the National Spiritual
Assembly of the Baha'is of Canada was to be established, and land on Mount
Carmel registered in your name.

In the Guardian's Ridvan Message of April, 1954, you will note he has
advised that the Israel Branch of the Baha'is of Canada was formed. The
actual date of the formation was November 20, 1953.

The land of Mount Carmel, which the Guardian had instructed be registered
in the name of the Israel Branch of the Canadian Assembly was transferred
to the title of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Canada,
Israel Branch, on October 1, 1954.

I am attaching hereto, for preservation in your files, the title deed
covering this particular piece of land, which is Parcel No. 304, Block
10811, Mount Carmel, Haifa.

With loving Baha'i greetings, I am

Faithfully yours,
LEROY IOAS,
Assistant Secretary.

Letter of March 3, 1955

Haifa, Israel,
March 3, 1955.

DEPRIVATION OF VOTING RIGHTS

National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Canada.

Our beloved Guardian has instructed me to write you on his behalf and
bring to your attention a certain matter.

He has heard from a number of sources that some of the Canadian believers
have been deprived of their voting rights; and he feels that all National
Spiritual Assemblies should bear in mind that this is the heaviest
sanction we possess at present in the Faith, short of excommunication,
which lies within the powers of the Guardian alone; and is consequently a
very weighty weapon to wield.

He considers that under no circumstances should any Baha'i ever be
suspended from the voting list and deprived of his administrative
privileges for a matter which is not of the utmost gravity. By that he
means breaking of laws, such as the consent of parents to marriage etc.,
or acts of such an immoral character as to damage the good name of the
Faith.

He has informed, some years ago, the American National Spiritual Assembly
that, before anyone is deprived of their voting rights, they should be
consulted with and lovingly admonished at first, given repeated warnings
if they do not mend their immoral ways, or whatever other extremely
serious misdemeanor they are committing, and finally, after these repeated
warnings, be deprived of their voting rights.

He feels that a great many problems within the communities would be solved
if the believers would more constructively devote their attention to the
teaching work and carrying out the