# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1905_S173
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11th Delegate Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 1905. 173

serve for teachers and pupils to study. We have also succeeded in obtaining, free of charge, a not inconsiderable number of pupils' papers from Germany's school exhibit.

"May our school exhibit bear rich fruit for our entire Synod. May the faithful God grant us ever more to recognize what a treasure he has given us in the parochial school, and help us to spare neither effort nor sacrifice for the spread and advancement of our school system as a whole." (Report of the Central Committee for the School Exhibit.)

Resolved, that the foregoing report be adopted with heartfelt thanks to the faithful God who let this work succeed, and to the Central Committee for its labors.

Regulation for the Elections at the General Synod.

§ 1. Already at the first session of the Delegate Synod, the General Praesidium shall appoint the committee, or electoral board, that is to prepare, conduct, and oversee the General Synod's elections.

§ 2. All the District Presidents, together with one delegate appointed by the Synod itself from each District, shall form the committee that proposes to the Synod the names of suitable persons — in double the number, relative to the number of members composing each standing board or commission. These persons thus chosen by the nominating committee, who are to be brought to the Synod's attention and from whom the Synod may strike or add names as it sees fit, shall form the candidates from whom the Synod is to make its choice.

§ 3. Such nomination of candidates shall take place for all standing synodical boards and their officers, with the exception of the [General] President and the Vice-Presidents, for which offices just named the Synod itself elects the candidates without any nomination whatever (a preliminary election).

§ 4. The first candidate-election shall be for the General President, and the second for the General Vice-Presidents; the latter, however, shall take place only once the election of the General President has been decided.

§ 5. Those five persons who receive the greatest number of votes in the first-named preliminary election shall be the candidates for the office of President.