The task, at once arduous, thrilling and challenging, which now confronts
these four Bahá’í communities involves: First, the formation, under the
aegis of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United
States, and in collaboration with the two existing national assemblies in
Latin America, of one national spiritual assembly in each of the twenty
Latin American republics as well as the establishment of a national
spiritual assembly in Alaska under the aegis of the National Spiritual
Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States of America. Second, the
establishment of the first dependency of the Ma_sh_riqu’l-A_dh_kár in
Wilmette. Third, the purchase of land for the future construction of two
Ma_sh_riqu’l-A_dh_kárs, one in Toronto, Ontario; one in Panama City,
Panama, situated respectively in North and in Central America. Fourth, the
opening of the following twenty-seven virgin territories and islands:
Anticosti Island, Baranof Island, Cape Breton Island, Franklin, Grand
Manan Island, Keewatin, Labrador, Magdalen Islands, Miquelon Island and
St. Pierre Island, Queen Charlotte Islands and Yukon, assigned to the
National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Canada; Aleutian Islands,
Falkland Islands, Key West and Kodiak Island assigned to the National
Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States of America; Bahama
Islands, British Honduras, Dutch West Indies and Margarita Island,
assigned to the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Central
America; British Guiana, Chilöe Island, Dutch Guiana, French Guiana,
Galapagos Islands, Juan Fernandez Islands, Leeward Islands, and Windward
Islands, assigned to the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of
South America. Fifth, the translation and publication of Bahá’í literature
in the following ten languages, to be undertaken by the National Spiritual
Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States of America: Aguaruna, Arawak,
Blackfoot, Cherokee, Iroquois, Lengua, Mataco, Maya, Mexican and Yahgan.
Sixth, the consolidation of Greenland, Mackenzie and Newfoundland,
allocated to the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Canada; of
Alaska, the Hawaiian Islands and Puerto Rico allocated to the National
Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States of America; of
Bermuda, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala,
Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Mexico, Nicaragua and Panama
allocated to the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Central
America; and of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador,
Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela, allocated to the National Spiritual
Assembly of the Bahá’ís of South America. Seventh, the incorporation of
the twenty-one above-mentioned national spiritual assemblies. Eighth, the
establishment by these same national spiritual assemblies of national
Bahá’í endowments. Ninth, the establishment of a national Hazíratu’l-Quds
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