# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1935_S207
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

194 Proceedings of Thirty-Sixth Regular Convention,

incorporation of its colleges and seminaries not followed a uniform
Policy. Some colleges and seminaries are reported to be incorporated ;
others are reported not incorporated. Said committee recommends
that all colleges and seminaries be properly incorporated, because in
its opinion the legal advantages of incorporation outweigh the ad-
vantages of the Present condition,

From the report of said committee it further appears that under
the present existing charters great divergence éxists as to boards of
control, or trustees, and it advises that this situation be clarified and
corrected.

Finally the report shows that the legal status of Synod’s title
to colleges in foreign countries and its rights in these countries raises
many peculiar and serious questions and that not nearly ag much
thought was given to the question as the situation demands. And
said committee recommends that the titles to the property of. each
institution as well as its legal status under the law of the State or

- tions that must be given careful study and must be dealt with only

upon competent legal advice,

Your Committee therefore recommends : ~~
1. That the articles of incorporation of all those institutions of
Synod reported as incorporated be examined and determined;

2. That all those institutions reported as not being incorporated
be incorporated 3

Corporation, and to make provision that at all times the interest of
Synod in the Property and control of the institution be properly safe-
guarded.