# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1899_S111
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Ninth Delegate Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 1899. 111

Report of the General Agent
from April 1, 1896, to April 1, 1899.

Capital account on April 1, 1896: $345114.34.
Income:
For books and imported goods ........................... $436407.40
For periodicals ........................................... 164278.26
For rent from April 1, 1896, to May 1, 1898 .................. 2883.19
For interest ................................................... 46.55
Received on Profit and Loss Account ............................ 85.70
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                Total ........................................ $603701.10
Add: stock of publishing and imported goods, presses,
    type, plates, and machines, per inventory of
    April 1, 1899 ..............................................              246592.31
                Total ..........................................             $850293.41

Expenditure:
Stock of publishing and imported goods, presses, type,
    plates, and machines, per inventory of April 1,
    1896 ...........................................................$237999.38
For purchase of:
    Books and imported goods, etc. ..................... $119266.36
    Paper ................................................. 58744.07
    Type and electrotype plates .......................... 7298.00
    Leather for the bindery .............................. 13003.03
    Other bindery material ............................... 10492.97
    New presses and machines, etc. ........................ 8192.55
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                                                             216996.98
For wages ....................................................... 140501.55
For operating costs, fuel, taxes, and repairs ................... 17113.10
For taxes and repairs on houses from the Barthel
    Estate, from April 1, 1896, to May 1, 1898 .............. 1782.95
Balance of the rent account delivered to Treasurer
    E. F. W. Meier ................................................ 287.34
Discounts on cash payments .................................... 2485.72
Free deliveries to orphanages, charitable
    institutions, colleges, etc., per synodical resolution ... 1753.34
Losses on old outstanding accounts .............................. 3277.60
Losses on outstanding accounts during the last three years ..... 1032.28
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                                                                  623230.24

Net profit ......................................................... $227063.17
Loss, Schwartz Bros. Commission Co. shares .................. $11000.00
Delivered to the General Treasurer .......................... 179525.26
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                                                               190525.26

Remaining balance ................................................... $36537.91
Add capital account on April 1, 1896 ................................ 345114.34
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Present balance of the capital account ............................. $381652.25