# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1920_S80
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80 Proceedings of Thirty-First National Cony,

- Legacies Administered by Districts and Inst .
a , bd (As far as reported.)
The Iowa District reported a legacy valued at.
Northern Illinois District reported 6 legacies amounting to
° 2 and a farm of 80 acres; the Oregon and Washi
ae ; ported a legacy of $800 and 9 acres of land.
a: The Teachers’ College at River Forest reported 4 leg
' . ing to $10,270; St. John’s College of Winfield, 2
to $1,113.20. a
Two further memorials were in charge of this comm:
: suggesting that all property bequeathed to Synod be profit
.- vested unless otherwise specified by the testator; the other,
. that only the totals of offerings of congregations and the ;
tributed to the various treasuries be reported in the church
Both memorials were tabled.

“Curtailing Demands on Synodical Treasy

Wuenreas, The Synodical. Treasury has during the past yeaty
almost constantly in arrears, and

Wuereas, Its expenditures cannot be bounded, or even
termined, so long as each District has or, at least, assumes
to requisition salaries for incumbents of such offices as it
to create, from this treasury; therefore be it

. Resolved, That the salaries of only such offices as Synod itecH
i ' ‘created, and only expenses the defrayment of which Synogi

authorized, be paid out of the Synodical Treasury. 4
Lutheran Center in New York City. ©

; : An unprinted memorial of the Atlantic District recommiét
Me “| that Synod arrange a Lutheran Center to house such undertak
"es as Synod’s Immigrant Mission, the proposed Seamen’s Mission,
2 Eastern division of the Lutheran Laymen’s League, the ©
us Lutherdn Publicity Bureau, and the Lutheran Young Pe
3 Society, and at the same time offer place for a Lutheran Ho
4 The property shall be vested in the Immigrant Mission Society:
i be managed by a committee consisting of the aforementioned in
4 _ The Atlantic District agreed to raise $25,000 for this cause,
Synod appropriate the $80,000 in the treasury of the Immig

Mission and in addition thereto $50,000.
The proposition was tabled.

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