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CHAPTER 451 authorizes R. B. Lovel, late sheriff, to list his fee bill and tax receipts with the constables for collection, gives the con- stables same power in collecting as held by the sheriff, and makes them liable on their bond for such collections as shall be made.
1873-VOL. 2: CHAPTER 531 .- All taxpayers
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on any turnpike road may pay their taxes to the collectors of said road on or before the first day of November in each year; but if not so paid they shall be listed with the sheriff, and ten per cent added.
CHAPTER 532 compelled the tavern keepers to pay a license of from fifty to one hundred dollars to the trustees of the Vanceburg Male and Female Academy for the privilege of selling ardent spirits to people outside of the city limits. Said money was to be used in building the schoolhouse.
CHAPTER 555 defines the limits of the fifth ward in the city of Vanceburg.
CHAPTER 563 authorizes the court to increase the ad valorem taxes fifty cents on one hundred dollars, and appropriates the same to the pay- ment of the county debts. It also requires the county clerk to procure a book and make an entry of all the bonds issued by the county, the date and amount thereof, and the road issued to, and when due; the clerk shall furnish the sheriff, each year, the bonds due in that year, and the sheriff shall pay the bonds in the order they fall due. The additional taxation author- ized by this Act shall first be used in paying bonds hereafter issued, and the taxes so collected shall be pledged to redeem the bonds hereafter issued, and the bonds shall draw ten per cent
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interest, payable annually. The bonds here- after issued shall be used in aid of turnpike roads and bridges, and are to be paid in the order in which they fall due.
CHAPTER 589 authorizes the Cabin Creek Turnpike Company to cross Cabin Creek at. Wm. Henderson's, and requires the county to subscribe one thousand dollars to aid in build- ing the bridge.
CHAPTER 603 authorizes Lewis County to subscribe fifteen hundred dollars to the stock of the Cabin Creek, Sand Hill, and Manchester Road for the purpose of building bridges across Cabin Creek and Crooked Creek in the line of said road.
CHAPTER 619 authorizes the Lewis County Court to subscribe two thousand dollars to build bridges on the line of the Vanceburg, Salt Lick, Tollesboro, and Maysville Turnpike Road. The company was given the right to appoint an assessor, who must return his book to the County Court for revision, etc.
All laws exempting stockholders from paying taxes were repealed by this Act, and after the road should be completed the president is to be allowed fifty dollars per year as salary. The directors have their toll free during their continuance in office.
CHAPTER 673 gives the Concord Road their
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bridge grub of one thousand dollars from the county, and authorizes the company to issue bonds of said road to two thousand dollars per mile, and pledges the taxes to be collected for payment. This Act also allows the company to charge persons hauling logs with double team a double toll.
CHAPTER 866 .- An Act for the benefit of Lewis Plummer, jailer of Lewis County, pays him seventy-nine dollars out of the treasury of the State.
CHAPTER 1019 gives the Kinny Bridge on the V. Q. & Springville Pike the usual one thousand dollars from the county, but authorizes the court to appoint commissioners to put the money in the bridge.
CHAPTER 1021 is an amendment to the Vanceburg and Quick's Run Road charter, but the main point is to get three thousand dollars from the county to build a bridge across Salt Lick Creek. Said bridge is built.
CHAPTER 1056 releases R. B. Lovel from a five per cent assessment of $156.65 against him by the auditor, he having paid into the treasury the full amount of the revenue due the State from him for the year 1871.
ACTS OF 1874: CHAPTER 28 prohibits the Cabin Creek Turnpike Company from col- lecting taxes off people who have been assessed by the Concord Road Company.
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CHAPTER 119 is an Act to regulate the sale of liquor in Lewis County. It requires that no less quantity than two gallons shall be sold. It was voted on and approved by the people November, 1874.
This stopped the open sale of liquor in Vance- burg, until 1876, when a new city charter was granted admitting the sale and placing the money to the credit of the city schools. Judge Hargis, of the Criminal Court, decided that the granting of license against the expressed voice of the people at the polls was illegal and void. And this closed the bar-rooms again until an Act was passed allowing the citizens of Vance- burg to vote on the proposition of license, March 1, 1880. "For license" won by a majority of 29, and since that time the "dispensaries" have been open.
CHAPTER 143 amends the Vanceburg, Dry Run, and Kinniconnick Turnpike Road Com- pany. Changes the tax to be levied to five cents per acre on lands lying along the road, etc. (Page 178, Acts of 1873-74.)
CHAPTER 173 gives Seth Parker, Samuel Ellis, and R. B. Lovel, late sheriffs of Lewis County, two years more time to collect fee bills, etc.
CHAPTER 213 amends an Act in regard to the county levy in aid of turnpikes, makes the taxes collected under this levy subject to the pay-
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ment of the county indebtedness already in- curred, and prohibits its use otherwise. The county judge is to appoint a turnpike commis- sion under this Act, who is to inspect all roads that are reported built, or parts thereof.
CHAPTER 243 advertises sales of real estate or personal property by the sheriff, under execu- tion from the court, all notices of the sittings of Master Commissioner for settlement of the estate of deceased persons in the Vanceburg Kentuckian.
CHAPTER 282 exempts "Riverside Academy" in Vanceburg, from all city, county, and local taxes for the year 1874.
CHAPTER 380 appropriates the money for tavern license-fifty dollars for the use of the common school in the town of Concord.
CHAPTER 25 amends the charter of the Con- cord and Tollesboro Turnpike Road. It pro- hibits teamsters from "rough locking" their wagons, and requires them to use a "rub lock."
This Act also authorizes the County Court, if petitioned by the taxpayers, to levy fifty cents additional on the one hundred dollars to pay off the bonds at sixty cents on the dollar. The taxpayers probably did not petition, as the bonds were the cause of several suits, and finally the road reverted to the county for the stock it held in it.
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CHAPTER 30 makes the special taxes listed with the sheriff in favor of the Cabin Creek Turnpike Road, due and payable on the first day of February following the time of listing.
ACTS OF 1875-76: CHAPTER 45 amends an amendment to the Concord Road, makes all fines collect payable to the treasurer of the road.
CHAPTER 145 .- An Act for the benefit of Madison Thomas, appropriating three hundred dollars for the support of a lunatic.
CHAPTER 272 prohibits a greater interest than six per cent on any future bonds of the county, appropriates the taxes of thirty cents on one hundred dollars exclusively to the pay- ment of the turnpike bonds and interest; prohibits a greater levy than five cents on the one hundred dollars for bridges, except by the unanimous consent of the magistrates, but in no case to exceed ten cents. All claims are to be paid out of the county levy, unless otherwise specially provided for, the county levy to be due on the 31st day of December, of each year. Other taxes due, one-half on December 31st and one-half on April 1st. Statement of all moneys collected the previous year to be made by the county judge on June Ist and published in the county paper.
CHAPTER 692 reduces into one all the Acts
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in regard to the city of Vanceburg. This chapter leaves the boundary . the same as heretofore, lays the city off into five wards, makes the officers consist of a mayor, nine councilmen, marshal, city attorney, assessor, collector, and treasurer, city clerk, street commissioner, gauger and weigher, coal and wood inspector. The mayor and council are to be elected by the people, for one year, and the others appointed by the council.
This is the famous charter which contained the license clause-Section 22-and which was decided illegal by Judge Hargis.
It is also the charter under which the city was governed until 1891. Having been super- ceded, it is too long to copy for its worth to this volume. It can be found on page 433, Acts of 1876, Vol. 2.
CHAPTER 776 incorporates the Tollesboro Cemetery Company. The incorporators are Dr. Nesbitt Taylor, W. N. Wallingford, Isaiah Grigsby, James Barkley, Alex. M. Rummins, and Maudly Trussell.
ACTS OF 1878: CHAPTER 87 authorizes the trustees in school district No. 26 to report a four month school instead of five, and to re- ceive the money for same.
CHAPTER 435 amends the charter of Vance- burg by making the city attorney, marshal,
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street commissioner, and assessor elective offices by the qualified voters.
CHAPTER 501 authorizes the Lewis County Court to sell the "poorhouse farm," and to buy other property. This Act was approved March 16, 1878, and under it the poorhouse was re- moved to Kinniconnick.
CHAPTER 558 .- An Act to incorporate "The Woodland Cemetery Association," of Vance- burg, in Lewis County.
The incorporators are H. C. Bruce, S. Rug- gles, L. B. Baird, T. B. Harrison, T. B. Strick- lett, J. W. Darrow, James R. Pugh, John C. Ingrim, T. W. Mitchell, and W. C. Halbert, Jr.
The beautiful cemetery on the hill above Vanceburg is the result of this Act.
CHAPTER 760 .- Be it enacted, that the turn- pike laws of Lewis County be so amended as to require all persons holding evidences of indebt- edness against the Cabin Creek, Sand Hill, and Manchester Turnpike Road Company be re- quired to produce such evidences of indebted- ness to the County Court of Lewis County, on three months' notice, to be given by the county judge of said county, by posting a written notice on the front door of the court-house of Lewis County, and by publishing said notice in the Vanceburg Courier and Maysville Bulletin for at least three months.
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Said evidences of indebtedness, when pro- duced, shall be registered upon the record book of said court, and any person failing to produce any evidences of indebtedness as above, shall forfeit their right to any interest they now be entitled to receive on said evidences of in- debtedness.
SEC. 2 .- This Act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage.
This Act was never advertised, as it requires. Perhaps it was un-Constitutional in that it aimed to vitiate a contract.
CHAPTER 763 is an Act to amend the charter of the Cabin Creek, Sand Hill, and Manchester Road. It reduces the officers from five to two.
CHAPTER 929 .- An Act appropriating five hundred dollars to W. T. Warder, sheriff, and to the family of John Ruggles for the capture of Jesse Underwood. We give a full account of this in another chapter.
CHAPTER 962 authorizes the State treasurer to pay H. T. Warder, sheriff of Lewis County, $37.50 on account of payment made by him to Edward Stone, committee of Laural Stone, a pauper idiot.
CHAPTER 1031 changes the time of holding the Criminal Court. In Lewis County it is to be the fourth Monday in June and third Monday in November in each year.
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ACTS OF 1879: Makes W. R. Hull, John McCormick, James Thomas, Isaiah Grigsby, J. Win Parker, S. G. Hillis, Geo. W. Davis, S. D. Gardner, M. W. Wallingford, and all other persons who may hereafter hold policies in this corporation, in the manner herein prescribed, be, and are hereby incorporated, etc.
This was a mutual, pro rata assessment company, and, of course, went to the wall after a few barns were burned and assessments made.
CHAPTER 150 gives the County Court power to grant tavern license to sell ardent spirits in the city of Vanceburg.
CHAPTER 202 gives the taxpayers on the C. & T. Turnpike Road until the first of De- cember to pay their tax.
CHAPTER 422 authorizes the Court of Claims in Lewis County to levy an ad valorem tax of ten cents on one hundred dollars worth of property for county purposes, and to raise the levy of poll tax to two dollars.
CHAPTER 605 permits persons whose lands have been sold for taxes due the Vanceburg, Dry Run, and Kinniconnick Turnpike Road to redeem same within twelve months from date of sale, by the party paying to the purchaser the amount of purchase money and ten per cent interest on the same.
CHAPTER 711 appropriates thirty-four dollars
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to T. B. Bullock, late deputy sheriff of Lewis County. The Act does not say what the ap- propriation was for.
CHAPTER 775 repeals part of an Act in re- gard to selling liquors in Lewis County-in- sofar as it refers to the town of Concord. The Act requires the trustees to take a vote as to . whether the citizens want liquor sold; and, if they do, then the vendor is to pay fifty dollars license fee to go into the school fund.
CHAPTER 781 .- Amendment to the city charter of Vanceburg. Allows the officer to take out his fees from any fine paid first, and the remainder to be credited to the fine imposed.
CHAPTER 792 authorizes the trustees of the Vanceburg Common School District to issue bonds to finish the schoolhouse begun by the Vanceburg Male and Female Academy. Also a tax of fifty cents on the one hundred dollars worth of realty, beginning with the year 1880, and to continue till the house is paid for. The bonds were to be signed by the county clerk, and taxes to be paid out by him-some more lame legislation.
CHAPTER 930 .- An Act for the benefit of J. W. Parker, or rather of school district No. 30, whose trustees had failed to list forty-two pupils. The Act directs the auditor to pay said Parker, as teacher, $81.06.
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CHAPTER 1168 amends Sec. 22 of the Vance- burg City Charter, by substituting "Common School Commissioner" for "Treasurer." This is in regard to tavern license fees to sell whisky in Vanceburg.
CHAPTER 1174 .- An Act for the benefit of H. T. Warder, sheriff, allowing him to list his fee bills with the officers.
CHAPTER 1188 gives justices of the peace jurisdiction in all cases where the matter in controversy, exclusive of interests and costs, does not exceed one hundred dollars.
CHAPTER 1292 relates to advertising by master commissioners and sheriffs, and fixes the times and rates therefor.
CHAPTER 1294 fixes a fine for "dead locking" and injuring the Vanceburg, Dry Run, and Kinny Turnpike.
CHAPTER 1304 authorizes Lewis County to construct a bridge across Salt Lick Creek on the line of the Vanceburg, Salt Lick, and Tolles- boro Turnpike Road, at the Caine's farm; issue bonds, more taxes, ten cents on the one hundred dollars, and the county to have stock to the amount invested in the bridge.
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ACTS OF 1881: CHAPTER 123 makes the Laurel Fork of Kinny a "navigable stream" below the mouth of Grassy.
CHAPTER 781 incorporates the "Kinnicon-
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nick Creek Turnpike Road Company," with L. A. Muleer, Wm. Hardy, Jonathan Easham, Samuel McEldowney, Joseph D. Rredden as the incorporators. This Act repeals that part of the Vanceburg, Dry Run, and Kinny Road as should cover the same ground as this charter.
CHAPTER 791 .- This is the Act which finally transferred the Male and Female Academy to the trustees of the common school, in Vanceburg. The "whereas" shows that, beside paying for the lot, the building cost about seven thousand dollars. Being still in debt, at the passage of the Act, in the sum of six thousand dollars, the trustees were authorized to levy a tax of one dollar on each one hundred dollars worth of property subject to taxation for State revenue, lying in the district, and to continue said tax till the debt was paid. The school is to be free to all children at least five months each year, and is to receive the public school money, to- gether with fines and liquor license fees, etc.
The trustees have power to have a higher grade school taught after the five months' free school, and to regulate the attendance, tuition, and course of study therein. The name and title of the school is the "Vanceburg Public School and Seminary." They also have the right to select teachers, same as the common school trustees of other districts.
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CHAPTER 874 is the charter of the Vance- burg and Concord Turnpike Road Company. The incorporators are L. B. Baird, John Moore, John Monteith, Thos. J. Bruce, F. M. Carr, Lewis B. Ruggles, and L. A. Grimes. This road is to run from Vanceburg, down the Ohio River, to Concord. Two and one-half miles of it have recently been built, from Vanceburg to Quick's Run Creek.
CHAPTER 900 is the incorporation of "River- side Male and Female Seminary," at Vance- burg, Ky. The principal, H. K. Taylor, and trustees, Samuel J. Pugh, A. H. Parker, H. C. Bruce, L. B. Piersal, T. B. Harrison, Dr. J. M. Wells, A. L. Mckay, and F. M. Taylor, are mentioned in the Act. The institution has the right to confer degrees of "Maid of Science," "Bachelor of Science," "Maid of Arts," "Bach- elor of Arts," and further honorary degree for a three years' course in literature.
CHAPTER 1217 incorporates the Vanceburg, Quincy, and Springville Turnpike Company. Geo. T. Halbert, Isaac Voiers, A. P. Frizzell, Leonidas Darragh, A. I. Yancy, A. F. Moore, W. W. Agnew, and B. F. Branham were men- tioned as incorporators.
CHAPTER 1332 amends the Vanceburg city charter. Gives the treasurer only three months
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after his successor is qualified to make complete settlement with the city.
CHAPTER 863 is the charter of the Tolesboro and Mt. Carmel Turnpike Road Company. A. D. Pollitt, Isaiah Grigsby, J. Win Parker, A. H. Pollitt, James Thomas, G. W. Reader are appointed commissioners to open books, etc.
CHAPTER 1149 .- J. Win Parker, R. W. Pol- litt, and G. P. Bane, and their successors be, and are hereby incorporated, under the name and style of Robert M. Owens Lodge, No. 588, of Free and Accepted Masons. This lodge has built a neat house at Tollesboro.
CHAPTER 1271 incorporates the Tollesboro and Esculapia Road. James Toncray, Jackson Teager, Thos. Ruggles, Hiram Warder, James Hull, and William Jones are the incorporated board of directors.
CHAPTER 836 is an act to establish a road law in Lewis County, but we think it has been superseded by another General Statute law, and is, therefore, unimportant.
CHAPTER 840 is the incorporation and charter of Poplar Flat and Indian Run Turnpike Road Company. Thompson Henderson, Horace Ap- plegate, George Herron, Moses Ruggles, Aaron Hamlin were constituted a board to act until the first election.
This road has been built.
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CHAPTER 1197 amends the Act authorizing the sale of the poorhouse farm. This Act re- quires the court to levy and collect taxes authorized in the former Act, before the farm is bought, so as to have the money ready.
CHAPTER 1165 .- An Act for the benefit of John F. Pollitt. It authorizes the payment of $28.95 out of the school fund belonging to Lewis County.
CHAPTER 992 .- Because S. H. Parker, as- sessor of Lewis County, had his book and blotter destroyed by fire on the 7th day of February, 1882, and thereby lost over five hundred lists, he is allowed thirty days additional time to make up his book to be returned to the auditor, and is allowed fifty dollars additional pay for the extra service in remaking the book.
CHAPTER 1320 .- The Court of Claims of Lewis County is by this Act authorized to levy ten cents tax on the one hundred dollars to build a bridge across Kinny, at the upper Blankenship Ford. The bridge is built.
ACTS OF 1883-84: CHAPTER 6 .- An Act in relation to a bridge over Salt Lick Creek at Vanceburg. Authorizes a tax and bonds for the purpose.
CHAPTER 56 incorporates St. Mary's Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons, at Concord. R. M. Owens, S. G. Hillis, L. A. Grimes,
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B. T. Wells, and John Freeman are the incor- porators.
CHAPTER 56 enacts that John D. Tully, Amos Means, Mandley Trussell, and J. W. Tully be created a body politic and corporate, by the name of "The Ebenezer Cemetery As- sociation, of Lewis County."
CHAPTER 60 enacts that John M. Myers, Benjamin Biven, S. G. Hillis, James H. Barkley, and the present trustees of East Fork Christian Church be, and are, created a body politic and corporate under the name of "The East Fork Cemetery Association."
CHAPTER 59 enacts that B. T. Wells, S. G. Hillis, L. A. Grimes, W. Traber, Jas. H. Gar- rett, William Sparks, and J. T. Hines be, and are, created a body politic and corporate by the name of "The Concord Lodge, No. 260, I. O. O. F.
CHAPTER 156 .- An Act for the benefit of J. Win Parker. Gives him $81.06 as teacher, and repeals a former Act for the same purpose.
CHAPTER 248 establishes the Vanceburg Deposit Bank, and appoints Geo. M. Thomas, Socrates Ruggles, Wm. M. Bireley, A. H. Parker, and W. C. Halbert commissioners to open books and receive subscriptions to the capital stock of said bank, which is $25,000. The stock was subscribed, and the bank
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established, and is in good condition and all O. K.
CHAPTER 448, for the benefit of Mrs. J. K. Carr, appropriates $35.75 to finish paying her as teacher, in district No. 14, because the trustees failed to properly take the census.
CHAPTER 541 amends the Act incorporating the Tollesboro and Mt. Carmel Turnpike by extending the time to take subscriptions to July, 1884.
CHAPTER 584 amends the Vanceburg and Quincy Turnpike by making said road begin in the center of the bridge in Slate Creek. And, it seems, it also ends there.
CHAPTER 558 amends the Mason and Lewis Turnpike Company by allowing a branch road to be built from Beech Lick, via Mrs. R. H. Lee's, Mrs. Man Davis', and to Farrow's mills. Lewis County to take one thousand dollars per mile stock.
CHAPTER 477 amends the Cabin Creek, Sand Hill, and Manchester Road; allows a branch road up East Fork to the C. & T. Road, near Salem Church. The road has been built.
CHAPTER 624 .- Another "oversight"in the trustees in district No. 2 causes this Act to be passed by the Legislature in order to secure $44.33 to the district.
CHAPTER 709 amends the charter to the city
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of Vanceburg; first, by making the marshal perform the duty of street commissioner, and secondly, making a "qualified voter" in said city only those who had paid the poll tax.
CHAPTER 750 incorporates the Poplar Flat, Indian Run, and Salt Lick Turnpike Road Company. Geo. W. Hevin, Alex. Harrison, Horace Applegate, W. K. Hampton, Thompson Henderson, and A. J. Hendrickson are the in- corporators. The road is built.
CHAPTER 858 releases J. W. McNeal from State and county taxes on account of his being a paralytic.
CHAPTER 1052 gives the Vanceburg public school trustees to issue more bonds and levy taxes to protect the school property on the river front.
CHAPTER 1421 amends the Tollesboro and Esculapia Road charter by authorizing a county subscription of one thousand dollars to the mile when the road is let to contractors and one mile is made. Books were to be opened prior to September 1, 1884. Said road has never been let.
CHAPTER 1577 levies a tax of twenty-five cents on the one hundred dollars worth of all taxable property in V. S. L. T. & M. Road district, for the purpose of building approaches to the bridge at Caine's farm, on Salt Lick Creek.
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ACTS OF 1885-86: CHAPTER 28 repeals an Act of May, 1884, in regard to levying a tax on the people along the line of the V. S. L. T. & M. Road, to build approaches to a bridge.
CHAPTER 149 authorizes the County Court to build a bridge across Kinny, near the mouth of Trace, and to issue bonds and levy a tax to pay the same.
CHAPTER 282 authorizes the Lewis County Court to appropriate out of the bridge fund, and pay to the officers of Cabin Creek, Sand Hill, and Manchester Road Company, the sum of one thousand dollars for the purpose of erecting two bridges on said road.
CHAPTER 291 authorizes the Poplar Flat, Indian Run, and Salt Lick Road Company to elect officers as soon as two hundred dollars is subscribed.
CHAPTER 433 incorporates the Esculapia Springs Company. W. F. Jones, W. W. Bean, A. R. Mullins, J. W. Baldridge, John Gates, B. A. Wallingford, Geo. T. Hunter, Joseph Power, Harvey Parker are the incorporators. Busted !
CHAPTER 438 directs the judge of Lewis County Court to issue bonds of the county in the sum of six thousand dollars, and subscribe same to the stock of the Maysville and Big Sandy Railroad Company, said bond to be
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