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1. For the support of the Public Library. 600. 2860.00
2. For the Selectmen's current expenses and salaries.
3. For the Treasurer's current expenses and salary.
4. For the Town Clerk's current expenses and salary.
800000 475.00 1500.00
5. For the Assessor's current expenses and salaries. 850.00
6. For the Tax Collector's current expenses and salary.
7. For the Board of Registrar's current expenses and salaries. 788.00 75.00
8. For the salary of Town Auditor.
9. For Sealer of Weights and Measurers' current ex- penses and salary.
10. For the payment of Insurance.
11. For Welfare.
12. Aid Dependent Children.
13. For Old Age Assistance.
14. For Veterans' Benefits.
15. For Highways and Bridges, center of Town.
16. For Memorial Day.
17. For Interest on Temporary Loans and Maturing Debt. 200.50
18. For Fire Department for current expenses and salaries.
19. For Street Lights.
20. For Water Department incidentals, pumping and salaries.
21. For Board of Health current expenses and salaries. 170000 22. For Police Department, including Street Patrol. 370000 300.00 23. For Tree Warden. 1500.0 900.0
24. For Removal of Snow.
25. For Park Commissioners.
75.00 2000. 2300. 300.00 15000.00 50000 4000.00 200. 00
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4'800.00 7530.00
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26. For Support of School and salaries of School Com- mittee. 53.946.00 75.00
27. Town Forest Committee.
28. For heating and maintenance of Fire Station and Town Office Building. 1000.00
29. For maturing debt. 2000.00
30. For Welfare Agent. 800.00
Article 8. To see if the Town will vote to have the surety of the Collector of Taxes, Deputy Collector of Taxes, Treas- urer, Town Clerk, and Secretary of the Water Commissioner's bond placed with a fidelity or guarantee company, and appro- priate a sum of money to pay for the same.
Article 9. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Town Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to bor- row money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1951 and to issue a note or notes therefor, payable within one year and to renew any note or notes as may be given for a period of less than one year in accordance with Section 17, Chapter 44, General Laws.
Article 10. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the carrying on of the Moth work for the coming year. 1000.00
Article 11. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for a Reserve Fund to provide for the extraordinary unforeseen expenses, as authorized by Section 6, Chapter 40, General Laws, or do or act in any manner relative thereto. Transferred $25.30
Article 12. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of money apportioned to Plainville for repairs and maintenance of the Norfolk County Hospital. 1586.36
Article 13. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the operation of Road Ma- chinery or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
Transferred" 1000 00
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Article 14. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate, or transfer from unappropriated available funds in the treasury, a sum of money for Chapter 90 Highway Main- tenance, or take any action in relation thereto. 700.00 140000
Article 15. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate, or transfer from unappropriated available funds in the treasury, a sum of money for Chapter 81 Highways, or take any action in relation thereto.
4300- 9075.00
Article 16. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate a sum of money for the care and maintenance of the Town Dump, or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
Article 17. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the purchase of a new truck for the Highway Department, or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
Article 18. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $2,000.00, or any other sum, to continue the drainage program, or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
Article 19. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $200.00 or, any other sum for the continuation of the eradication of poison ivy in the Town, or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
Article 20. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the extension of Town Water from its present point on School Street to a point about opposite the residence of Ernest Alix, or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
Article 21. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the repair of School Street, after the installation of Town Water.
Article 22. To see if the Town will vote to install three (3) Street Lights on the westerly side of Washington Street, between the residences of William Card and Fred Benker, and the money to pay for same to be raised and appropriated
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under Sec. 19 of Article 7, or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
Article 23. (Petition) To see if the Town will vote and raise and appropriate the sum of $5,000.00, or any other sum for the extension of Town Water from its present point on East Bacon Street (or East Bacon Street Extension) easterly along said street 2000 feet more or less, or do or act in any maner relative thereto.
Article 24. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the repair of East Bacon Street Extension, after the installation of Town Water.
Article 25. To see if the Town will vote to lay a black top sidewalk on the southerly side of East Bacon Street, from Grove easterly for 950 feet more or less to about Hillcrest Drive, and raise and appropriate a sum of money to pay for same, or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
Article 26. To see if the Town will vote to adopt the following by-law: "The Town Treasurer shall have the cus- tody, management and sale of all lands for taxes after the title of the Town has become absolute by the foreclosure of the right of redemption according to law. And he is authorized and empowered, with the approval of the Board of Select- men, in the name and on behalf of the Town to sell and convey such lands and to execute, acknowledge and deliver proper deeds for that purpose."
Article 27. To see if the Town will vote to have placed in the Town Warrant for adoption at the next Town Meeting, the Zoning and Building Code By-Laws, as printed in the 1949 Town Report, or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
Article 28. To see if the Town will vote to relocate and rebuild Taunton Street from Cowell Street to the Wrentham line to meet the new road the Town of Wrentham is building, and raise and appropriate the sum of $2,500.00, or any otheri sum, to start said construction, or do or act in any manner relative thereto. The estimated cost of this new road in Plainville is $20,000.00, of which amount the State will provide $10,000.00, Norfolk County $5,000.00 and the Town $5,000.00.
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Article 29. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, or transfer from available funds in the treasury, the sum of $1,000.00 to the Stabilization Fund as provided for in Chap. 124, Acts of 1945. This amount to be added to the sum already in said fund and to be used for building and equipping a new public library building.
Article 30. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, or transfer from available funds in the treasury, a sum of money for the purchase of war bonds or other bonds that are legal investments for savings banks, in order to in- crease the Post-War Rehabilitation Fund, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 5, Acts of 1943; this increase to be added to the amount already earmarked for the building and equipping of a new school building, or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
Article 31. (By School Committee) To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $1500.00, or any other sum, for grading the front, sides, and rear yards of the Town Hall building, complete with hard top surface, or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
Article 32. (By School Committee) To see if the Town will vote to create a special board, to be known as a Regional School District Planning Board, consisting of three members (one of which shall be a member of the School Committee), whose duty it shall be to study the advisibility of establishing a Regional School District. That is its organization, operation and control, and of constructing, maintaining and operating a school or schools to serve the needs of such district; to estimate the construction and operating costs thereof; to investigate the methods of financing such school or schools, and any other matters pertaining to the organization and operation of a regional school district; and to submit a report of its finding and recommendations to the Selectmen of the several towns. This board to be appointed by the Moderator. This is in accordance with Chap. 638, Sections 14 and 14A of the General Laws.
Article 33. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum in amount of $200.00 for the expense which may be incurred by the Regional School District Planning Board, or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
Article 34. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $500.00 or any other sum, for the use
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of the School Planning Committee in continuing its work, or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
Article 35. To see if the Town will vote to sell for the sum of $100.00, the following described portion of Plainville Park, so-called, to the John Edward McNeill Post American Legion Building Association, as authorized by the provision of Chapter P, Acts of 1950; "the land in said Plainville situated on the westerly side of South Street, and bounded and described as follows: 'Beginning at a point on the westerly side of said Street at the southest corner of land now or formerly of McNeill; thence running westerly by said McNeill land 150 feet; thence running southerly in a line parallel to the westerly line of said Street, 90 feet; thence running easterly to said Street; thence running northerly by said Street, 90 feet to the point of beginning'." This land and buildings, if any, to revert back to the Town in case of dis- bandment of said Building Association. And authorize the Board of Selectmen to execute, acknowledge, and deliver proper instruments of transfer and conveyance on behalf of the Town, or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
Article 36. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $388.25, this being the amount ap- portioned to Plainville as its share of the cost of the Norfolk County Retirement System, or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
Article 37. To choose any committee and to hear the report of any committee and act thereon.
And you are directed to serve this Warrant, by posting up attested copies thereof at seven (7) Public Places in said Town, seven (7) days at least before the time of holding said meeting.
Hereof fail not, and make due return of this Warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk, at the time and place of meeting as aforesaid.
Given under our hands this first day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fifty.
RALPH E. CROWELL SYDNEY J. ANDREWS ARTHUR W. WASHBURN Selectmen of Plainville
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Index
Assessors' Report 94
Auditors' Report 107
Board of Health 92
Building Codes and Zoning Laws Committee Report 102
Collector of Taxes Report 72
Fire Engineers' Report
90
Highway Department Report
96
Inspector of Animals Report
39
Inspector of Milk and Dairies Report 93
Inspector of Slaughtering Report 93
Moth Department Report 73
Park and Playground Commissioners' Report 100
Police Department Report 89
Public Library 88
Registrars' Report 39
School Committee
43
Attendance Tables
68
High School Graduation Exercises 65
List of Teachers 69
Membership by Age and Grade
70
School Calendar
45
School Committee
46
School Committee Budget
49
School Officials
44
Superintendent of Schools
50
Sealer of Weights and Measures 82
Selectmen's Report 108
Aid to Dependent Children (Town Appropriation) 113
Aid to Dependent Children (Federal Grant) 115
Aid to Dependent Children (Federal Grant Adm.) 115
Board of Health 111
Board of Health (Garbage Disposal) 112 Current and Incidentals 109
General Welfare 109
Insurance
110
Memorial Day 111
Norfolk County Hospital 111
Norfolk County Retirement System 111
Old Age Assistance (Town Appropriation) 114
Old Age Assistance (Federal Grant)
114
Old Age Assistance (Federal Grant) Administrative. . Painting Town Hall 113
114
Poison Ivy Control
113
Street Lights 111
Town Dump 112
Town Office and Fire Station 109
Town Official Bonds 112
Veterans' Benefits 110
Welfare Agent 112
State Audit
40
Town Clerk's Report 7
Appointment of Assistant Town Clerk 38
Births Recorded in Plainville During 1949 30
Building Code and Zoning Laws Committee 25 34
Deaths Recorded in Plainville During 1949
Expenses
38
Jury List
42
Library Building Committee Report 25
Licenses and License Fees Received by Town Clerk. . 36
Marriages Recorded in Plainville During 1949 32
School Planning Committee 26
Warrant for Annual Town Meeting, 1949
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Warrant for Special Town Meeting, July 18, 1949
27
Town Forest Committee Report
87
Town Officers 3
Treasurer's Report 74
Tree Warden Report 91
Valuation of Real Estate and Personal Property 117
Warrant for Annual Town Meeting, 1950 163
Water Commissioner's Report 83
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TOWN OFFICERS
MODERATOR-One Year CHARLES O. PEASLEY
TOWN CLERK-One Year ARTHUR W. WASHBURN CHARLES S. COBB, Assistant Clerk
TOWN TREASURER-Three Years EDWARD E. OSTERHOLM
SELECTMEN, WELFARE BOARD and BOARD OF HEALTH
ARTHUR W. WASHBURN
Term expires 1951
SYDNEY J. ANDREWS
Term expires 1952
LEROY B. WILSON
Term expires 1953
ASSESSORS
FRANK V. HENRICH
Term expires 1951
CHARLES J. QUIRK
Term expires 1952
SYDNEY J. ANDREWS
Term expires 1953
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
JOHN M. BOWMAR
Term expires 1951
CLINTON E. BARTON
Term expires 1952
EDWARD H. HEMMINGSEN
Term expires 1953
WATER COMMISSIONERS
FRANK V. HENRICH
Term expires 1951
ALTON E. FRENCH
Term expires 1952
HARRY B. THOMPSON
Term expires 1953
TRUSTEES OF PUBLIC LIBRARY
ALICE M. PEASE
Term expires 1951
ARTHUR W. WASHBURN
Term expires 1952
THEODORE A. WICKMAN
Term expires 1953
TAX COLLECTOR-Three Years
THEODORE A. WICKMAN Term expires 1953
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PARK COMMISSIONERS
CLARENCE F. TELFORD
EDWARD H. HEMMINGSEN
ROBERT J. FAWCETT
Term expires 1951 Term expires 1952 Term expires 1953
AUDITOR-One Year LAWRENCE H. CARPENTER
CONSTABLES-One Year
HERBERT A. MORSE ELMER C. PEASE CHESTER A. MEYER
TREE WARDEN-One Year ALEC H. FREDRICKSON
FENCE VIEWERS and FIELD DRIVERS-One Year CHESTER A. MEYER
HERBERT A. MORSE ELMER C. PEASE
MEASURERS OF WOOD, BARK and LUMBER
GEORGE H. SNELL HARRY O. PROAL JESSE W. FRANKLIN EVERETT W. SKINNER
APPOINTED BY FIRE ENGINEERS Chief of Fire Department CHRISTIAN F. HENRICH
APPOINTED BY SELECTMEN Acting Chief of Police CHESTER A. MEYER
Superintendent of Streets HARRY O. PROAL
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Fire Engineers CHRISTIAN F. HENRICH
CHESTER A. MEYER ALTON E. FRENCH
Forrest Warden CHRISTIAN F. HENRICH
Official Weigher and Sealer of Weights and Measures ADRIAN G. WHEELER
Town Burial Agent WESLEY H. BURTON
Special Police
EUGENE J. BRODEUR
GEORGE A. CLARKE
CLINTON E. BARTON
ARCHIE L. WALDEN
RALPH E. FRENCH FRANK KING
ALTON E. FRENCH
EVERETT SKINNER
CLARENCE AVERY CLAYTON E. CATE
CHARLES E. CARTER-YMCA Day Camp only EVERETT C. DAVIS-Beagle Club property only
CHIEF-PETER J. McKEON, North Attleboro CHIEF-WALTER HOBBS, Wrentham CHIEF-JOSEPH DEAN, Foxboro
North Attleboro Officers-Special Police in Plainville CARL MacDONALD
JOSEPH MCAVOY
DANA RALPH JAMES N. WATTERS HENRY IRVINE
JOSEPH LaCASSE
JOHN J. MCCARTHY
STANLEY H. LYKUS
ROBERT MORSE
GEORGE ELLIOTT LEO DESAUTEL LEROY GORDON
Fire Police GEORGE A. CLARKE
JESSE W. FRANKLIN CHARLES F. BREEN, JR.
Inspector of Animals EARL B. THOMPSON
Inspector of Slaughtering EARL B. THOMPSON
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Milk Inspector EARL B. THOMPSON
Sanitation Inspector PUTNAM STEEL, E. Bridgewater
Dog Officer HERBERT A. MORSE
Moth Inspector ALEC H. FREDRICKSON
Inspector of Wires CHARLES G. HAYES
Registrars of Voters
DACIA A. ANDERSON
Term expires 1951
FRANK KING HAROLD L. ANDERSON
Term expires 1952 Term expires 1953
ARTHUR W. WASHBURN
Night Patrolman ELMER C. PEASE
Welfare Agent and Clerk of Selectmen RUTH R. FULTON
Town Physician MAURICE D. GRANT, M.D.
Town Forest Committee
GEORGE H. SNELL
Term expires 1951
EDGAR F. BERRY
Term expires 1952
HARRY O. PROAL
Term expires 1953
APPOINTMENT AT ANNUAL TOWN MEETING
Advisory or Financial Committee
RALPH E. CROWELL ALPIN CHISHOLM
OLIVER P. BROWN REGINALD B. KEYES
CHARLES F. BREEN, JR. ARTHUR W. WASHBURN
EDWARD E. OSTERHOLM
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WARRANT FOR SPECIAL TOWN MEETING
THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
Norfolk, ss.
To Either of the Constables of Plainville. Greeting:
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Plainville qualified to vote in Town affairs, to meet in Town Hall in said Plainville, on
MONDAY, THE TWENTIETH DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1950 A. D.
at eight o'clock in the evening, then and there to act on the following Articles, viz:
Article 1. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to appoint an inspector of wires as provided for in Chap. 529 of the General Laws, and raise and appropriate a sum of money to pay said inspector, or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
Article 2. To see if the Town will vote to ratify and confirm the sales and conveyances of all parcels of land for- merly held by the Town under tax title proceedings and on which all rights of redemption have been foreclosed, made by the Treasurer or his predecessors in office, to the date of this meeting, or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
Article 3. To see if the Town will vote to have placed in the Warrant for the Annual Town Meeting to be held March 6, 1950, the following article, "To see if the Town will vote to adopt the following by-law; The Town Treasurer shall have the custody, management and sale of all lands held by the Town under a tax collector's deed or a taking of land for taxes after the title of the Town has become absolute by the foreclosure of the right of redemption according to law. And
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he is authorized and empowered, with the approval of the Board of Selectmen, in the name and on behalf of the Town to sell and convey such lands and to execute, acknowledge and deliver proper deeds for that purpose, or do or act in any man- ner relative thereto."
Article 4. To hear the report of the School Planning Committee appointed under Art. 26 of the Warrant for the Town Meeting held on the 4th day of March, 1946.
Article 5. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, or transfer from available funds in the treasury, a sum of money for the purpose of securing preliminary plans for a school building, said appropriation to be under the con- trol of the School Planning committee appointed under Art. 26 of the Warrant for the Town Meeting held on the 4th day of March, 1946.
Article 6. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the purpose of acquiring by purchase, or by taking by right of eminent domain, land to be used as a school site, located on the West side of South Street, now owned by Ralph Crowell and Merrill N. II and Beatrice M. Falk, said land said to contain approximately 712 acres, more or less, and as more fully described on Assessors Plat No. 5.
Article ". To see if the Town will vote to accept as a gift, a parcel of land from Leon E. and Ellen C. Smith, to be used as a school site, said land to contain approximately 10 acres, and as more fully described on Assessors Plat No. 5.
Article 8. To see if the Town will vote to accept a parcel of land from Ralph E. Crowell, said land said to con- tain approximately 13 acres and more fully described on As- sessors Plat No. 5. Said land to be accepted by the Town as a gift to be later turned over to the Park Commission for ad- dition to its present holdings.
And you are directed to serve this Warrant, by posting up attested copies thereof at seven (7) Public Places in said Town, seven (7) days at least before the time of holding said meeting.
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Hereof fail not, and make due return of this Warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk, at the time and place of meeting as aforesaid.
Given under our hands this first day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand, nine hundred and fifty.
RALPH E. CROWELL SYDNEY J. ANDREWS ARTHUR W. WASHBURN
Selectmen of Plainville
A true copy. Attest:
HERBERT A. MORSE,
Constable of the Town of Plainville This 11th day of February, 1950.
OFFICER'S RETURN OF WARRANT
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
Norfolk, ss.
This is to certify that I have posted 7 copies of the within Warrant in 7 public places of the Town of Plainville 9 days before the time of said meeting.
HERBERT A. MORSE,
Constable of the Town of Plainville
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 11th day of February, 1950.
ARTHUR W. WASHBURN,
Town Clerk
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MINUTES OF SPECIAL TOWN MEETING
A Special Town Meeting was held in the Town Hall, Monday, February 20th, 1950
The Moderator called the meeting to order at 8 p. m. The Town Clerk read the call of the meeting. Rev. John M. Bowmar was called on for a short prayer.
Article 1. Motion by Sydney J. Andrews, and unanimous- ly voted that the Town vote to authorize the Selectmen to appoint an Inspector of Wires as provided for in Chapter 529 of the General Laws, and raise and appropriate the sum of $200.00 to pay said Inspector.
Article 2. Motion by Ralph E. Crowell, and unanimously voted to ratify and confirm the sales and conveyances of all parcels of land formerly held by the Town under Tax Title proceedings and on which all rights of redemption have been foreclosed, made by the Treasurer or his predecessors in office, to the date of this meeting.
Article 3. Motion by Ralph E. Crowell, and unanimously voted to have placed in the Warrant for Annual Town Meeting to be held March 6, 1950, the following Article, "To see if the Town will vote to adopt the following by-law; The Town Treasurer shall have the custody, management and sale of all lands held by the Town under a tax collector's deed, or a taking of land for taxes after the title of the Town has be- come absolute by the foreclosure of the right of redemption according to law. And he is authorized and empowered, with the approval of the Board of Selectmen, in the name and on behalf of the Town to sell and convey such lands and to execute, acknowledge and deliver proper deeds for that pur- pose.
Article 4. Motion by Ralph E. Crowell, and unanimously voted that we hear the report of the School Planning Com- mittee appointed under Article 26 of the Warrant for the Town Meeting held on the 4th day of March, 1946. Mr. Alpin Chis- holm read the report of the School Planning Committee, after which the Architect, Mr. Harry J. Korslund, showed slides of the building and explained the layout. The report of the Com-
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mittee was accepted, and they were given a rising vote of thanks, for the splendid work they had done.
Article 5. Motion by Alpin Chisholm, and unanimously voted that the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $5,000.00 for the purpose of securing preliminary plans for a school building, said appropriation to be under the control of the School Planning Committee, and not to be expended until a site for the school building has been decided upon.
Article 6. Motion by Alpin Chisholm, that the town vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $3,500.00 for the pur- pose of acquiring by purchase, or by taking by right of eminent domain, land to be used as a school site, located on the West side of South Street, now owned by Ralph E. Crowell and Merrill N. II, and Beatrice M. Falk, said land to contain ap- proximately 71/2 acres more or less, and as more fully describ- ed on Assessors Plat No. 5; and that this vote when taken be by a standing vote.
Motion by Everett Skinner that we amend this motion in that the vote be taken by ballot. Amendment lost. The original motion was then adopted by vote of 161 in the affirmative, and 38 in the negative.
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