# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1902_S131
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Tenth Delegate Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 1902. 131

with respect to legacies for which the relevant entries have not yet
been made, promptly, exactly, and in full to the Committee on Legacy
Administration.

2. Resolved, that whoever has to act in the matter of a legacy shall
in future not neglect, for every new legacy, to send to the authority
the necessary information, especially an exact copy of the relevant
words from the testator's will.

3. Resolved, that when a new legacy is received, or the income from
an already-established bequest, the funds shall pass through the hands
of the Committee on Legacy Administration, or that at least the General
Treasurer shall always give the Committee prompt notice of such
receipts and disbursements.

4. Resolved, that the General Treasurer shall be required to report
promptly to the Committee on all general-purpose legacies placed in his
hands, and to account to it annually for the income of the legacies he
administers.

5. Resolved, that the petition of the congregation at Freistatt, Mo.
(Pastor J. E. Roschke), containing the request that the Synod grant it,
from the land of the Raithel endowment lying next to its church, one to
two acres for a burial ground — whether by sale or by lease for 50 or
99 years — be placed in the hands of the Committee on Legacy
Administration with the charge of deciding the matter, though not in
the congregation's favor until the Committee has satisfied itself
whether, under the terms of the will, the Synod has the right to
dispose of the Raithel bequest in the manner the congregation at
Freistatt desires.

The Treasurer informed the Synod that he still held a number of
legacies concerning which the Synod needed to make special
dispositions in keeping with the testators' wishes. According to the
report of a committee appointed for the matter, the legacies in
question fall into three classes: first, those legacies bequeathed to
the Synod without any stipulation whatsoever. These include: a legacy
from G. L. Hahn, Dwight, Ill., in the amount of $200.00; a legacy from
John Pritzlaff, Milwaukee, Wis., in the amount of $3000.00; and a
legacy from Bertha Schäfer in the amount of $1474.93 — total $4674.93.

6. Resolved, that these legacies be placed in the Synod's treasury
as a special fund, for the purpose that the Treasurer may use it to
make loans wherever the need is greatest, the money to flow back into
the fund each time as soon as the need has been met.

Second are the existing legacies bequeathed to the Synod without
special stipulation for the benefit of its various educational
institutions. There are two of these: one — the name being withheld