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(Signed) EUGENE S. WHITING, FRED W. NORTHUP, SYLVESTER SMITH, Selectmen of Plainville. (Seal).
OFFICER'S RETURN ON WARRANT.
Plainville, Mass., Jan. 21, 1915.
This certifies that I have served the foregoing warrant by posting attested copies of the same in (10) ten public places in said Town of Plainville.
(Signed) E. WRIGHT SARGENT, Constable of Plainville.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Norfolk, Ss.
Then personally appeared the above named E. Wright Sargent, Constable, and made oath that the above state- ment by him subscribed is true, before me,
THEODORE E. A. FULLER, Justice of the Peace and Town Clerk.
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RECORD OF SPECIAL TOWN MEETING.
January 22, 1915.
A Special Town Meeting was held in Town all, Jan- uary 22, 1915. Meeting called to order at 8 o'clock P. M. by the Town Clerk, reading the warrant and return thereon.
Article 1. On motion of H. F. Keeney, it was unani- mously voted that O. P. Brown cast one ballot contain- ing the name of James H. Shannon for Moderator.
The ballot was cast and Mr. Shannon declared elect- ed.
Art. 2. On motion of W. T. Barden it was unanimously voted, "That the Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen be and hereby is authorized to refund all or any portion of the loan issued in anticipation of the rev- enue of the financial year 1914 and falling due January 20, 1915, as provided by Section 9 of Chapter 719 of the Act sof 1913 as amended, any loan or loans issued under authority of this vote to be paid from the revenue of the financial year 1914, any loan issued under authority of this vote to be paid at a date not later than August 20, 1915.
Art. 3. On motion by W. E. Barden it was unani- mously voted, "That the Town Treasurer, with the ap- proval of the Selectmen, be and hereby is authorized to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1915, and to issue a note or notes therefor, payable within one year, any debt or debts incurred under this not to be paid from the revenue of said financial year.
Art. 4. Secretary of Financial Committee, J. J. Eiden, recommend this sum be granted.
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Mr. Barden explaining this being the expense incurred the suit of Plainville Land Company against the Town of Plainville.
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On motion by S. Smith, it was voted to raise and ap- propriate the sum of One Thousand ($1000) Dollars for current and incidental expenses for current financial year.
Voted to adjourn at 8:27 o'clock P. M.
A true copy, attest :
THEODORE E. A. FULLER, Town Clerk.
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WARRANT FOR TENTH ANNUAL TOWN MEET- ING.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Norfolk, Ss.
To E. Wright Sargent or either of the Constables of the Town of Plainville :
Greeting :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabit- ants of the Town of Plainville, qualified to vote in Town affairs to meet in the Town Hall, in said Plainville, on Monday, the first day of March, A. D. 1915, at nine o'clock, in the forenoon, then and there to act on the following articles, viz :
Article 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting.
Article 2. To consider and act on the reports of the Selectmen, Treasurer and other Town Officers.
Art. 3. To choose all necessary Town officers. The following are to be chosen by ballot, viz: Three Select- men, three Overseers of the Poor, one Assessor for three years, one Treasurer, one Clerk, one Trustee of the Public Library for three years, one Auditor, one Collector of Taxes, one Water Commissioner for three years, one Tree Warden, one member of the School Committee for three years, three Constables and also on the same ballot to vote upon the questions, "Shall license be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this Town?" also to vote "Yes" or "No" on the question, "Shall Chapter 807, of the Acts of 1913, being an Act to provide for compen- sating laborers, workmen and mechanics for injuries sus- tained in public employment, and to exempt from legal liability counties and municipal corporations which pay
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such compensations, be accepted by the inhabitants of this Town ?" All officers except as above named are to be chosen for one year.
The polls will be open at 9:30 o'clock A. M. and may be closed at 2 P. M.
Art. 4. To see how much money the Town will vote to appropriate and raise for :-
1. For the support of schools for the current year.
2. For school books and supplies.
3. For school incidentals.
4. For the employment of a Superintendent of schools.
5. For the employment of a School Physician.
6. For the support of the Public Library.
7. For the payment of salaries of the different Town officers.
8. For current and incidental expenses for the cur- rent year.
9. For the support of the Poor and Soldiers' Relief the current year.
10. For highways and bridges the current year and determine how the same shall be expended.
11. For State and Military Aid the current year.
12. For Memorial Day.
13. For payment of interest the current year.
14. For the Fire Department the current year.
15. For lighting the streets the current year.
16. For Water Department, incidentals and pump- ing.
17. For sidewalks.
Art. 5. To see if the Town will grant the use of the Town Hall free of charge to :
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1. George H. Maintein Post 33, G. A. R., three days.
2. Plainville Fire Department, four evenings.
3. The Alumni Association, two evenings.
4. Plainville Grange, one evening, the current year.
Art. 6. To see if the Town will vote to apprporiate and raise the sum of ($100.00) for the apprehension of hen thieves, and place such sum in the hands of the Se- lectmen to be used at their discretion.
Art. 7. To see how much money the Town will vote to appropriate and raise for the suppression of the sale of intoxicating liquors and for the apprehension and prosecution of offenders against the law, relating to the illegal keeping, and sale of such liquors, and instruct the Selectmen to employ efficient agents, and counsel to prosecute such offenders.
Art. 8. To see if the Town will authorize the Treas- urer with the approval of the Selectmen to borrow money after January 1, 1916, in anticipation of the rev- enue of 1916.
Art. 9. To see what action the Town will take in re- gard to the collection of taxes the current year, fix the compensation of the Collector, and determine the rate of interest to be charged on taxes remaining unpaid after November 1, 1915.
Art. 10. To see if the Town will vote to have the surety of the Collector of Taxes or other Town Officers' bonds, placed with a Fidelity or Guarantee Company, and appropriate a sufficient sum of money to pay for the same.
Art. 11. To see if the Town will authorize the Col- lector of Taxes, to use all the means of collecting taxes a Town Treasurer may use when appointed Collector.
Art. 12. To choose any committee, hear the report of any committee and act thereon.
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Art. 13. To see if the Town will vote to release Bondsman on Bond for the South Street water exten- sion to a ten ($10.00) dollar rate. (Petition.)
Art. 14. To see if the Town will instruct the Water Commissioners to make a five year contract for pumping water with the Plainville Factory Trust Co., provided that said contract can be made satisfactory to the Com- missioners.
Art. 15. To see what action the Town will take, if any, with regard to the planting of shade trees and ap- propriate at least ($150.00) for this purpose, in order that the Town might enter the shade Tree Planting con- test, conducted by the Massachusetts Forestry Associa- tion.
(Petition.)
Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk, in con- formity to public statutes, at or before the time of said meeting.
Given under our hands and seal of the Town of Plain- ville this eleventh day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fifteen.
(Signed)
(Sea1)
EUGENE S. WHITING, FRED W. NORTHUP, SYLVESTER SMITH, Selectmen of Plainville.
OFFICER'S RETURN ON WARRANT.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. Norfolk, Ss.
Plainville, Feb. 27, 1915.
This is to certify that I have served the above warrant
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by posting twelve (12) attested copies in as many places in said Town of Plainville.
(Signed) E. WRIGHT SARGENT, Constable.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Norfolk, Ss.
Plainville, Feb. 27, 1915.
Then personally appeared the above named E. Wright Sargent and made oath that the above statement by him subscribed is true, before me,
THEODORE E. A. FULLER. Justice of the Peace and Town Clerk.
PROCEEDINGS OF TENTH ANNUAL TOWN MEETING.
Town Hall, Plainville, Mass., March 1, 1915.
Pursuant to the foregoing warrant, the inhabitants of the Town of Plainville, qualified to vote at elections in town affairs assembled at Town Hall on South Street in said town, on the first Monday of March, it being the first day of said month, A. D. 1915, at 9 o'clock A. M.
The meeting was called to order at the time and place mentioned in said warrant by the Town Clerk reading the warrant and officer's return thereon.
Article 1. Voted O. P. Brown cast one ballot con- taning name of Hosmer F. Keeney for Moderator.
The ballot was cast and Mr. Kenney declared elected.
Oliver P. Brown on invitation of the Moderator offer- ed a brief prayer.
Art, 2. After noting a few printer's errors it was
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voted to accept the reports of Selectmen and other Town officers.
Art. 3. Officers not required to be chosen by ballot were elected as follows, viz :
Fence Viewers-Henry W. Bliss, Charles N. Moore.
Field Drivers-Nathaniel C. Grant, E. Wright Sar- gent.
Measurers of Wood, Lumber and Bark-Edward C. Barney, Sylvester Smith, George B. Greenlay.
Before the opening of the polls the ballot Clerks and Tellers were duly sworn by the Town Clerk.
Before the opening of the polls, the Town Clerk deliv- ered to the Moderator a package containing 420 official ballots and 60 special ballots for school committee only, and took his receipt therefor.
The Town Clerk caused cards of instructions to be posted in each of the marking shelves or compartments, provided by the Selectmen, the cards of instruction and specimen ballots were posted outside the guard rail, as required by law.
The ballot box used at the election was publicly open- ed and was examined by the Moderator, Town Clerk and Special Officer Herman S. J. Loud found it to be empty, then locked and the keys thereof given to the special officer, H. S. J. Loud, after which the polls were de- clared open at 9:30 o'clock A. M. When the ballots were delivered to the voters by the ballot clerks, the check list was used and the name of each voter receiving a bollot was announced and checked thereon by the ballot clerks.
The ballot delivered to such voter was by him marked in one of the voting compartments aforesaid and there- after deposited by such voter in said ballot box after his name had first been publicly announced at said box, and
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duly checked upon the voting list, by the election officers in charge of said box and list.
The Moderator and Town Clerk had charge of the election, also the ballot box, and check lists used with same were under their care.
It was now voted that a committee of three be ap- pointed to bring in nominations, later, for Advisory or Financial Committee. Committee: Oliver P. Brown, William H. Nash, and Edward Burton.
Article 4 was now taken up. Mr. J. J. Eiden, clerk of the Advisory Committee, stated that the Committee had carefully considered all articles carrying an appropria- tion and would recommend as each article was acted upon.
Section 1. Advisory Committee recommended $65 25, plus dog tax, and interest, on Town School Fund note.
Voted, that the sum of six thousand, five hundred and twenty-five ($6525) dollars be raised and appropriated for the support of schools the current year and in addi- tion thereto, the dog tax and interest on Town School Fund note.
Sec. 2. Advisory Committee recommended $600.
Voted that the sum of $600 be raised and appropriated for school books and supplies the current year.
Sec. 3. Committee recommended $450.
Voted the sum of $450 be raised and appropriated for school incidentals the current year
Sec. 4. Committee recommended $360.
Voted that the sum of $360 be raised and appropriated for the employment of a Superintendent of schools.
Sec. 5. Committee recommended $50.
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Voted that the sum of $50 be raised and appropriated for the employment of a School Physician.
Sec. 3 was again taken up.
Voted that the sum of $200 additional be appropriated for school incidentals and that this sum be used for in- dustrial work in the schools.
Sec. 6. Committee recommended $400.
Voted that the sum of $400 be raised and appropriated for the support of the Public Library the current year, and in addition thereto the receipts from Library.
Sec. 7. Committee recommended $1275.
Voted that the sum of $1275 be appropriated for sal- aries of the different town officers the current year.
. Sec. 8. Committee recommended $1600.
Voted that an additional sum of $1600 be raised and appropriated for current and incidental expenses the cur- rent year, and in addition thereto, the receipts and the receipts from the Town Hall.
Sec. 9. Financial committee recommended $1300. plus receipts.
Voted that the sum of $1300, plus receipts, be raised and appropriated for support of poor and Soldiers' Re- lief the current year.
Sec. 10. Committee recommended $1200.
Voted that the sum of $1200 be raised and appropri- ated for highways and bridges the current year, and that this sum be placed in the hands of the Selectmen.
Sec. 11. Committee recommended $432.
Voted that the sum of $375 be raised and appropriated
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for State and Military Aid the current year.
Sec. 12. Committee recommended $75.
Voted that the sum of $75 be raised and appropriated for Memorial Day the current year, this sum to be placed in the hands of the Quartermaster of Geo. H. Maintain P. 133,, G. A. R.
Sec. 13. Committee recommended $2000.
Voted that the sum of $2000 be raised and appropriated for payment of interest the current year .
Sec. 14. Committee recommended $300.
Voted that the sum of $300 be raised and appropriated for the Fire Department the current year.
Sec. 15. Committee recommended $1287.
Voted that the sum of $1287 be raised and appropri- ated for lighting the streets the current year. The Se- lectmen to be instructed to confer with the lighting com- pany regarding lower figures, by omitting lights on moonlight nights.
Sec. 16. Committee recommended $1000 for pumping and $500, plus receipts, for incidentals.
Voted that the sum of $900 be raised and appropriated for pumping water the current year. Moved that the sum of $500, plus receipts, be raised and appropriated for water incidentals the current year. Moderator de- clared motion lost. Upon this decision being doubted, he called for a rising vote, 17 voting in the affirmative, 33 in the negative. Motion again declared lost.
Voted that the sum of $400, plus receipts, be raised and appropriated for water incidentals the current year.
Sec. 17. Motion made this Article be indefinitely postponed. Moderator declared motion lost. Upon his
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decision being doubted, he called for a rising vote, when 36 voted in affirmative, 16 in negative. Voted toindefi- nitely postpone.
Art. 6. Moved that the sum of $100 be appropriated for the apprehension of hen thieves and that this sum be placed in the hands of the selectmen. Motion lost.
Art. 7. Financial Committee recommended $100.
Moved that the suni of $100 be appropriated for the suppression of the sale of intoxicating liquors, and for the apprehension and prosecution of offenders against the law, relating to the illegal keeping and sale of such liquors, and to instruct the Selectmen to employ agents and counsel to prosecute such offenders.
Voted this motion be laid on the table.
Voted Art. 7 be laid on the table.
There being no objection, Art. 15 was now taken up. Voted Art. 7 be indefinitely postponed.
Voted a recess be now taken until 1:15 o'clock P. M Meeting reopened at 1:15 o'clock P. M.
Voted that the polls be closed at 3 o'clock P. M. and that the tellers now proceed to count the ballots, there being 204 names checked on lists and ballot box regis- ter indicating 204.
Art. 5. Voted that the request of the organizations named in the article be granted.
Art. 8. Voted that the Town Treasurer, with the ap- proval of the Selectmen, be and hereby is authorized to borrow money from time to time, in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year beginning Jan. 1, 1916, and to issue a note or notes therefor, payable within one year, any debt or debts incurred under this note to be paid from the revenue of said financial year.
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Art. 9. Voted that the salary of the Collector of Taxes be $100, and that this sum be raised and paid from the salary appropriation.
Chap. 688, Acts of 1914, were now read by Oliver P. Brown.
[Chap. 688.]
An Act to Facilitate the Prompt Payment of Taxes.
Be it enacted, etc., as follows :
Section 1. Part I of chapter four hundred and ninety of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and nine is here- by amended by striking out section seventy-one and in- serting in place thereof the following :- Section 71. Taxes shall be payable in every city and town and in every fire, water, watch and improvement district in which the same are assessed, not later than the fifteenth day of October of each year, and on all taxes so assessed remaining unpaid after the first day of November inter- est shall be paid at the rate of six per cent. per annum from the fifteenth day of October until such taxes are paid ; but a city, town, fire, water, watch or improvement district may by vote, ordinance or by-law charge interest from an earlier date, and such interest shall be added to and be a part of the taxes.
Sec. 2. On all taxes of previous years remaining un- paid on the first day of January, nineteen hundred and fourteen, interest shall be charged at the rate of six per cent per annum until they are paid.
Sec. 3. Cities and towns shall not allow any discount to persons or corporations making payment of their taxes.
Sec. 4. If taxes assessed after this act takes effect re- main unpaid for fourteen days after demand therefor, the collector shall, within one year after the first day of
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October in the year of the assessment, levy the tax, to- gether with all incidental charges and fees, in the man- ner provided by law.
Sec. 5. Section seventy of Part I of chapter four hun- dred and ninety of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and nine, and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent here- with, are hereby repealed.
Section 6. This act shall take effect on the first day of January, nineteen hundred and fifteen. [Approved May 20, 1913.
Art. 10. Voted that the Town have the surety of the Collector and other Town Officers' bonds placed with a Fidelity or Guarantee company, and the expenses of so- doing be taken from the current and incidental account.
Art. 11. Voted that the Collector of Taxes be so au- thorized.
Art. 12. The committee on nominations for Advisory or Financial Committee made the following nomina- tions, according to the Town by-law: Chairman of the Selectmen, Town Treasurer, John J. Eiden, William E. Blanchard, Nathaniel E. Grant, George B. Greenleaf, Jo- seph F. Breen.
Voted these men be elected as Financial or Advisory Committee for the ensuing year.
Art. 13. Voted this article be indefinitely postponed.
Art. 14. Motion that the Water Commissioners be so instructed, i. e., to make a five-year contract for pump- ing water with the Plainville Factory Trust Company, provided that said contract can be made satisfactory to the Commissioners. Upon an amendment being offered that the word "instructed" be changed to "authorized," it was voted as amended.
At 4 o'clock P. M. it was voted to close the polls.
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The register on the ballot box indicated 227 votes cast therein. Upon complete count of all the ballots cast therein it was found that there were 227 cast into said . box and cancelled thereby, there being 223 male and 4 female votes cast.
The check lists used, each showed 227 names checked thereon. The ballots were canvassed according to law.
After the completion of the canvass of all the votes cast, and the whole number duly counted and recorded, declaration thereof was made as required by law in open town meeting as follows, viz .:
Town Clerk for one year.
Theodore E. A. Fuller (nom. paper) . 212
Blanks 11
Town Treasurer for one year.
Walter E. Barden (nom. paper) 205
Blanks
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Selectmen for one year.
Fred W. Northup (nom. paper) . 154
Sylvester Smith (nom. paper). 176
Earl B. Thompson (nom. paper) 172
George W. Wood nom. paper). 82
Blanks
85
Overseer of the Poor for one year.
Fred W. Northup (nom. paper) 178
Sylvester Smith (nom. paper). 193
Earl B. Thompson (nom. paper) 184
George WV. Wood. 10
Blanks
104
School Committee for three years.
Oliver P. Brown (nom. paper). 73
Percy E. Fisher (nom. paper) . 24
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Willis M. Fuller (nom. paper) 108
Blanks 22
Assessor for three years.
William E. Blanchard (nom. paper) 195
Blanks
28
Water Commissioners for three years.
William H. Nash (nom. paper) 132
Edwin W. Pink (nom. paper) 82
Blanks
9
Trustee of Public Library for Three Years.
Fred W. Northup (nom. paper) 190
Blanks 33
Tax Collector for one year.
Oliver P. Brown (nom. paper) 198
Blanks
25
Auditor for one year.
Frank E. Whiting (nom. paper) 192
John J. Eiden 1
Blanks
30
Tree Warden for one year.
Harley E. Thompson -nom. paper) 195
Blanks
28
Constable for one year.
Perry M. Cook (nom. paper) 193
James F. Crotty. (nom. paper) 191
E. Wright Sargent (nom. paper) 179 Joe Sharpe 1
Blanks 105
"Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating
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liquors in this town?"
Yes 49
No 155
Blanks 19
"Shall Chapter 807 of the Acts of 1913, being an act to provide for compensating laborers, workmen, mechan- ics, for injuries sustained in public employment, and to exempt from legal liability counties and municipal cor- ยท porations, which pay such compensations, be accepted by the inhabitants of this Town?"
Yes 92
No 49
Blanks 82
THEODORE E. A. FULLER,
Town Clerk.
Appointment Assistant Town Clerk.
Plainville, Mass., March 25, 1915.
To Frank E. Whiting of said Plainville :
Sir: By virtue of the authority in me vested, I do hereby appoint you Assistant Town Clerk of said Plain- . ville, with all powers, duties and authority appertaining to said office.
With full power of revocation.
THEODORE E. A. FULLER, Town Clerk.
Election Member School Committee.
Plainville, Mass., March 23, 1915.
At a joint meeting of the Selectmen and School Com- mittee, as provided for by Section 439, Chapter 835, Acts of 1913, John J. Eiden, Spring street, was duly elected a
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member of the School Committee to fill vacancy caused by resignation of Rufus King.
THEODORE E. A. FULLER,
Town Clerk.
Warrant State Primary Election, Sept. 21, 1915.
THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. Norfolk, ss. :
To either of the Constables of the Town of Plainville : Greeting :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabi- tants of said town who are qualified to vote in Primaries to meet in the Town Hall, Tuesday, the twenty-first day of September, 1915, at 12:15 o'clock P. M., for the fol- lowing purposes :
To bring in their votes to the Primary Officers for the nomination of Candidates of Political Parties for the fol- lowing officers :
Governor for this Commonwealth.
Lieutenant Governor for this Commonwealth.
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Treasurer and Receiver General
Auditor of the Commonwealth.
Attorney General
Councillor for 2nd Councillor District.
Senator for 2nd Senatorial District.
One Representative in General Court for 12th Repre sentative District.
County Commissioner for Norfolk County.
County Treasurer for Norfolk County.
Sheriff for Norfolk County.
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And for the election of the following officers :
District member of State Committee for each political party for the 2nd Senatorial District.
Members of the Democratic Town Committee.
Members of the Republican Town Committee.
Members of the Progressive Party Town Committee. Delegates to State Conventions of Political Parties.
All the above candidates and officers are to be voted for upon one ballot.
The polls will be open from 12:30 P. M. to 8 P. M.
And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting attested copies thereof seven days at least before the time of said meeting, as directed by vote of the town.
Hereof fail not and make return of this warrant with your doings thereon at the time and place of said meet- ing.
Given under our hands this 25th day of September, A. D.1915.
Signed, FRED W. NORTHUP, SYLVESTER SMITH, EARL B. THOMPSON, Selectmen of Plainville. (Seal.)
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