# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1914_S66
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66 Proceedings of the 29th General or

was 18; in 1913 we again admitted 9, so that the institution housed 22
pupils. With the start of next year we likewise expect an increase,
since the graduating class is small. These numbers are, admittedly, not
large, but it is equally certain that of the 62 pupils who have
attended our institution so far, we would have gained only a few for
the work in the Lord's vineyard had we not had our own institution,
since the distance to the nearest institution is so great. The
household treasury of our institution was also, during the past three
years, richly provided for by the Christians of our district with
money and provisions, so that we never suffered want or even mere
shortage.

This time we would have one request of the Reverend Synod, namely,
that it raise the salary of Prof. L. Blankenbühler, since he married
last summer and has therefore since had to set up and run his own
household. We already applied to the General Board of Control for this
salary increase last August, but we were eventually advised by the
treasurer to wait with this matter until the Synod's meeting. We had
asked that Prof. Blankenbühler be paid the same salary granted to the
professor at the sister institution in California. Your board would
hereby like to repeat this request and ask that the Synod determine
from what date the salary increase should take effect. We were of the
opinion that the increase should be paid out from August 1913.

Should this salary matter not be brought before the Synod in this way,
we ask that this part of our report be forwarded to the competent
board. We have presented this matter in this way because we were told
by the Reverend President that this matter belongs "in the petition of
your college's board of control to the General Synod."

Resolutions.

Resolved, that Prof. Blankenbühler's salary be raised to $1100,
effective from August 1913.

Resolved, that regarding rent for professors' residences, the board of
control of the institution at Portland be referred to the Synod's 1911
regulation (see report, p. 84).

Institution at Porto Alegre, Brazil.

(For more on this institution, situated within the General Synod's
Brazilian District, the reader is referred to the mission report of the
Commission for Inner Mission Abroad.)

Resolved, to grant the sum of $800 for repairs and improvements.

Resolved, to establish a third professorship, specifically a
theological one, at this institution.