# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1887_S45
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Fifth Delegate Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 1887. 45

"Since the Synod has now reserved to itself the oversight of the
examination of candidates for the teaching office, and since it has
assigned the holding of the colloquium to the Board of Examiners, there
is no reason why it should not also assign the examination to it.

"Since, further, the Synod has over time distributed the functions of
the single Board of Examiners, and has assigned the examination of the
pupils of the Teachers' Seminary to that Seminary's own Board of
Examiners, it most fittingly also assigns the colloquium, or the
examination, of candidates for the teaching office coming from outside
to this Board of Examiners. If one wished to follow the wording of the
paragraph named exactly, the professors of the Teachers' Seminary
would not be permitted to examine even their own seminary students
either, but this would have to be done by the pastors of the
congregations that call a seminary graduate.

"Since, finally, the provision named, Chap. V, A, § 13, dates from a time
when the Synod as yet had no Teachers' Seminary, and is outdated, it
should, if not struck out (as has already been done with other
paragraphs), at least be amended or explained or supplemented."

Resolved, that the Synod hereby also assigns the colloquium, or the
examination, of candidates for the teaching office coming from outside
to the Board of Examiners of the Teachers' Seminary, so that this Board
of Examiners is henceforth also the properly competent examining
authority for candidates for the teaching office not trained among us.
It shall, however, have the right, where it cannot well be done
otherwise, to charge one or more ministers of the Word with holding the
colloquium, or the examination.

Directorate, Agency, and Treasury.

"The Directorate of the Synodical Printing House and the Publishing
House, appointed by the Reverend Synod in 1884, hereby takes the
liberty of submitting the following report to a Reverend Synod:

"1. A regular meeting has been held by the Directorate every month, to
dispose of the business at hand and to carry out, to the best of its
ability, the duties assigned to it by the Synod. When urgent matters
arose that had to be dealt with before the next regular meeting, a
special session was held. The duration of each session covered a period
of two to three hours.

"2. Already at the first session, an audit committee, consisting of two
members of the Directorate, was appointed to review the account books
of the General Agent, of the printing house, and of the publishing
house. This committee has regularly reviewed the account books
concerned and reported on them. At every regular session the balance
sheet has been presented to the Directorate and examined by it.