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and has been found a durable stone that withstands heat and cold. Monuments and tombstones cut from it forty years ago show sharp corners and chisel marks untarnished by the ravages of time. It is not the province of a geological survey to open coal mines or de- velop stone quarries, but to point out where capital may be invested with the prospect of a fair return for time and money expended; a reasonable experiment in opening the quarry sandstone of the Wall ridge and putting the stone in shape for use would certainly prove a financial success. For water tables, window sill and caps, the rapid growth of Columbus and demands of the surrounding country would furnish a good local market. It is a persistent bed, outcropping on all sides of the Wall ridge. Great blocks were seen on the south and north in crossing the ridge from John Ault's place to Bethany. The Dowell hill quarries are in the same range and show the same stone. Mr. M. Powell, near the Brown County line, has eighty acres of quarry that can be worked at almost any point. To multiply outcrops would be to give a list of the land owners of nearly the whole west half of Harrison Township.
Section at Henry Grass' Quarry, Harrison Township.
Soil free from gravel. I ft. o in.
Shale and sandstone in thin beds and wedge-shaped
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masses, Knobstone group, No. I, C. S. . 7 ft. o in. Sandstone banded with iron ore, No. I, C. S., irregu- larly bedded. I ft. I in.
Sandstone, even bedded, No. 2, C. S.
I ft. 7 in.
Massive sandstone in an even, continuous bed, without
any indications of horizontal seams or partings, No. 2, C. S 2 ft. 9 in.
Thin drab shales, No. 3, C. S .. 50 ft. o in.
Shale and iron ore, No. 4, C. S. 87 ft. o in.
Blue aluminous shale, No. 5, C. S 47 ft. o in.
Total. 185 ft. 5 in.
This section embraces forty-two feet of blue shale and reaches to a level with Mr. Grass' residence; to the bed of Wolf Creek
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would add thirty-five feet more. The two feet nine inches stratum is a rather coarse grained dark sodden looking stone that is worked mainly for foundations, and is remarkable for uniformity of struc- ture and evenness of bedding for the whole length of the quarry.
Hartsville Fossils .- As no attempt was made in the body of this report to give a list, even of the more common fossils of the calcareous shale, the following is here inserted and embraces all the species except Bryozoa, that have been identified. An exami- nation will show that it compares very favorably with the cele- brated and well known Waldron locality.
Protozoa .- Receptaculites subturbinatus, H., rare; Astylos- pongia præmorsa, Goldf., not rare.
Corals and Bryozoa .- Streptelasma radicans, H., rare; Strep- telasma borealis, H., not rare; Favosites spinigerus, H., not rare; Favosites forbesi var. occidentalis, H., common; Lichenalia con- centrica, H., common.
Crinoidea .- Saccocrinus christyi, H., not rare; Macrostylocri- nus striatus, H., rare; Macrostylocrinus fasciatus, H., rare; Glyp- tocrinus carleyi, H., rare; Glyptaster occidentalis, H., rare; Glyp- taster inornatus, H., not rare; Codaster pulchellus, M. and D., rare; Cyathocrinus polyxo, H., rare; Cyathocrinus nucleus, H., rare; Lecanocrinus pusillus, H., rare; Melocrinus (ined), not rare; Rhodocrinus melissa, H., common; Eucalyptocrinus crassus, H., common; Eucalyptocrinus cælatus, H., common; Eucalyptocrinus ovatus, Troost, rare; Stephanocrinus gemmiformis, H., very rare.
Brachiopoda .- Crania siluriana, H., rare; Crania setifera, H., rare; Orthis hybrida, Sowerby, not rare; Orthis elegantula, Dalman, not rare; Streptorhynchus subplana, Conrad, not rare; Strophomena rhomboidalis, Wahlenberg, not rare; Strophonella semifasciata, H., very rare; Spirifera eudora, H., rare; Spirifera crispa, Hisinger, common; Spirifera crispa var. simplex, H., rare; Spirifera radiata, Sowerby, common; Spirifera waldronensis, M. and D., rare; Meristina maria, H., common; Meristina nitida, H., very common; Nucleospira pisiformis, H., rare; Retzia evax H., very common; Atrypa reticularis, Linn, very common; Rhynchonella neglecta, H., not rare; Rhynchonella acinus, H., not rare; Rhyn- chonella indianensis, H., common; Rhynchonella whitii, H., very
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common; Rhynchonella stricklandi, Sowerby, not rare; Rhyn- chonella cuneata, H., common; Anastrophia internascens, H., com- mon; Eichwaldia reticulata, H., not rare.
Lamellibranchiata .- Pterinea brisa, H., very rare. Modiolop- sis subalata, H.
Gastropoda .- Platyostoma niagarense, H., common; Platyos- toma plebium, H., not common; Strophostylus cyclostomus, H., common ; Strophostylus cyclostomus var. disjunctus, H., not common.
Cephalopoda .- Orthoceras simulator, H., very rare; Trocho- ceras waldronense, H., very rare.
Annelida .- Cornulites proprius, H., not rare.
Crustacca .- Calymene niagarensis, H., not rare; Homalonotus delphinocephalus, Green., rare; Cyphaspis christyi, H., rare; Illæ- nus armatus, H., rare; Dalınanites vigilans, H., not rare; Dalman- ites verrucosus H., not rare; Lichas boltoni, var. occidentalis, H., rare.
All the above species were found on Clifty Creek and tributar- ies, near Hartsville. Probably the best places for collecting are the Tarr hole and Anderson's Falls. The north bank and bluffs of Little Sand Creek, above Manly's limekiln, is the best place for getting corniferous group fossils; the corals are frequently very fine. The corals from the lower beds are found scattered over the fields and woods, mixed with the surface soil.
Among the corals' found may be mentioned Favosites favosus, Gold., F. hemisphericus, Y. & S. F. emmonsı, Rom., F., niagaren- sis, H., Michelinia trochiscus, Rom., Pleurodictyum problematicum, Cyathophyllum cornicula, Rom., C., geniculatum, Rom., C. rugos- um, E. H., C. davidsoni, M. E., C. radicula, Rom., Blothrophyllum decorticatum, Billings, Phillipsastrea verneuili, M. E., Zaphrentis gigantea, Raff. Z. compressa, Rom., Amplexus yandelli, M. E., Cy- stiphyllum americanum, M. E. One single specimen of Nucleocri- nus angularis, Lyon, was found at the same locality, and a few species of brachiopods.
Antiquities .- That the East White River valley was once in- habited by a race of people superior to the Delaware Indians, the last tribe to disappear before the "star of empire," is shown by the number of stone implements, axes, hatchets and fragments of pot-
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tery, found scattered over the soil. Some of these relics are very fine, especially a highly finished dark stone pipe in the shape of a Bird's head and bill, owned by Mrs. Dr. George Remy, found near Newbern, and an oblong double, greenstone hatchet and flesher, found and owned by Mr. VanBlaricum, near Burnsville. A num- ber of elevations are pointed out as the work of the mound-build- ers, but we failed, wherever they were examined, to find any of the . so-called Indian mounds of any other than natural origin. The mound on the Hacker farm, just above the Manley limekiln, is clearly proven to be a part of the high bank north of Little Sand Creek, by an excavation made in the side, that exposes the rock of the mound and shows it to be continuous with the strata of the ad- joining bluff. The Indians' burial place on the farm of Mr: James C. Remy, near Burnsville, is a natural ridge of upland gravel. That the Judge Tunis Quick Mound, in Flat Rock Township, is not arti- ficial, has been indicated in the discussion of the Drift period. In structure it is identical with the Hawpatch gravel, and shows no evidence whatever of being the work of man. It is not a mound but an irregular hill that slopes to the south. We did not have an opportunity to examine the Tipton hill in Columbus, but from what we could learn the same is true of it. Artificial mounds ought to show peculiarities in stratification different from that of the sur- rounding plain. The finding of bones only proves that advantage was taken of the higher points to locate a cemetery. Bones have been taken from the bluff between the junction of Clifty and Fall Fork creeks, from the Remy gravel bed, and the so-called Hacker . mound, but nothing else, so far as we could ascertain. If, in open- ing these mounds, beds of ashes, buried soil, broken bones of ani- mals, water jugs, pottery, pipes, beads or ornaments were found, the proof would be conclusive that they were the work of the ex- tinct race race of mound builders, but as only bones have been found they are probably the "last resting places" of the modern Red man. In expressing the above opinion, we know we run counter to the traditions of the mass of the people, and if our adverse opin- . ion shall be the means of inducing some one to hunt up proof that our so-called mounds are artificial, or the burial place of the mound builders, we shall be pleased and have done a good work.
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CHAPTER II.
COUNTY ORGANIZATION - LEGISLATIVE ENACTMENT - FIRST BOARD AND ITS DOINGS-LOCATING THIE COUNTY SEAT- SALE OF LOTS-CHANGES IN THE BOARD -- FINANCES- COUNTY POOR -PUBLIC BUILDINGS, COURT HOUSES AND JAILS-AVENUES OF TRAVEL-FERRIES AND BRIDGES- PUBLIC OFFICERS-ELECTIONS -ORGANIZATION OF TOWN- SHIPS - AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES - MEDICAL SOCIETY.
NE of the purest and most patriotic of Indiana pio- neers was General Joseph Bartholomew, for many years a distinguished citizen of Clarke County. He was the descendant of a Puritan family that emigrated from London to the Massachusetts colony in 1634-5, and whose members figured prominently in the General Court of the colony. But the luster of his name was not borrowed from the achievements of his antecedents. By the strength of his heroic character he placed it on the lips of men. He was self- taught, modest, brave, and honest. Solely by his merits as a man and a soldier he obtained distinction. In the frontier Indian trou- bles he was ever foremost in times of danger. Rising to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, he commanded a battalion of infantry at the battle of Tippecanoe, where he was severely wounded. Death closed his eventful and honorable career in 1840. He was a State Senator from 1821 to 1824. When in January, 1821, a new county was formed out of Delaware, Samuel Merrill suggested that it be named in honor of General Bartholomew, and the motion to that effect was made by General John Tipton, whose influence on the new organic body was subsequently far more potent than that of the man whose name it bore. A likeness of General Bartholomew, re- flecting his sturdy manliness, was recently obtained for the county through the efforts of Mr. George Pence and other prominent citi- zens, and now hangs in the east court room.
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The act of the General Assembly creating the county was passed January 9, 1821. Several changes in the extent of the county were Subsequently made by the formation of new counties and in that natural shifting of boundary lines incident to new States. The or- ganization of Brown County, February 4, 1836, took a large strip of territory from the west side of Bartholomew County. Orig- inally the county was bounded on the north by Morgan, Johnson, and Shelby, on the east by Shelby, Decatur, and Jennings, on the south by Jennings and Jackson, and on the west by Monroe. At present it is bounded on the north by Johnson and Shelby, on the east by Decatur and Jennings, on the south by Jennings and Jack- son, and on the west by Jackson and Brown.
Organization and Early Official Acts .- On Thursday the 15th day of February, 1821, William Ruddick, Jesse Ruddick, and Solo- mon Stout met at the house of Luke Bonesteel and each produc- ing a certificate of election as County Commissioner from under the hands of the County Sheriff, with a certificate of qualification en- dorsed thereon, organized the first Board of Commissioners for Bartholomew County. The appointment of Edward Ballenger as Clerk of the Board " until the Clerk of the Circuit Court shall be com- missioned and qualified " was the first business transacted after organ- ization. The adoption of a seal followed, and then the report of the Commissioners appointed by the Legislature to select and es- tablish a permanent seat of justice for the county was received. These Commissioners were : William P. Thomason, Eb. E. Morgan, John E. Clark and James Hamilton. They selected the present site of the city of Columbus and contracted with John Tipton for thirty acres of land in Section 24, Township 9, of Range 5 east, for $1,000, and with Luke Bonesteel for thirty acres in Section 25, Township 9, of Range 5 east, for $2,000. The town was to be called Tiptona. The following allowances were made to the Com- missioners for services rendered: To W. P. Thomason, $30; Eb. E. Morgan, $30; John E. Clark, $24; James Hamilton, $18.
The Board then divided the county into three voting districts, to be designated as Northern, Middle, and Southern. The North- ern District comprised all that part of the county lying north of the line dividing congressional townships 9 and 10; the Southern,
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all that lying south of the line dividing congressional townships 8 and 9; and the Middle, all that lying within the two lines named. An election in each of the several districts named was ordered for the purpose of electing Justices of the Peace: in the Northern District, at the house of John Pence, with Samuel Chappell as Inspector; in the Southern District, at that of William Stowers, with James Vanzant as Inspector; and in the Middle District, at that of Luke Bonesteel, with James McCowan as Inspector. The County Agent was directed to employ John Vawter to lay off the county town, and Elijah Sloan was appointed Superintendent of the school section in Township 9, north of Range 6 east. The Board then adjourned until February 26, when it again assembled with all the members present. Most of that day was consumed in the appoint- ment of officers. John Lindsey was appointed County Agent, Luke Bonesteel, County Treasurer, and Joseph Pownal, lister of tax- able property in the county. The Sheriff was directed to summon nineteen Grand Jurors and twenty-four Traverse Jurors to appear at the house of Luke Bonesteel on March 12 next thereafter, and the Board adjourned. Edward Ballenger, who was appointed to act as Clerk of the Board of Commissioners temporarily at the first meeting as above noted, was subsequently elected Clerk of the Circuit Court and thus became ex-officio Clerk of the Board of Commissioners, but died soon thereafter and was succeeded by Joseph Mckinney. Though a seal was formally adopted February 15, 1821, as indicated, a description of it is not given, and it was not in fact obtained till late in 1822. In November of that year, James Goodwin, then a Commissioner, was allowed $3 for a · seal and $4.75 for traveling expenses in obtaining the same.
The conveyance of the land contracted for as a site for the seat of government as recited above, was not made by Mr. Bonesteel until August 9, 1821, at which time he and his wife Julia for the sum of $2,000 "good and lawful money," conveyed to John Farquar, County Agent, the thirty acres named. The pay- ment for this land was made in town lots which this agent con- veyed to Bonesteel, naming the same amount, $2,000, as the consideration. The deed for the additional thirty acres was not
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executed by Gen. John Tipton, of Harrison County, until April 19, 1822, when no consideration was named, the land being donated.
. On the day next following the adjournment last named, that is, on February 27, 1821, the Board of Commissioners re-convened and proceeded to appoint constables for the several voting districts, and Superintendents of certain school sections. Elections were again ordered in the Northern and Middle Districts for the purpose of electing additional Justices of the Peace, to be held on the fol- lowing 10th day of March, the houses of Joseph Robertson on Clifty, and James Goodwin, respectively, being designated as poll- ing places. It was then ordered that the town lots in Tiptona be laid off 60 feet front by 120 feet deep, with four streets eighty feet wide and with alleys twelve feet wide. (These divisions were subsequently changed.) The County Agent was directed to sur- vey Tiptona as soon as possible and advertise the sale of lots in the Corydon, Indiana, papers, the Chillicothe (Ohio) Supporter, and the Louisville (Kentucky) Correspondent. The center of the public square was fixed at the stake dividing fractional Sections 24 and 25. Luke Bonesteel was allowed $50 for his house in Tiptona which had been purchased to be used as a court house.
On March 19th following, the Commissioners again met for the transaction of public business. The records now show that they assembled at the court house, no longer " the house of Luke Bonesteel." Seth Lockwood and Daniel Hutchins were appointed Constables for the Middle and Northern Districts, respectively, and being present with their bonds, were duly qualified. James Quick was appointed Inspector of elections in the Northern District. The Board of Commissioners then proceeded to consider the first con- tested election case. The office of Justice of the Peace had not then been shorn of its power and glory as in after years happened to it. The Squire clothed with the honor and dignity of his office, was a man of considerable influence, giving character to the neigh- borhood in which he lived. In the Middle District the election for Justice of the Peace was a lively one, and there was some doubt as to who should get the prize. John S. McEwen was returned as elected, but his right was contested. After hearing the whole
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matter the Commissioners confirmed the election, holding that proper and lawful notice of the contest had not been given. On March 20th, following, the Commissioners rescinded their former order, directing the County Agent to lay off Tiptona. The town had been named in honor of Gen. Tipton, and now the Commis- sioners were considering the propriety of making a change and a short order without assigning reasons therefor was entered of rec- ord, directing that the town be designated and known as Columbus thereafter. The size of lots in " Columbus, alias Tiptona," as the records have it, were ordered to be laid out with a frontage of seventy-five feet, and a depth of 150 feet. Eight lots were to con- stitute a block, and the public square was to be one block of lots .. June 15th was fixed as the time for the sale of lots. The County Agent was directed to advertise at Columbus, Brownstown and Vernon for proposals, and to sell to the lowest bidder, contracts for cleaning the public square, for building a stray pen or pound, to be thirty-five feet square of " hughed " logs, with a door, a lock and a key, and for building a jail. The stray pen was to be erected on the northeast corner of the public square. The jail is elsewhere mentioned in detail. At this meeting of the Board, elections were again ordered to be held on March 31st, following, in the Middle and Northern Districts, at the court house, and the house of James Goodwin, respectively, for the purpose of electing Justices of the Peace. On May 15th, Samuel Downing was appointed County Agent, and a new township, to be known as Sand Creek Town- ship, was organized.
On the 14th day of June, 1821, the County Agent, Samuel Dowling, was directed to commence the sale of lots at lot No. 86, and to continue as long as they " shall sell well," or until further ordered by the Board, reserving, however, lot No. 119 from sale. He was directed to receive " nothing but specie, or paper money at par with specie, unless the purchasers will make the usual dis- .count in Indiana on any other paper money so as to make it equal to specie." The terms of the sale were one-fifth cash and the bal- ance in two equal payments, due in one and two years, satisfac- torily secured. A rebate of eight per cent. per annum was to be allowed on cash payments of the whole sum due. Claims already
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acted upon and allowed by the Board of Commissioners for which parties held unpaid orders upon the Treasurer were to be received in payment for lots, not, however, until a sufficient amount of specie had been received to liquidate certain preferred claims, namely : those of the Commissioners appointed by the Legislature to estab- lish the permanent county seat, and the Sheriff of Jackson County, who had notified them of their appointment, amounting to $112; that of John McEwen, "first payment on the jail," $83; that of a Mr. Kelley for building the stray pen, $27; that for clearing the public square and laying out the town, $46.621/2, and that of Luke Bonesteel for his house, $50. The sale occurred on the day fixed for it, and the first lot sold - No. 86- was bought by David Stipp for $211. No other lot brought quite so much, though several sold for upward of $175. The cheapest lots were Nos. 94 and 115, selling for $11 each, and being purchased by Thomas Harron and Johr. McEwen, respectively. The largest purchaser - and in- deed the only one who bought a considerable number of lots - was Abraham Fry, who bought between ten and twenty lots at from $30 to $160 each. Among the other buyers were Joseph Mckinney, Jacob Kelley, Jesse Ruddick, James McEwen, William Beard, Charles DePauw, John Vawter, John Parker, Benjamin Irwin, Samuel Chappell, Joseph VanMeter, John Young, Isaac Le- Masters, Solomon Stout, Matthew Pace, David Dietz and others. On August 13, 1822, the County Agent was ordered to sell the rest of the town lots, except the one on which the court house stands (presumably the same as reserved at the first sale) and the sale was held on the 22d day of October, 1822. On the following November 8th, the Commissioners sold to John Farquar, then County Agent, lot No. 36 and fractional lot No. 21 for the sum of $34.
The proceeds of the sale of lots and the various financial tran- sactions of the County Agents are recorded under the head of Finance, and subsequent important actions of the Commissioners are classified and narrated under the various subjects to which the actions related. The Board of Commissioners was at the organi- zation of the county, composed of three members. The personnel of the Board was from time to time changed, but the original form
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remained as at first until September, IS24, when the Justices of the county, pursuant to an act of the Legislature, came together in a body and were ex-officio Commissioners for the transaction of the county business. When the Justices first assembled and organized they elected Joseph Hart as President of the Board. He was suc- ceeded in 1825 by Benjamin Crow, and he subsequently by Will- iam S. Jones. In September, 1830, Thomas Hinkson was chosen President, but in the following May, the county was re-districted for the purpose of electing Commissioners, and in September of that year Lewis Singleton, Hiram Wilson, and Nathan Kyle qualified as Commissioners and organizing, proceeded to the transaction of business. In 1836, the duties of County Commissioners were again assigned to the Justices of the Peace, who continued in their per- formance until 1839, when the old system was again resorted to. William Singleton was the first President chosen by the assembled Justices and he was succeeded by Moses Joiner. On February 18, 1839 they re-districted the county as follows: Ist Commis- sioners' District, comprising Haw Creek, Flat Rock, German and Nineveh townships; 2nd District, Columbus and Clifty town- ships; 3rd District, Wayne, Sand Creek, and Rock Creek town- ships.
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Finances .- The growth and development of a governmental in- stitution are nowhere better shown than in its financial history, and no subject can be of greater interest to an individual tax-payer than that which relates to the disposition of a fund to which he annually contributes. For a time after the organization of Bartholomew County there was, as a matter of fact, no pressing need for a County Treasurer. One was appointed in February, 1821, but he did not qualify until the following August. The sources of revenue were limited; at first confined to a tax on polls and personal property, and one ferry license. In 1821 the Board of Commissioners made the following levy:
On 355 male inhabitants at 50 cents each . $177 50
On 444 horses and mares at 37 1/2 cents each 165 00
On 4 stallions at the rate per season II 00
On 45 work oxen at 25 cents each. II 25
On 33 silver watches at 25 cents each 8 25
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On I gold watch at 50 cents .. 50 On 3 four wheeled pleasure carriages at $1.75 each. 3 75
On John Lindsey's ferry. 5 00
Total. $382 25
In 1823, 584 polls were taxed at 50 cents each and the rates as above were continued on personal property. In 1824, bank stock, brass clocks, licenses to vend liquor or foreign merchandise (at $10 per $1,000 worth ) lawsuits, and town lots were made subjects of taxation. By law, lands were exempt from taxation for five years after entry. In May, 1826, land sold at the first rates became subject to taxation and was assessed at 50 cents per 100 acres for first rate; 40 cents for second rate; and 30 cents for third rate. At this time the rates on gold watches and brass clocks were raised to $I, on pleasure carriages to $1.50, but silver or pinchback watches were allowed to remain at 25 cents. In 1821 and 1822, the town lots in Columbus were sold, the purchase money arising from the sale amounting to $5,865 up to October 15, 1821, and to a very small amount after that date. The business of the county was transacted principally by the County Agent. John Lindsey was the first to hold the office. He was succeeded in May, 1821, by Sam- uel Downing, who filed a $20,000 bond with John Young, William Gabbard, John Lindsey, John Parker, Joseph Mckinney and Ebe- nezer Ward as sureties. Before the year expired, John Farquar was appointed, vice Downing removed, but he died in 1823, and on October 14th of that year, his administrator turned over to James Gabbard, who had been appointed in September, $4,263.59 in notes and accounts belonging to the county. In the following November the same papers were delivered to John C. Hubbard who brought them into court and delivered them to the Commis- sioners in May, 1824. Farquar had been allowed $66, and Gab- bard $12.50 for services. In May, 1825, Hubbard was charged with $107.04, money received as agent, and various sums followed as collections could be made. In November following he reported cancelled notes, papers, receipts, etc., to the Commissioners to the amount of $279.52, leaving a balance in his own favor of $19.12. In July, 1827, he resigned, brought all his papers and documents
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