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    "ocrText": "3. The Commission shall also study, with the highest\nthat a joint commission, properly funded and staffed in\npriority, the desirability of recommending a system of contri-\nWashington, D.C., and San Juan, Puerto Rico, is needed to\nbutory payments from the Government of the Free Associated\nreplace the prior inadequate and inefficient piecemeal\nState to the Treasury of the United States, to be initiated at\napproach.\nthe appropriate time, in gradual ways which will not substan-\nOur deliberations have demonstrated that Puerto\ntially impede the economic and social development of Puerto\nRico's development requires myriad and diverse solutions\nRico, based upon disbursements which shall be made by the\nwhich can only be provided by a joint instrumentality. It is\nLegislature of the Free Associated State from the general fund\ndifficult to assign degrees of importance to individual\nor any other sources subject to the legislative action of the\nsections of a document such as this Compact, but we wish\nFree Associated State.\nto express in the strongest terms possible our endorsement\nc. The Commission shall have a professional and technical staff\nof this section creating a joint commission to participate in\nand may use the services of the research institutions which it\nthe further development of self-government and self-\ndeems convenient; and is hereby authorized to request and receive\ndetermination by the people of Puerto Rico. We want this\nthe cooperation of any department, agency, or bureau of the\nAd Hoc Committee to be the one which ends ad hoc\nUnited States or of the Free Associated State.\ncommittees on Puerto Rico.\nd. The Commission shall have an annual budget, to be shared\nThe Joint Commission is initially charged to study and\nin equal parts by the Government of the United States and the\nmake recommendations concerning the desirability of\nGovernment of the Free Associated State. The Commission shall\nretaining, modifying or eliminating the application of\nformulate its own budget proposal annually. There shall be appro-\nspecific Federallaws, the transfer of Federal functions to\npriated by the respective governments such sums as are necessary\nthe Free Associated State, and the desirability of providing\nto sufficiently fund the functions and operations of the Commis-\nfor a system of contributory payments from the Govern-\nsion for the first two years.\nment of the Free .Associated State to the Treasury of the\nUnited States.\nThe study of a system of contributory payments has\n14. Joint Commission\nbeen included at the specific request of the Puerto Rican\ndelegation which has felt that since Puerto Rico does not\nThe advances in the development and growth of\npropose to become a federated state, a method of\nCommonwealth since the 1950-52 legislation and compact\nincreasingly sharing the common Federal burden must be\nhave been the result of considerable effort by many\ndeveloped in a manner which is compatible with the\ndedicated individuals, often slowed and frustrated by the\nConstitution of the United States, does not impede the\nutilization of independent and sporadic commitees and ad\neconomic growth of Puerto Rico nor abolish or reduce its\nhoc advisory groups lacking in continuing expertise and\nessential fiscal autonomy. This objective, a difficult as well\nadequate financial assistance. Thus, it was with this back-\nas a praiseworthy one, has repeatedly been suggested by\nground that this Advisory Group began its work two years\nthe Puerto Rican Co-chairman of the Advisory Group,\nago.\nformer Governor Luis Muñoz Marín, since the founding of\nWe have reviewed the work of the first Ad Hoc Ad-\nCommonwealth.\nvisory Group and have completed approximately two years\nof our own deliberations, and we are thoroughly convinced\n36\n37"
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