# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1899_S115
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Ninth Delegate Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 1899. 115

Resolved, that the principal resolutions adopted by this year's
Synod, as edited by Pastor Jul. A. Friedrich on the Synod's behalf, be
printed immediately after the close of the Synod and sent by the
Concordia Publishing House to all the pastors (two copies each) and
teachers of the Synod.

Administration of Bequests.

"Your Commission for the Administration of Bequests takes the
liberty of submitting the following report.

"In accordance with the charge received, a register of the
bequests has been drawn up, and the following have been entered in a
ledger: 1. Schönewaldt's Foundation; 2. Rudloff's Bequest for the
Seminary at St. Louis; 3. Werner's Bequest; 4. Lämmermann's Bequest;
5. Tiemann's Bequest; 6. Holzhauser's Bequest for the Seminary at St.
Louis; 7. Dr. Seyffarth's Bequest; 8. Walther Foundation; 9. Wahler's
Bequest for the Seminary at St. Louis; 10. likewise for the Gymnasium
[college-preparatory school] at Fort Wayne; 11. Holzhauser's Bequest
for the Gymnasium at Fort Wayne; 12. Christiansen's Foundation; 13.
Gerke's Foundation; 14. Krüger's Scholarship; 15. Luther's Foundation;
16. Blek's Bequest; 17. Dr. W. Sihler's Foundation; 18. Groth's
Bequest; 19. Bequest for the Seminary at Springfield No. 1; 20. the
same No. 2; 21. Krieg's Bequest; 22. Sieckmann-Werfelmann's Bequest;
23. Dorothea Tiernau's Bequest; 24. F. Meyer's Bequest; 25. Raithel's
Bequest (200 acres) for poor students and the emigrant mission; 26.
Landre's Foundation; 27. Dirkson's Foundation; 28. Rudloff's Bequest
for the support of sons of deceased pastors and teachers studying
theology; 29. Raithel's Bequest (677 acres) for the Relief Fund; 30.
Hokamp's Bequest; 31. Tiemann's Bequest for the preparatory school
[Progymnasium] at Concordia, Mo.; 32. Hermann Schmudde's Bequest; 33.
Bequest from the savings of a pastor's wife; 34. Steinfat's Bequest;
35. Hamann's Bequest; 36. Caroline Elsholz's Bequest (West Point,
Nebr.); 37. Jacob Roth's Bequest (Defiance, O.); 38. Friederichsen's
Bequest. — The following bequests have also been reported: 1. A
bequest at Blue Point (Pastor D. Gräf); 2. Christoph Tegler, Arlington
Heights, Ill. (Pastor L. Hölter); 3. Heinr. Starke (Pastor
Schinnerer). — A bequest from W. Wendt (Martinville, N.Y.) is
doubtful.

"Regarding the administration we can report the following:

"The following have been handed over to the Commission for the
Administration of Bequests itself, by transfer from the Reverend
General President, for administration: a. since May 14, 1897, a
bequest from the savings of a pastor's wife in the amount of
$1000.00, the yield of which is designated for the support of
traveling preachers. The yield from May 14, 1897, to April 14, 1899,
totals $76.65 and has, per receipt, been delivered to the chairman of
the General Commission for Home Missions;