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.