# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1959_S149
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 149

tion to take under serious consideration the development plans
and the budgetary provisions necessary to implement this
expansion.

Action: This resolution was adopted.

Title to Property at Concordia Seminary,
St. Louis, Mo.

RESOLUTION 45, COMMITTEE 1
Memorial 101, page 13, par. 5, Reporis and Memorials

Wuereas, The Synodical Handbook, par. 2.79h, stipulates that
“property shall be taken in the name of Synod under its corporate
title except in cases where the property to be acquired is to be
purchased for the use and benefit of a seminary or college which
has been separately incorporated under the synodical resolution
of 1935 and to which corporation the present real-estate holdings
have been conveyed with the necessary reversionary clause”; and

Wuereas, Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, is one of the col-
leges and seminaries incorporated under the laws of the particular
state where it is located (Proceedings, 1935, page 191); and

Wuereas, At the present time all Concordia Seminary property
is vested under the corporate title of The Lutheran Church —
Missouri Synod; and

Wuereas, From time to time the Board of Control of Con-
cordia Seminary, St. Louis, must engage in transactions which
involve its property, buildings, utilities, or other improvements
and where questions arise concerning taxes, contracts, and ease-
ments; and

Wuereas, The fact that the Synod holds title to all the subject
property causes considerable confusion and delays prompt
action; and

Wuereas, In order to have a uniform practice among the Syn-
od’s respective institutions so concerned in the matter of title to
properties and to simplify future transactions involving property;
therefore be it

Resolved, That all properties presently owned or acquired in
the future for use by Concordia Seminary be conveyed to Con-
cordia College of St. Louis, Mo. (the corporate name of Concordia
Seminary) with reversionary clause to The Lutheran Church —
Missouri Synod.

Action: This resolution was adopted.