# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S322
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c. The district treasurers send all money for the funds of the
General Synod to the General Treasurer, and the latter forwards it to
the committees concerned.

d. Every year, say for the first February issue of the *Lutheraner*,
all district treasurers send in a clear, summary report (in a single
line) on the five treasuries, stating the number of communicant
members of the district and the amount that would fall to each member
if all had contributed equally. In the same issue appears the report
of the General Treasurer. In the latter, the districts would then have
to be listed not fifteen times or more, as before, but only five
times. —

That the Reverend Delegate Synod may take all this into consideration
is requested, on behalf of the Atlantic District,
Most respectfully,
L. Schulze, *Präses* [president].

Report of the Milwaukee Committee on Incorporation.

To the Reverend General Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States,
assembled at St. Louis, Mo., from May 10 to 20, 1911.

The committee appointed by resolution of the Reverend Synod during its
session from June 21 to July 1, 1905, in Pastor W. Hagen's church in
Detroit, Mich., presented a detailed report on its activity to the
Reverend Synod that assembled at Fort Wayne from May 13 to 23, 1908.

This report was referred back to the committee by a resolution of the
Reverend Synod. The Reverend Synod further appointed an additional
committee from St. Louis, which, in conjunction with the existing
Milwaukee committee, was to investigate the state of the Synod's
incorporation and report on it after three years.

During the past triennium this matter has been discussed with the
St. Louis committee, most recently on February 15, 1909, in St. Louis.
Present were the members of the St. Louis committee and their two
attorneys, three members representing the Milwaukee committee and
their attorney, and, in addition, the General Agent, Mr. E. Seuel.

Unfortunately, we must report to the Reverend Synod that it turned out
that unified further work on this so important matter was not
possible, and that for this reason the task entrusted to us by the
Reverend Synod could not be brought to a satisfactory conclusion.

The positions of the two committees differed in principle, in that the
members diverged widely in their views concerning the principles laid
down by the Reverend General Synod.