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  1. marked headway in the next eighteen months in correcting the outstanding defects. It should then be in a position to make concrete specific recommendations to Congress for further development. Further additional appropriations will be required and should be expected each year for about five years.

    In establishing new services Congress has frequently recognized the necessity for granting a lump sum appropriation because of the difficulty, if not the impossibility, of prescribing in detail exactly how the the money shall be expended. The situation in the Indian Service is in many ways similar. An emergency exists. Meeting of the emergency will be materially delayed unless Congress will give to the administration the resources to make the major initial steps for its correction without requiring minute plans and specifications. To get minute plans and specifications, will require a much larger force, both in the Washington office and in the field, than the Service now possesses. The recommendations here made are designed to permit marked advancement along the obvious lines and to furnish to the Bureau of the Budget and to Congress well designed plans and adequate supporting data for further development.

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