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GOALS ATTAINED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA- In the United States of America a plot has been acquired in the precincts of the Mother Temple of the West to serve as the site for the construction of a Home for the Aged, and which will constitute the first of the Dependencies to be erected around that holiest Baha'i House of Worship. Measures have been adopted, and the design authorized, for the completion of the landscaping of the area surrounding that same building. The National Baha'i Publishing Committee has been converted into a Baha'i Publishing Trust, functioning under the jurisdiction of the American National Spiritual Assembly. The total number of American Indian tribes with which contact has been established has now reached twenty-two, whilst members of the Apache, the Cherokee, the Omaha, the Oneida, and the Sioux tribes have been enrolled in the American Baha'i Community. The number of territories, federal districts and states of the United States of America where official authorization for the conduct of Baha'i marriages has been granted is now twenty-one, whilst the number of localities in that same country where the Baha'i Holy Days are officially recognized is over twenty-five.
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