# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S144
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144 Proceedings of the 28th General or

giving of food, lodging, clothing, and education to such persons as
the corporation may select and designate.

"Third: To aid and assist needy congregations.

"In order to carry out the purposes above defined, this cor-
poration may acquire and hold, by purchase, subscription, gift, grant,
demise, devise, or otherwise, such real estate, buildings, personal
property of every kind and character, and franchises requisite for its
purposes, and reasonably adapted to accomplishing its objects; and
particularly to acquire and hold all rights, franchises, and privileges
of every description, and all real and personal property which is now
or may hereafter be held by the educational institutions enumerated
in the first subdivision of this article. But all the property owned
by this corporation, and which it may hereafter acquire, including
all its income from all sources, shall be used solely to carry out the
aforesaid purposes, and none of its property or income shall be used
for the pecuniary profit of any member of the corporation. The cor-
poration may receive property either by direct conveyance to it or by
declaration in trust." FRANKLIN FERRISS.

JOSEPH H. ZUMBALEN.

Up to now our "title" has been unchallenged, except by the assertions of the Milwaukee committee and its attorney. The government of the State of Missouri has recognized us as a corporation, and we are regarded as a lawful body. That even the most secure legal right to exist can be challenged, and that accordingly our incorporation too could be called into question before a court, admits of no doubt — just as almost the most innocent person can be brought up on charges over almost anything. Whether such a quo warranto proceeding against us would result in the forfeiture of our charter is an entirely different question. The attorneys we have consulted consider it highly improbable. But so long as no such annulment of our charter has taken place, we stand as a de facto legitimately incorporated company, and up to now we have been regarded as legitimate in all the states where we have bought and sold as an incorporated company. —

Committee No. 2, to which these reports were submitted for examination, judged as follows:

"Your Committee, which had to review the reports of the Milwaukee and St. Louis committees on incorporation, takes the liberty of informing the Reverend Synod that it has examined the matter closely, in that it summoned representatives of both committees before it and gave them the opportunity to present and justify the view each represented. After careful consideration of the material thus brought before Your Committee, Your Committee reached the decision to recommend to the Reverend Synod that it drop the question of the validity of the incorporation, since