# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S295
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Financial Matters 7 205

General Synodical Matters
The Board was convinced that it was the wish of Synod to
on: and perpetuate the memory of its sainted former President:
Pfotenhauer, who died October 9, 1939. Funds were solicited
fo ‘a memorial for his grave. A granite cross, eight feet high, was
‘ected, with suitable inscriptions and emblems, in' which matter
wishes of the family were consulted. The memorial was dedi-
ted on June 14, 1942. Since no new office building was erected,
ithe ‘résolution on page 414 of the 1941 Proceedings could not be
rried-.out.
‘7. One of the matters referred to the Board was the reorgani-
of Concordia Publishing House, which had become necessary:
ecause the old charter had expired. The following resolution,
ib itted by our attorney, was adopted July 8, 1941: .
“Wuereas, The charter of Concordia Publishing House of
‘StaLouis, Missouri, granted on the 28th day of May, A.D. 1891, by
e State of Missouri, expired by limitation on the 27th day of May,
i ‘D. 1941, said corporation having been chartered for a period of
fifty years; and ,
; *-“Wuereas, The Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio,
‘and Other States in convention assembled at Fort Wayne, Indiana,
from June 18 to June 27, 1941, did authorize and empower its Board -
of Directors to procure a new charter for said Concordia Publishing:
House, which said charter was to be approved by, this Board; and

“Wuereas, This Board did approve a form of charter at its
meeting held this day in the city of St. Louis, Missouri; and

“Wuereas, Said Synod at its convention further “resolved that
if and when said new corporation, Concordia Publishing House,
was organized, that this Board direct the last Board of Directors,
they being the liquidating trustees of said Concordia Publishing
House, whose charter had: expired by limitations, to transfer over
to said new corporation all of the assets, real and personal, of said.
corporation whose charter expired; now, therefore, be it ,

“Resolved, That all of the property and assets of the former
= corporation known as Concordia Publishing House, real and per-
sonal, corporeal and incorporeal, subject to all of its debts and |
; liabilities, including taxes and insurance, and all other obligations.
. of every kind and nature whatsoever, be transferred, conveyed, and! ©
set over to the new corporation as and when formed; and that the-
Board of Directors of the former corporation, as liquidating trustees:
under the laws of the State of Missouri, be and are hereby author-
ized and directed for the purpose of carrying out said transfer, to
execute all deeds, conveyances, assignments, transfers, and docu-