# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1929_S135
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Ey. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States. 1929. 185

WHEREAS, They should not lack a proper degree of editorial
gnd mechanical uniformity; and . —_
Wuereas, The present system of publishing (or not publishing)
resulta in @ deplorably, if not dangerously, limited circulation of
“District reports outside the District (we now have but seventy-five
subscribers for the series); and
Wuereas, Under the present plan the cost of a whole series is
prohibitively high (in 1928 an incomplete file of the District reports
cost the individual subscriber $12.06) ; and ;
Wuergas, A few Districts were practically forced to refrain
from publishing their proceedings because the present plan has re-
moved the possibility of numerically strong Districts’ bearing part
of the unequal burden that falls upon the shoulders of the numerically
weaker Districts; therefore be it
Resolved, That each synodical District shall be required promptly
to send its official proceedings to Concordia Publishing House for
publication as one number of an annual series (interrupted, of course,
every third year, when District conventions are not held) and to be
sold under the collective title Synodical Proceedings at a price of $3
per annum; provided that
1. Every District shall be entitled to a number of pages not to
exceed eighty, the District officers being expected to edit accord-
ingly. Each District, however, shall be free to arrange for an issue
of more than eighty pages in the German or English language or
both, provided the District pays the entire cost of such excess for
the whole edition of that particular number.
2. Manuscripts shall be published in the order in which they are
received by Concordia Publishing House.
3. Concordia Publishing House shall submit all manuscripts to
the censorial reading of the theological faculty in St. Louis.
4. Concordia Publishing House shall publish each number of the
Synodical Proceedings within three weeks after the censoring of the
manuscript has been completed (this may not be possible in the
| vacation season, when several manuscripts are likely to accumulate
within a short space of time).

| 5. Concordia Publishing House shall promptly mail one copy
of every number of the Synodical Proceedings to every congregation
in care of its pastor and to such additional addresses as the District
may supply (for instance, District officers, teachers, emeriti, etc.) ;
and each District shall pay Synod in quarterly instalments at the rate
of $3 per annum for every subscription in force. Back numbers of
the current year are to be mailed to such congregations (or pastor or
teacher member if the District so orders) as are admitted to member-
ship during that particular year. The Treasurer of Synod, in turn,
shall periodically pay Concordia Publishing House for such service
on the basis of $3 per annum per recipient of such service.