# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1902_S128
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128 Proceedings of the 25th General, or

"6. This petition shall contain the following information:
"a. Name and location of the congregation;
"b. when the congregation was founded;
"c. how many members the congregation has;
"d. what prospect of growth the congregation has;
"e. what property the congregation owns;
"f. what debts the congregation has;
"g. how much the congregation contributed to its own
    congregational budget in the past year;
"h. how much money the congregation seeks from the fund;
"i. what kind of property it is that the congregation intends to
    acquire with this money;
"j. what guarantee the congregation gives for the borrowed money;
"k. how much of the borrowed money the congregation shall
    repay annually;
"l. Signatures of the trustees of the congregation.

"7. Congregations which have borrowed money from the fund shall
be required to repay 5 percent of it annually, for five years. In the sixth
year the remaining sum shall be repaid in full. If the congregation cannot
pay off this remaining debt in the sixth year, it shall apply for an
extension of the term and then again repay 5 percent annually.

"8. Congregations which have borrowed money from the fund shall
be required to issue for it a note or a mortgage."

5. Resolved, that the administration of the Church-Building Aid Fund
— in accordance with the foregoing provisions — be placed under the
General Relief Commission.

6. Resolved, that the remainder of the money (in the amount of
$1697.78) found in the "Fund for the Sufferers in East India" be invested
for the purpose of later relief for East India in similar visitations to those
for whose alleviation this money was contributed by our Christians.

Administration of Legacies.

"The Commission for the Administration of Legacies is unable to give
the Reverend Synod as complete a report as would be desirable. Of the
three members of this body elected at the last Delegate Synod, two have,
for various reasons, resigned, and these positions had to be filled
provisionally, by appointment of the Reverend General President, until
the Synod's convention. Vacancy and change of personnel may therefore
this time have been partly the cause that the reports on various bequests
to the Synod, which are administered by individual persons