File No. 711.5914/121
[Untitled]
Copenhagen, August 24, 1916, midnight.
326. Your 153, August 22, 5 p.m. Foreign Minister informs me in writing.
The congregation of Christiansted represented by attendance board for the church society is the owner of a home for old people. Purchase money plus expenses for repairs amounts to twenty thousand francs. The fund for the relief of the poor owns a little more than half of the amount, the residue may be obtained fass from an irredeemable loan of public money amounting to nine thousand francs on which annual interest will be paid. The accounts of the fund for the relief of the poor are audited by the Ministry of Finance.
The congregation of Fredericksted owns a mission house valued at ten thousand francs which amount as far as I know has been paid. In addition hereto congregation owns a small home for old people, purchase money of which has been partly paid out of the fund for the relief of the poor. I am unable to state the amount—it may be estimated at about ten thousand Kroner.
The interest accruing from the aforesaid fund for the relief of the poor was formerly divided into small monthly payment, but of late years it has been thought a better plan to invest the money in buildings, thus procuring good and cheap or free habitations for old people.
The congregation of Saint Thomas represented by a board elected by the confirmed members of the congregation owns a mission house valued at twenty-two thousand francs which I suppose has been fully paid now. The house contains good premises in which large meetings may be held in addition to some small fiats for old people.
The congregation of Saint Jan has a small mission house worth about three thousand two hundred and fifty francs which has been obtained out of public funds. This amount is being redeemed with three hundred Kroner annually in which is included interest, the building has been conveyed to the Lutheran Sunday School at Saint Jan.