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Article 7. To see if the Town will vote to conduct services on Memorial Day, the thirtieth of May, appoint a committee, raise and appropriate money, or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted: That the Moderator be authorized to appoint a committee of five to plan and carry out exercises on Memorial Day, the thirtieth of May next and that the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $150.00 for the use of such Committee in connection with these exercises.
Article 8. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $974.30 to pay the following unpaid 1953 bills: Water Department $276.00 School Department 323.55
Legal 374.75
Voted: That the Town appropriate the sum of $974.30 to pay the following unpaid 1953 bills:
Water Department $276.00
School Department 323.55
374.75
Legal
$276.00 to be taken from Water Works Funds and the balance of $698.30 to be taken from Free Cash.
Article 9. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate additional funds for the use of the Bi-centennial Committee, or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted: That the Town appropriate the sum of $3,500.00 for the use of the Bi-centennial Committee, said sum to be taken from Free Cash.
Article 10. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to purchase the following town vehicles to replace existing equipment: Police car, Highway truck, Water Department truck, or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted: That the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $3,199.00, $699.00 for the purchase of a police car, Chevrolet to be turned in, and $2,500.00 for the purchase of a highway truck, 1946 White truck to be turned in; also the sum of $1,066.00 for the purchase of a Water Department truck, 1948 Chevrolet truck to be turned in, said sum to be taken from Water Works Treasury.
Article 11. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the purchase of a motor driven street sweeper or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted: That the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $550.00 for the purchase of a motor driven street sweeper.
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Article 12. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the installation of new alarm equipment for the use of the Fire Department or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted: That the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $1,210.00 for the purchase and installation of new alarm equipment for the fire department.
Article 13. To see if the Town will vote to discontinue as a public highway that portion of the Old Bedford Road, beginning at the Bedford-Lincoln town line, and extending in a southwesterly direction for a distance of about 2,100 feet to a point where said Old Bedford Road intersects with the substitute way constructed by the Federal Government, or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted: That the Town vote to discontinue as a public highway that portion of the Old Bedford Road, beginning at the Bedford-Lincoln town line and extending in a southwesterly direction for a distance of about 2,100 feet, to a point where said Old Bedford Road intersects with the substitute way constructed by the Federal Government.
Article 14. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Modera- tor to appoint a committee of five to investigate and study the effect on the Town of the development of Lawrence G. Hanscom Field (Bedford Airport) and other facilities or operations related thereto; to report thereon with recommendations to the Selectmen and with the approval of the Selectmen, to take such action with reference thereto as the committee may determine to be in the interest of the Town including, but not limited to, representing the Town at hearings of legislative bodies or governmental agencies; to raise and appropriate the sum of five hundred dollars ($500) for the use of said committee, or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted: That the Town of Lincoln authorize the Moderator to appoint a committee of five to investigate and study the effects on the Town of the development of Lawrence G. Hanscom Field (Bedford Airport) and other facilities or operations related thereto; to report thereon with recommendations to the Selectmen and with the approval of the Selectmen to take such action with reference thereto as the committee may determine to be in the best interest of the Town including, but not limited to, representing the Town at hearings of legislative bodies or governmental agencies; raise and appropriate the sum of five hun- dred dollars ($500.00) for the use of said committee, including ex- penses for travel out of the Commonwealth, said sum to be taken from Free Cash.
Article 15. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Zoning By -. Law by amending Section 11, Paragraph (d) as follows:
Change the period to a comma and add the following: "and shall also hear and decide requests for special permits to issue, subject to con- ditions and safeguards imposed by the Board of Appeals, for temporary structures and uses which do not conform to the regulations herein prescribed, provided that no such permit shall be for longer than a
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three year period" or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted: To amend the Zoning By-Law by amending Section 11, Para- graph (d) as follows: Change the period to a comma and add the follow- ing: "and shall also hear and decide requests for special permits to issue subject to conditions and safeguards imposed by the Board of Appeals, for temporary structures and uses which do not conform to the regulations herein described, provided that no permit shall be for longer than a three year period."
Article 16. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) for use in mosquito con- trol; the appropriation to be expended to re-open mosquito control as provided for in Chapter 252 of the General Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted: That the Moderator appoint a committee of three to bring in a report on mosquito control at the next town meeting, regular or special. Committee appointed: Charles H. Blake, Mrs. John B. Warner and John B. Tew.
Article 17. To see if the Town will vote to change the name of the street extending from Lexington Road to North Great Road, from Mill Street to Old Mill Road.
Voted: Under this article a motion "That the name of the street extending from Lexington Road to North Great Road be changed from Mill Street to Old Mill Road" was lost.
Article 18. To see if the Town will vote to acquire by purchase, gift, eminent domain or any other way, a parcel of land located on Bedford Road, south west of the intersection of Route 2 and Bedford Road, containing 22,000 square feet more or less, raise and appropriate a sum of money therefor or take any action relative thereto.
Voted: To pass over the Article.
Article 19. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $5,000.00 to be used by a Committee appointed by the Modera- tor to study further the building needs of the Lincoln schools, or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted: That the Moderator appoint a committee to study the build- ing needs of the elementary school, and make its recommendation to the Town, and that the sum of $3.000.00 be appropriated for the use of this committee for professional services in developing plans and cost estimates if required. Committee appointed: Ernest P. Neumann, Elizabeth J. Snelling, Andrew J. Dougherty, Elliott V. Grabill and. Stanley Heck.
Article 20. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Fifteen Thousand Dollars ($15,000) or any other sum, for the use of the Regional District School Committee in the event that a Regional School District is established with the Town of Sudbury by vote of the Town of Sudbury and by vote of this Town on the related
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question in Article 1 of this Warrant; such sum to be made available to said Regional District School Committee, if and when created, only after a budget of such Committee has been approved by the Finance Com- mittee and Selectmen of this Town and the Town of Sudbury, in accord- ance with provisions of a proposed agreement filed with the Selectmen, or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted: (unanimously) That the Town appropriate the sum of fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000.00) for the use of the Regional District School Committee of the Regional School District in the event that such Regional School District is established by vote of the Town of Sudbury on March Ist, 1954, and by vote of this Town on the related question in Article 1 of the Warrant for this Town Meeting, such sum to be taken from Free Cash.
Article 21. To see if the Town will vote to repeal the present Town By-Laws except the Zoning By-Law and the Building Code By-Law and adopt new "General By-Laws of the Town of Lincoln."
Voted: (unanimously) That the Town repeal the present Town By- Laws except the Zoning By-Laws and the Building Code By-Laws and adopt new "General By-Laws of the Town of Lincoln" as printed under Article 21 of the warrant for this meeting. At this point Mr. Henry Warner spoke of the good and efficient work of Mr. F. Winchester Denio for the Committee. Loud and prolonged applause.
William H. Davis, Town Clerk
ANNUAL TOWN ELECTION March 6, 1954
In accordance with Article 1 of the Warrant the Moderator declared the polls open at 12 o'clock noon, previously the ballot box had been inspected and the following Ballot Clerks duly sworn: Helena A. Dee, Helen M. Dougherty, Ann E. Paddock, Manley B. Boyce, D. Everett Sher- man, Jr., and William 0. Causer, the Polls were declared closed at 7 o'clock P. M. with the following results. Total number of votes cast 722.
Moderator (Three years)
Donald P. Donaldson 684
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38
Town Clerk (One year)
William H. Davis
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28
69L
Selectman (Three years)
Henry DeC. Ward 671 Blanks 51
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Assessor (Three years)
Arthur W. Rice, Jr.
661
Blanks
61
Treasurer (One year)
Frederick B. Taylor
680
Blanks
42
Auditor (One year)
664
Louis C. Farley, Jr.
Blanks
58
School Committee (Three years)
Lucy E. Bygrave
,289
Elizabeth C. Donaldson 426
Blanks
7
Water Commissioner (Three years)
Robert W. Scott
.286
Edward S. Taylor 421
1 Scattering
Blanks
Board of Health (Three years)
Ellen DeN. Cannon
669
Blanks
53
Tree Warden (One year)
668
Daniel A. MacInnis, Jr.
Blanks
54
Commissioner of Trust Funds (Three years)
William T. King
662
Blanks
60
Trustee of Bemis Fund for Free Public Lectures (Three years) Leonard C. Larrabee 661
Blanks
61
Cemetery Commissioner (Three years)
.667
Robert D. Donaldson
Blanks
55
Planning Board (Five years)
Alan McClennen
662
Blanks
60
Director of deCordova and Dana Museum (Four years) Elizabeth J. Snelling 673 31 anks 49
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Question No. 1 Regional School District
Yes 651 No
36
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35
Question No. 2
(An Act restricting the use of lands abutting the highway known as Route 2 in the towns of Lincoln and Concord) Yes 473 No 186
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SPECIAL TOWN MEETING July 26, 1954
Pursuant to a Warrant duly served the Meeting was called to order by the Town Clerk at 7:30 P.M. The return of the Warrant was read, on motion, seconded Mr. Sumner Smith was elected temporary Moderator and duly sworn.
Article 1. To see if the Town disapproves of the amount of debt ($100,000) authorized by the Lincoln-Sudbury Regional District School Committee for the purpose of acquiring land, constructing, originally equipping and furnishing a school building.
Under this Article a motion "That this meeting go on record as expressing disapproval of the amount of debt, namely $100,000, authorized by the Lincoln-Sudbury Regional District School Committee for the purpose of acquiring land, constructing, originally equipping and furnishing a school building" was lost, the vote against the motion being unanimous. The meeting adjourned at 8 o'clock P.M.
William H. Davis, Town Clerk
STATE PRIMARY September 14, 1954
Warrant
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
To either of the Constables of the Town of Lincoln Greeting :
In the name of the Commonwealth, you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of said Town who are qualified to vote in Primaries to meet in the Town House Tuesday, the fourteenth day of September, 1954, at one o'clock P.M. for the following purposes: To bring in their votes to the Primary Officers for the nomination of Candidates of Political Parties for the following offices: Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary, Treasurer and Receiver General, Audi- tor, Attorney General, Senator in Congress, all for this Commonwealth; Representative in Congress, 5th Congressional District, Senator, 5th
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Senatorial District, Representative in General Court, 10th Middlesex District, Councillor, 3rd Councillor District, District Attorney, Registrar of Probate and Insolvency, Middlesex County, County Com- missioner, Middlesex County, County Treasurer, Middlesex County. The polls will be open from one P.M. to eight P.M. Hereof fail not and make return of this Warrant with your doings thereon at the time and place of said meeting. Given under our hands this 23rd day of
August A.D. 1954.
Edmund W. Giles ) Selectmen of
Henry DeC. Ward )
J. O. Wilson ) Lincoln
A True Copy Attest:
Friday, September 3, 1954 Leo J. Algeo, Constable
In accordance with the above Warrant the Polls were declared open at one P.M. by Mr. Henry DeC. Ward, Warden. The following Ballot Clerks were duly sworn: Helena A. Dee, Helen M. Dougherty, Manley B. Boyce, Elizabeth J. Snelling, William O. Causer and D. Everett Sherman, Jr. At 4 o'clock P.M. Mr. Edmund W. Giles assumed the duties of Warden, Mr. John O. Wilson assumed Warden's duties at 6:30 P.M. and declared the Polls closed at 8 P.M. Total vote, 916:Republican 879, Democratic 37.
Republican Governor
Christian A. Herter 815
Blanks 64
Lieutenant Governor
Sumner G. Whittier 802
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77
Secretary
Michael G. McCarty
786
Blanks 93
Treasurer
Augustus G. Means
785
Blanks 94
Auditor
William P. Constantino 786
Blanks
93
Attorney General 801
George Fingold
Blanks
78
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Senator in Congress
Leverett Saltonstall 813 Blanks 66
Congressman, 5th Middlesex
Edith Nourse Rogers 797
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82
Councillor, 3rd District 794
David B. Williams
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85
Senator, 5th Middlesex 807
Richard I. Furbush
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72
Representative in General Court, 10th Middlesex
Jefts B. Beede 60
B. Allen Benjamin 47
James L. Cunningham 182
James DeNormandie 590
Blanks
6
District Attorney, Northern District
George E. Thompson 713
Blanks
166
Register of Probate and Insolvency, Middlesex County
Sumner R. Andrews
121
Gordon L. Axtman
7
James J. Bagley
29
Robert W. Cook 34
Lawrence H. Davis 56
Warren J. Fitzgerald 380
Gordon F. Hughes 16
John F. Lombard 24
Clarence E. Lord
3
Frederick J. Wheeler, Jr. 17
192 Blanks
County Commissioner, Middlesex County
Alan G. Adams 455
Stanley E. Andrews 115
Ernest Brenner 67
Albert L. Daigle 9
7
Delbert A. Merenda
Ellis Sutcliffe 18
Horace H. Walker 10
Guy Dinnuccio
5
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D. Paul Wormwood
6
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187
County Treasurer, Middlesex County
Charles P. Howard
713
Blanks
166
Democratic
Governor
Robert F. Murphy
26
Francis E. Kelley
9
Scattering
1
Blanks
1
Lieutenant Governor
James A. Burke
32
Blanks
5
Edward J. Cronin
33
Blanks
4
Treasurer
Clement A. Riley
18
William F. Carr 7
John F. Kennedy 11
Blanks
1
Auditor
Thomas J. Buckley
33
Blanks
4
Attorney General 32
John F. Collins
Blanks
5
Senator in Congress
Foster Furcolo
29
John J. Fitzgerald
4
Joseph L. Murphy
3
Blanks
1
Congressman, 5th Congressional 7
J. L. Cunningham
Blanks
36
Councillor, 3rd District 6
Joseph P. Ducca
Orlando P. Harris
2
Endicott Peabody
16
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Secretary
ELECTIONS
Thomas C. Quinn 10 Blanks 3
Senator, 5th Middlesex
James J. Vahey 33
Blanks
4
Representative in General Court, 10th Middlesex
P. Joseph Murphy 29
J. L. Cunningham
4
Blanks
4
District Attorney, Northern District 2
Joseph V. Carroll
6
Paul V. Shaughnessy 20
Ervin L. Stackpole 5
Blanks
4
Register of Probate and Insolvency, Middlesex County
John J. Butler
7
Philip P. Dever
6
John J. Foley 12
Clifford Halligan 1
5
6 Blanks
County Commissioner, Middlesex County
Thomas B. Brennan 10
John J. Burke
Joseph Perry Costa 1
Walter J. Frizzell
0
William E. Higham 1
James P. McCarthy
Jeannette C. Chisholm Sullivan 15
4 Blanks
County Treasurer, Middlesex County
C. Michael Bradley 2
Francis T. Crawford
0
Timothy J. Cronin
7
Joseph M. Curley 3
2
Daniel J. Harley
3
Joseph T. Kelleher
4
Francis R. King
3
John J. McGlynn 0
Wilbur F. Nixon 2
Dennis O'Keefe
1
25
Edward L. Harley
2
John V. Harvey
Charles H. McCue
TOWN GOVERNMENT
Michael A. O'Leary 3 Blanks
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SPECIAL TOWN MEETING October 18, 1954
Pursuant to a Warrant duly served, the Meeting was called to order by the Moderator at 7:30 o'clock P.M., the return of the Warrant was read, and the following business transacted:
Article 1. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the purpose of constructing and originally equip- ping and furnishing an addition to the elementary school to include four class rooms and determine how the appropriation will be raised, by transfer from available funds, borrowing, or otherwise, or take any action relative thereto.
Voted: (unanimously) That the sum of $142,550.00 be raised and appropriated for the purpose of constructing and originally equipping and furnishing an addition to the elementary school to include four class rooms and, to meet said appropriation, that the sum of $12,550. be appropriated from available funds in the treasury, and that the Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen be and he hereby is author- ized to borrow the sum of $130,000.00, and to issue bonds or notes of the Town therefor; said loan hereby authorized is under the authority of and in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 44 of General Laws; and that the committee appointed by the Moderator in accordance with a vote of the Town under Article 19 at the Annual Meeting on March 1, 1954, is hereby continued and is hereby authorized and empowered to enter into contracts, and to do all things necessary to construct and equip and furnish said addition; and if a vacancy should occur in said committee the Moderator is hereby authorized to fill such vacancy; and in the event that a court of competent jurisdiction shall on or before March 1, 1955, decree that the sums left to the Town of Lincoln under Article 6 of the Will of Charles S. Smith be applied toward the cost of the said addition to the new elementary school, that all sums made available by such court decree be and they hereby are appropriated as a part of the sum of $142,550.00 above appropriated, and, in that event, the sum of $130,000.00, which the Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen is authorized to borrow, shall be reduced to the sum of $30,000.00, and that the sum of $12,550.00 appropriated hereunder from available funds in the treasury be reduced by any sums so decreed by the court in excess of the sum of $100,000.00.
Article 2. To see if the Town will vote to authorize and direct the Selectmen, in behalf of the Town, to petition a court of competent jurisdiction to decree that the sums left to the Town of Lincoln under Article 6 of the Will of Charles S. Smith be applied toward the cost of the proposed addition to the elementary school, or take any action relative thereto.
Voted: (unanimously) To authorize and direct the Selectmen, in
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behalf of the Town, to petition a court of competent jurisdiction to decree that the sums left to the Town of Lincoln under Article 6 of the Will of Charles S. Smith be applied towards the cost of the pro- posed addition to the elementary school, such school to be called the Charles Sumner Smith School. (At this time, Mr. F. Winchester Denio made the following remarks: "For the benefit of those who never knew Mr. Smith, I am awfully glad to tell you of some of his activities. He was our Representative in General Court for several terms, Chairman of the Board of Selectmen, Chairman of the Board of Cemetery Commission- ers, and a Commissioner of Trust Funds. He always had the interest of the Town at heart, and I can truthfully say no one did more than he for the Town he loved." Loud and prolonged applause).
Article 3. To see if the Town will vote to acquire by purchase, gift, eminent domain, or any other way, a parcel of land located on Bedford Road, southwest of the intersection of Bedford Road and Route 2, appropriate a sum of money therefor or take any other action rela- tive thereto.
Voted: That the Moderator appoint a Committee of five citizens, to include (1) the Chairman of the Fire Engineers, (2) the Chairman of the Planning Board, and three others, none of whom is a present member of any Town Board, such Committee to further study the needs of the Town in relation to Fire Department housing and advisable sites; and to make at least a progress report to the Town at the next regular Town Meeting. Committee appointed: Andrew J. Dougherty, Richard J. Eaton, S. Leonard Arnold, Henry M. Morgan and Russell L. Haden, Jr.
Article 4. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate additional funds for the use of the Water Department or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted: That the Town take $1, 800.00 from Salary and Wage Account and transfer it to the account of Meters and Operating Expense, also that the Town appropriate $1,500.00 for a heater for the pumping sta- tion, the money to be taken from the Water Works Treasury.
Article 5. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate additional funds for the use of the New School Construction Committee, or take any action relative thereto.
Voted: That the sum of $3,743.56 be appropriated from Free Cash to the use of the Lincoln School Building Committee.
Article 6. To see if the Town will accept as a public way the private road known as Granville Road approved by the Lincoln Planning Board December 27, 1951.
Voted: For the benefit of the abuttors to obtain the advantage of Town maintenance, subject to the receipt of a deed under easement in form satisfactory to the Selectmen, that the Town accept as a public way the private road now known as Granville Road, formerly Llanover Road, as shown on a plan duly recorded with Middlesex South District Registry of Deeds, Book 8195, Page 148, and approved by the Planning
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Board of the Town of Lincoln on December 23, 1953.
Article 7. To determine whether the Town shall instruct the Town Clerk to send to the two U. S. Senators from Massachusetts, and to its representative in Congress for the 5th Congressional District a petition, request or statement in regard to the use of the so-called Bedford Airport, known officially as the Lawrence G. Hanscom Field, by the U. S. Air Force for military purposes; or take any other action relative to the danger, property damage and annoyance to the citizens of the Town caused by the use of said Airport for military purposes, or take any other action relative thereto.
Under this Article the following resolution was passed unanimously: "That it is the opinion of this meeting that the interests of the Town require drastic action with reference to the Lawrence G. Hanscom Field (Bedford Airport) and that the following communication be presented forthwith to the United States Senators from Massachusetts and to our Representative in the Fifth Congressional District: "The citizens of the Town of Lincoln hereby declare to you their opposition to the in- creasing use of Lawrence G. Hanscom Field (Bedford Airport) by military aircraft and urgently request you to use every means in your power to have the amount of flying reduced and the expansion of the facilities
of the airport curtailed. absolutely unnecessary.
Reserve training out of this airport is Training could be as well accomplished at nearby airports farther removed from a great center of population. These flights are now ruining the peace of our Saturdays, holidays and Sundays, and even interrupt divine service. We ask you to have these flights entirely stopped and all training activities removed to other bases. The defence of Boston according to informed opinion can be accomplished effectively without stationing air defence wings at Bedford. We request that the number of jet fighters stationed at Bedford be kept at the absolute minimum necessary for the research mission only.
"We recognize that the experimental research now being conducted at Bedford cannot easily be relocated, because of the proximity of the base to centers of scientific knowledge; however, a large portion of this is planned to terminate within a definite period. Therefore, we cannot accept the present vast program of permanent construction now underway at Bedford as necessary.
" The citizens of Lincoln are aroused by the menace to their safety, peace and happiness; real estate values are being endangered. The roar of jet planes turns away prospective purchasers. Banks are be- coming reluctant to accept mortgages on property. Some residents are considering selling their homes and moving to less troubled neigh- borhoods. There is increasing fear that planes will crash in this area.
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