(See Epilogue).
44 The Local and National Houses of Justice are at the present time designated Local and National Assemblies, as previously indicated.
45 Of the Hands of the Cause appointed by Shoghi Effendi during his thirty-six year ministry, twenty-seven were living at the time of his passing.

He also instituted, in 1954, Auxiliary Boards to be appointed by the Hands and to be their deputies, assistants and advisors.
46 This section on the Administrative Order is taken from the article on The Present-Day Administration of the Baha'i Faith by Horace Holley, published in 1933 in The Baha'i World, Volume V, p.

191 et seq.

Passages in this article quoting from Baha'i writings have been replaced by newer translations where these are available.
47 The Universal House of Justice was elected for the first time in April 1986 by the members of fifty-six National Spiritual Assemblies.
48 In the year 1912.
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