# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S177
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13th Delegate Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 1911. 177

...examined by a committee appointed by the commission for that purpose, and found to be in order. We recommend: that the Synod elect two auditors living in the commission's place of residence, who shall be required to audit the treasurer's books once a year."

These recommendations were approved by the Synod, with the addition, however, to the sixth, that the auditors who audit the General Treasurer's books shall also examine this fund. (The commission and the treasurer have the same place of residence.)

The regulation for the administration of the General Church-Building Fund accordingly now reads, in its new form, as follows:

Resolved, that a General Church-Building Aid Fund be established, from which advances can and shall be extended, up to half the cost of the building, to such incorporated congregations of our Synod as are not able to undertake a necessary church building from their own means.

Resolved, that the following detailed provisions shall apply with respect to this Church-Building Aid Fund to be established:

1. To administer this fund, a commission of three shall be elected, if possible for longer than three years. The members of this commission shall also live in one place.

2. The money of this fund shall be administered by the General Treasurer; the same, however, shall be required to report to the commission's treasurer once a month on the state of the fund.

3. This fund receives its money through collections, gifts, bequests, and interest-free loans.

4. From this fund, interest-free loans are given to those poor congregations for which their own district cannot provide.

5. If a congregation requests help, it is sent a petition form, which it must fill out and have reviewed by the district president.

6. This petition shall contain the following information:

a. Name and location of the congregation;
b. when the congregation was founded;
c. whether it is incorporated;
d. how many members it has;
e. what prospect it has for growth;
f. what property it owns;
g. what debts it has;
h. how much it contributed to its congregational budget in the
   past year;
i. how much money it requests from the fund;
j. what the cost of the proposed new building amounts to;

[Signature at the foot of the page: "12" — a printer's sheet signature, not a folio.]