attend to their duties at their educational
institutions to the extent to which they are obligated to do so by the
Synod:

Resolved, that the Synod obligate each individual professor of our
institutions to take on certain functions connected with the presidency,
or directorship; —

And that the Board of Control, with the advice of the Faculty,
determine which of these functions each teacher is to take on.