# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1935_S206
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Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States.. 1935. 195

6. Concerning the incorporation of our college at Bronxville, to
which attention is called in the report of the Board of Directors,
Memorial 601;--A, 7, p.211, your Committee recommends that the
matter be left to the disposition of the Board of Directors of Synod
and the Board of Control of Bronxville, with the provision that Synod
safeguard its property rights and its control over the institution.

Action of Synod.
This report with its reeommendations was adopted.

Synod also adopted the following ENABLING ACT: —

In view of the fact that our Synod now holds title to real estate
situated in States where a foreign corporation cannot legally hold
title to real estate and also in States where the real estate of a foreign
corporation is taxable,

Be it resolved by the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri,
Ohio, and Other States, in convention assembled at the city of Cleve-
land, Ohio, June 19 to 28, 1935, that the Board of Directors be, and
it hereby is, authorized and empowered, ——

First: To cause domestic corporations to be created in all States
where the Synod as a foreign corporation cannot legally hold title
to real estate and also in States where the property of foreign cor-
porations is subject to taxation.

Secondly: In the name of Synod to convey to such domestic cor-
porations by warranty deed or otherwise the title to real estate now
standing in the name of Synod-and situated in States where a foreign
corporation cannot legally hold title to real estate and to domestic
corporations in States where the property of foreign corporations is
subject to taxation.

Thirdly: To procure the advice of competent legal counsel in the
matters herein mentioned and to make provision that the interests of
Synod be properly safeguarded.

Report of Committee on Amalgamation of the
Congregations of the English District
with Their Respective Geographical Districts.
(Memorial 404. )

The undersigned committee was appointed by the President of
Synod pursuant to resolutions adopted by the Delegate Body in Mil-
waukee in June, 1932. (Proceedings, 1932, p. 164.) Acting upon the
instructions embodied in those resolutions, the committee addressed

the following communication to the English District, assembled at
River Forest in June, 1933:— |