# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1914_S158
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158 Proceedings of the 29th General or

We therefore recommend to a Reverend Synod that the responsible
officers be instructed to have this part of the said property, too,
legally transferred to the said society.

Adopted.

A Particular Letter.

Committee report.

Finally, your committee was handed a letter from a member of the
Synod, for the judging of which we lack the necessary information. We
therefore return it to the Synod.

No resolution adopted.

Report of the Commission for the Administration of Bequests.

The Bequests Commission administers the following bequests:

1. Bequest: "A Pastor's Wife's Savings"; sum: $1,000. The yield of
the last three years was $125, which flows into the General Home
Mission treasury.

2. Bequest: the Louise Mohn Bequest; sum: $10,000. Last year's
yield: $57.17. The yield is designated for General Home Missions and
for orphaned children. This bequest consists of real estate and cash.
A piece of land worth $3,000 in Los Angeles, Cal., was transferred, in
accordance with the testatrix's wish, to the English Grace Mission
there; the remaining $7,000 is administered by the commission for the
purpose named above.

3. Bequest: the Steinfath Bequest; sum: $47.50. Yield of the last
three years, $5.95; designated for Home Missions.

4. Bequest: the Dierkson Bequest; sum: $500. Yield of the last three
years, $62.50; likewise to be used for Home Missions.

5. Bequest: "Endowment of a Northern Friend of Missions"; sum:
$1,000. Yield of the last three years, $75; the yield is designated for
poor students.

6. Bequest: the Weisbrodt Bequest; sum: $656.94. Yield during the
last three years: $24.63. This flows into the fund for poor students.

7. Bequest: the Scheel Bequest; sum: $1,000. Yield during the last
three years: $37.50; flows into the fund for poor students.

8. Bequest: the Pötsch Bequest; sum: $1,000. Yield of the last three
years: $200.48; benefits the fund for poor students.

9. Bequest: the Starke Bequest; sum: $1,000. Yield of the last three
years: $125; flows into the student fund.

10. Bequest: the Willner Bequest; sum: $3,113.56. Yield of the last
triennium: $309.99; likewise designated for the student fund.

11. Bequest: the Raithel Bequest; the sum cannot be stated, since
this bequest consists of real property of 675 acres near