# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S131
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General Institutional Matters 129

b) Avoid further losses from those students who were ex-
empted from the tuition charge but fail to enter the service ©
within Synod;

c) Continue the traditional offer of free training to the future
servants of the Church; ‘

d) Counteract the tendency of our students of making con-
tracts for large sums of insurance while still at college,

We beg leave to offer the following memorial:

1) Resolved that hereafter every student preparing for the
ministry or teaching profession at our colleges and seminaries be
required to make an annual deposit in the amount determined by
Synod, payable in instalments and in advance. In worthy cases
these deposits shall be made by the Indigent Students’ Funds.

2) At regular intervals the treasurer of the respective Board
of Control shall remit the deposited money to the Treasurer of
Synod, who shall keep a separate account for each student having
made such payments.

.3) The amounts deposited by students who discontinue their
studies at our institutions and of those students who graduate but
fail to enter the service of the Church in the Missouri Synod within
five years after graduation shall be applied by Synod as tuition
for the education given the individuals concerned.

4) An amount equal to the total deposited by a student who
within five years after graduation enters the service of the Church
within the Missouri Synod shall be transferred to the Pension Fund
and be credited to the account of the respective student under
paragraph II, B (Contribution by the salary-paying organization),
at the time when he enlists and begins his contributions toward
the Pension Fund, and shall be applied to his eventual annuity
benefits subject to the rules and regulations of Synod’s Pension
System.

5) At the end of each scholastic year Synod’s Treasurer shall
send to each ministerial student a statement of his tuition
account with an explanation of its purpose.

Respectfully submitted by
Tue NorTHERN PASTORAL CONFERENCE
OF THE NorTHERN Ixiinors District
A. C. Daums, Chairman
A. T. Kretzmann, Secretary

Report of Committee 1
Committee 1 recommends that action on this overture be
postponed until after the survey.
Action of Synod: This recommendation was adopted.
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