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advisable even on large reservations to have a special employee for each type of service. On most reservations the present health situation will require for some time to come, the entire time of the public health nurse. The other classes of duties will have to be combined and one well qualified employee will have to perform several of them. The exact division will have to be worked out by the specialists from the central office, working in conjunction with the local authorities.
Maintenance of Order and Administration of Justice. The differences existing among the several jurisdictions with respect to such vital matters as the degree of economic and social advancement of the Indians, the homogeneity of the population, and their proximity to white civilization are so great that no specific act of Congress either conferring jurisdiction over the restricted Indians on state courts or providing a legal code and placing jurisdiction in the United States courts appears practicable. The law and the system of judicial administration to be effective must be specially adapted to the particular jurisdiction where they are to be applied, and they must be susceptible of change to meet changing conditions until the Indians are ready to merge into the general population and be subjected, like other inhabitants, to the ordinary national and state laws administered by United States and state courts exercising their normal jurisdictions.
The questions of how far the Indians in a given jurisdiction have advanced, or of what body of law relating to domestic relations and crimes and misdemeanors is best suited to their existing state of development and of what courts can best administer these laws, are too minute and too subject to change to warrant a recommendation that Congress attempt to legislate in detail for each jurisdiction.
The situation is clearly one where the best results can be secured if Congress will delegate its legislative authority through a general act to an appropriate agency, giving that agency power to classify the several jurisdictions and to provide for each class so established an appropriate body of law and a suitable court system. The power should also be given to advance, from time to time, the classification of any jurisdiction and to modify either the law or the court organization insofar as they are made by the agency and not by state law or act of Congress. The actions of the agency with