# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1902_S57
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Tenth Delegate Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 1902. 57

"3. We would like to take the liberty of pointing an Honorable Synod
to a passage in the 'Synodical Handbook' that in our opinion is not quite
comprehensible, with the request that it be explained. It stands in the
'Synodical Handbook' of 1899, p. 67, under number 4, and reads as follows:
'Offenses during instruction hours are punished by the teacher concerned
himself; violations of house rules and discipline by the Präses [president]
(Director) alone. For appeal from the Präses (Director) the Board of
Control is the next instance.' In our opinion it is not clearly expressed
here to whom a pupil is to appeal if he believes himself wronged by one of
the teachers during class hours. Such a case could, however, easily arise,
and the Director ought to be able to base his conduct on a resolution of
the Synod.

"4. The fire damage to our main building has been repaired in
accordance with the Synod's resolution. The exterior restoration cost
$1847.40, the interior finishing $3046.00; total: $4893.40. Of this,
$4579.25 was sent to us directly. (Over $3800.00 was raised within our
own District.) The General Synod had granted us $1500.00, but of this we
needed to draw only $314.29. The building has again been fitted out
appropriately.

"5. With regard to the professors' dwellings that will be needed on
account of the expansion of our institution, we leave it entirely to the
Honorable Synod's discretion whether such should be built or for the
present only rented; we would, however, remark that in the long run the
erection of dwellings of our own would be a saving." (Report of the
Board of Control at St. Paul, Minn.)

After the above report had already been written and sent off, the Board
of Control at St. Paul was offered, for purchase, a 10-acre piece of land
bordering the college property, at the extremely low price of $500.00 per
acre. Since the institution needs just such a piece of land for its
future prosperity, the Board of Control asked the Synod, as an addendum,
for approval of the purchase price. After the Synod, following lengthy
debate on this matter, finally came to the conviction that the Board of
Control's request regarding this piece of land was well justified, it was

1. Resolved, that the Board of Control at St. Paul be hereby authorized
to purchase that 10-acre piece of land for the price of $5000.00, and
indeed without delay, since the offer to be able to acquire the land at
the price named holds good only until June 13 of this year.

2. Resolved, that the said $5000.00 for the purchase of the 10 acres be
borrowed from the Synod treasury for as long as necessary, until the
building funds — in accordance with the two-thirds rule — have come in.

With regard to the proposal of the Minnesota and Dakota District, which
contained the request that the General Synod expand the institution at
St. Paul into