# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1902_S132
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132 Proceedings of the 25th General, or

— that is, from N. N. — in the amount of $666.00, and a legacy from
G. Wiedemann in the amount of $2057.55 — total $2723.55.

7. Resolved, that the General Treasurer be directed to apply this
money whenever he has to make payments to the institutions named in
the wills.

Third, there is a legacy with a specific stipulation from H. Starke in
the amount of $2000.00, of which sum $1000.00 is to be used for poor
students generally and $1000.00 specifically for the college at
Milwaukee.

8. Resolved, that with regard to the first-named $1000.00, the
Committee on Legacy Administration shall take charge of this bequest
and administer it according to the will; and that with regard to the
second sum, likewise $1000.00, this bequest shall be paid out to the
board overseeing the college at Milwaukee, which shall dispose of it
at its best discretion and render an exact accounting to the Committee
on Legacy Administration.

The committee further reported: "Regarding the legacy of H. Starke, we
have before us a copy of the will, and regarding the legacy of
J. Pritzlaff we arrived by another route at full certainty that the
resolutions the Synod has adopted in this connection fully correspond
to the last will of the testators."

9. Resolved, that the resolutions the Synod has adopted regarding all
other legacies shall be carried out only once the Committee on
Legacies elected by the Synod has determined that the terms of the
wills are not thereby violated.

The Synod was further informed that Mr. H. Starke had also bequeathed
to it — the Synod — a valuable piece of property (real estate) on
which, at the testator's death, a debt of $6000.00 still rested. After
his death his family immediately discharged the said debt by paying it
off, and then handed the property over to the Synod entirely free of
debt. (For the Synod's thanks for this generous disposition, see under
"Expressions of Gratitude.")

Bequest Forms.

1. I give and bequeath to the German Evangelical Lutheran
Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and other States, and to its assigns, the
sum of — — Dollars ($ — —).

2. I give and devise to the German Evangelical Lutheran Synod
of Missouri, Ohio, and other States, and to its assigns, forever, the
following property, to-wit: (here follows the description of the
property to be bequeathed).