# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1905_S156
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156 Proceedings of the 26th General or

...represent, and which are also in the hands of the administrative officers. The former sum was immediately invested profitably. The charitable testatrix designated the proceeds for the General Relief Fund.

"Another bequest — the donor does not wish to be named during her lifetime — which has up to now been administered by Pastor Huge of Bingen, Ind., consisting of a sum of $2000.00, has now also been handed over to the Commission for administration, and it has invested the capital profitably. The proceeds are always to be devoted to a poor pupil of the institution at Fort Wayne; pupils from Bingen, Ind., are to be given preference.

"The General Treasurer received, on October 15, 1904, a bequest of the deceased Barbara Oertner of Gunzenhausen, consisting of a cash sum of $208.00 for the Heathen Mission Fund.

"Likewise he received for the Synodical fund, on March 23, 1904, the bequest of the late Jacob Roths of Defiance, O., in the amount of $41.75; further, on February 1, 1905, a legacy bequeathed to the institution at Addison by J. O. Piepenbrink in the amount of $200.00, which was used, according to the testator's stipulation, by the supervisory board there.

"The Commission's main work, however, consisted in carrying out the wish, so often expressed by the Synod, that a complete report of all the Synod's legacies appear in the "Lutheraner," which has, in fact, after much effort and trouble, been accomplished. Only the supervisory board of the educational institution at Fort Wayne, Ind., could not be persuaded, within the last several years, to submit to the Commission a report on the legacies it administers. The Commission proposes that the Synod call the said supervisory board to account for this neglect of its so clearly stated obligation.

"All legacies added in recent years are entered in the ledger. The cashbook, as well as the minutes of the last triennium, lie before the Honorable Synod for examination.

"Finally, the Commission also proposes adding the General Treasurer to the legacy administration as a member ex officio, since this would ease the conduct of business." (Report of the Commission for Legacy Administration.)

1. Resolved, that the congregation at Freistatt, Mo., be notified through the Commission that none of the land of the Raithel Foundation can be made over to it for a congregational cemetery, because the wording of the will forbids any sale of this land.