December 13

In your letter of September 28,1953, you mentioned the sum of… as being included in the… allocated from your Assembly's Budget to the World Centre. The principle involved is as follows: The Guardian feels that your Assembly when allocating its annual budget, and having stipulated what sum is for the purposes of the International Centre of the Faith, should immediately pigeon-hole that sum to be at the Guardian's disposal. Any monies received as contributions from the Bahá'ís for the International Centre should not be credited to this account which represents a national joint contribution, and has nothing to do with individual or local contributions forwarded to the World Centre in your care. 

- Sgoghi Effendi  (From a letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi, 20 June 1954 to the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States; The Compilation of Compilations, vol. I, Baha’i Funds and Contributions)