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ARTICLE 29. To see if the town will vote to accept as a Public Way and name Elm Court as approved by the Board of Survey, laid out by the Board of Selectmen, and shown on plan entitled "Acceptance Plan for Elm Court," made January, 1941, by Morse, Dickinson and Goodwin, Engineers, Haverhill, Mass.
Article withdrawn.
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ARTICLE 30. To see if the town will vote to accept the lay-out of the Board of Selectmen on Burnham Road, westerly of Boston and Maine Railroad, according to a plan entitled "Resurvey of portions of Burnham Road and York Street," drawn August, 1940 by Morse, Dickinson and Goodwin, Engineers, Haverhill, Mass.
Article withdrawn.
ARTICLE 31. To see if the town will vote to accept as a Public Way and name Highland Avenue as laid out by the Board of Sur- vey as shown on plan and profile entitled "Plan of Highland Ave- nue owned by Peter S. Myatt dated, January, 1941 drawn by Dana W. Clark, C.E.," on petition of Peter S. Myatt and others. Article withdrawn.
ARTICLE 32. To see if the Town of Andover will vote to accept as a public way and name Iceland Road, as approved by the Board of Survey and laid out by the Board of Selectmen as shown on plan entitled "Plan and Profile of Iceland Road," dated August, 1940, and drawn by John Franklin, C.E.
Article withdrawn.
ARTICLE 33. To see if the town will accept additional part of Princeton Avenue, Shawsheen Heights for the length of 520 feet running south from Corbett Street to a point or stone bound as a public way and shown on a plan on file with the Board of Survey, dated January, 1941, drawn by John Franklin, C.E., on petition of George R. Cairns and others.
Article withdrawn.
ARTICLE 34. To see if the town will vote to purchase of George and Frank Cairns the water mains with appurtenances thereto belonging, now laid in said street known as Princeton Avenue, running southerly off Corbett Street, provided the town votes to accept said road as a public way and to appropriate the sum of one thousand, one hundred and eighty-two dollars and fifty cents, ($1182.50) for said purpose, on petition of George and Frank Cairns and others.
Article withdrawn.
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ARTICLE 35. To see if the town will accept as a public way and name, Lincoln Circle, one hundred eighty feet running northerly from Shawsheen Road, plan on file with the Board of Survey, dated May, 1940, drawn by Morse, Dickinson & Goodwin, C.E., on petition of George R. Cairns and others.
Article withdrawn.
ARTICLE 36. To see if the town will vote to purchase of George and Frank Cairns the water mains with appurtenances thereto belonging, now laid in said street known as Lincoln Circle, run- ning northerly from Shawsheen Road, provided the town votes to accept said road as a public way and to appropriate the sum of six hundred and thirty-two dollars and fifty cents ($632.50) for said purpose, on petition of George and Frank Cairns and others.
Article withdrawn.
ARTICLE 37. To see if the town will authorize the Board of Pub- lic Works to eliminate a dangerous bend on Highland Road near the Phillips Academy property and appropriate the sum of fifteen hundred ($1500.00) dollars therefor, on petition of Joseph Myatt and others.
Voted, that article be defeated.
ARTICLE 38. To see if the town will authorize the Board of Pub- lic Works to widen Dascomb Road from Clark Road to a point beyond the house of Mr. Walter E. Curtis and appropriate the sum of sixteen hundred ($1600.00) dollars therefor, on petition of William J. Riley and others.
Voted, that article be defeated.
ARTICLE 39. To see if the town will authorize the Board of Pub- lic Works to extend the water main from the corner of High Plain Road and Beacon Street along Beacon Street, a distance of approximately fifteen hundred feet and appropriate the sum of two thousand five hundred and sixty ($2560.00) dollars therefor, providing W.P.A. labor is available, on petition of Carl Stevens and others.
Upon motion made by Mr. Stevens, and duly seconded, it was Voted, that the sum of $1280. be raised and appropriated, and the water main carried 750 feet, provided W.P.A. labor is available and that two houses are started this current year.
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ARTICLE 40. To see if the town will authorize the Board of Pub- lic Works to extend the water main from the corner of River Road and Brundrett Avenue along Brundrett Avenue a distance of fif- teen hundred feet to the property of Jacob Shlakis and appropriate the sum of two thousand three hundred and fifty ($2350.00) dol- lars therefor, providing W.P.A. labor is available, on petition of Alghi Shlakis and others.
Upon motion made by Mr. Turner, and duly seconded, it was Voted, that this article be withdrawn ..
ARTICLE 41. To see if the town will authorize the Board of Pub- lic Works to extend the water main from the corner of Brundrett Avenue and River Road along Brundrett Avenue to the property of Mr. Henry Robidoux and appropriate the sum of twenty-one hundred ($2100.00) dollars therefor, on petition of Henry Robi- doux and others.
Voted, that article be rejected.
ARTICLE 42. To see if the town will authorize the Board of Pub- lic Works to extend the water main from the corner of Sunset Rock Road and Spring Grove Road along Spring Grove Road a distance of approximately two hundred and seventy feet and ap- propriate the sum of nine hundred and eighty ($980.00) dollars therefor, on petition of George B. Horne and others.
Upon motion of Mr. Turner, and duly seconded, it was Voted, that the sum of $608.00 be appropriated to be used in conjunction with W.P.A. labor.
ARTICLE 43. To see if the town will authorize the Board of Pub- lic Works to extend the water main from the dead end on Vine Street along Vine Street a distance of eight hundred and thirty- two feet and appropriate the sum of eighteen hundred ($1800.00) dollars therefor, providing W.P.A. labor is available, on petition of Edward A. Doyle and others.
Upon motion made by Mr. Turner, and duly seconded, it was Voted, that article be withdrawn.
ARTICLE 44. To see if the town will authorize the Board of Pub- lic Works to provide and maintain Andover Skating Areas during
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the cold weather until the Town Meeting in 1942, and appropriate the sum of eight hundred ($800.00) dollars therefor and establish this item as part of the regular budget, on petition of the Com- mittee for Co-ordinated Recreation.
Voted, that article be rejected. (158 in the affirmative-222 in the negative.)
ARTICLE 45. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropri- ate the sum of twenty-five hundred ($2500.00) dollars to be used for the improvement of the grounds surrounding the Shawsheen School under the supervision of the School Committee, on petition of the Planning Board.
Upon motion of Mr. Squires, and duly seconded, it was Voted, that article be indefinitely postponed.
ARTICLE 46. To see if the town will authorize the Selectmen, the Board of Health and the Committee appointed at the Town Meet- ing in 1940 to survey the matter of disposal of garbage, rubbish and ashes, or all or any of them, to contract on behalf of the town, for a term of not more than three (3) years, for the collection and disposal of its garbage, refuse and offal, and will appropriate the sum of $12000.00 for the cost of such collection and disposal for the current year, on petition of John M. Mackenzie and others.
Upon motion made by Mr. Squires, and duly seconded, it was Voted, that article 46 be indefinitely postponed.
ARTICLE 47. To see if the town will raise and appropriate the sum of $1000.00 to begin the writing of a town history under the supervision of the Andover Historical Society, for publication in 1946, on petition of William A. Trow and others.
Voted, that article be rejected.
ARTICLE 48. To see if the town will authorize the Board of Pub- lic Works to cut back the corner so as to give a better angle of vision on Salem Street near the property of Mr. John Scherner and appropriate the sum of six hundred and twenty-five ($625.00) dollars therefor, on petition of John Scherner and others.
Upon motion made by Mr. Turner, and duly seconded, it was Voted, that the article be dismissed.
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ARTICLE 49. To see if the town will vote to accept from Smith P. and Lilla Burton on agreement to furnish the Town of Andover an easement allowing the laying and maintaining of a drainage system across their land from Elm Street to High Street and raise and appropriate the sum of $1200.00 to be spent under the direc- tion of the Board of Public Works in making a survey, plans and studies including a report with a view of providing suitable sani- tary and surface drainage structures to adequately serve that area of the town, bounded on the west by High Street, Cheever Circle and Pine Street, on the north by Haverhill Street, on the east by North Andover Town Line and on the south by Summer Street.
All the above in accordance with local and State Board of Health requirements, on petition of Frederick E. Cheever and others.
Upon motion of Mr. Hammond, and duly seconded, it was Voted, to appoint a special committee to make a survey of the drainage, sewerage, and water systems in the Town of Andover, without an appropriation.
ARTICLE 50. To see if the town will authorize the Board of Pub- lic Works to construct a sidewalk on the southerly side of Haver- hill Street from Enmore Street to High Street and appropriate the sum of twelve hundred and fifty ($1250.00) dollars therefor, on petition of Philip F. Leslie and others.
Voted, that article be rejected.
ARTICLE 51. To see if the town will authorize the Board of Pub- lic Works to repair cement sidewalks and line up curbing on streets in Shawsheen Village and appropriate the sum of fifteen hundred ($1500.00) dollars therefor, on petition of A. Norman Warhurst and others.
Voted, that article be rejected.
ARTICLE 52. To see if the town will amend the Zoning By-Law by the adoption of the following :
Amend Section XII paragraph No. 4 to read
4. Permit conversion of a one-family or a two-family house existing at the time this By-Law is adopted into a two-family or apartment house, on petition of the Planning Board.
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Upon motion made by Mr. Lamont, and duly seconded, it was Voted, that article be adopted as read. (In favor 218; none opposed)
ARTICLE 53. To see if the town will amend its Zoning By-Laws by extending northerly the business district on the easterly side of North Main Street from the present termination thereof, about opposite the southerly line of Lewis Street, so as to include in the said business district the following land, with the buildings there- on, owned by the trustees under the will of Jacob W. Barnard, to wit:
A certain tract of land, with the buildings thereon, situated on the easterly side of North Main Street and bounded southerly ninety-two feet more or less by the present business district; easterly two hundred seventy-one feet more or less by an embank- ment wall at the westerly bound of land now or formerly of Henry W. Barnard, of land now or formerly of Daniel and Mary Hart, of land now or formerly of one McCarthy, and of land now or formerly of one Barrett; northerly seventy feet more or less by land now or formerly of one Kydd, and ninety-eight feet more or less by land now or formerly of one Crowley; westerly two hun- dred ninety-nine feet more or less by North Main Street, on peti- tion of Foster C. Barnard and others.
Upon motion made by Mr. Lamont, and duly seconded, it was Voted, that Article 53 be approved and adopted as read.
ARTICLE 54. To see if the town will change Article IX Building Laws, Section 12, Height of Building, the last sentence (In no wooden tenement house hereafter erected shall any story or any part thereof above the second story be occupied or arranged for housekeeping independently of the lower stories nor shall any pro- vision be made for cooking nor shall any cooking be done above the second story) to read, where there is a front and rear exit to a third story building, provision may be made to be occupied and arranged for housekeeping and cooking, on petition of Patrick J. Hannon and others.
Voted, that article be defeated. (44 voted in the affirmative, 90 in the negative.)
ARTICLE 55. To see if the town will vote to permit Temple Emanuel, a corporation organized under the laws of the Common-
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wealth of Massachusetts, to use as a cemetery, for the burial of human bodies, a certain tract of land, approximately seven (7) acres, situated in the Northerly part of the Town of Andover, near the boundary line of the City of Lawrence; being part of a parcel known as Currier Farm, as shown on a plan described as "Proposed Cemetery Location in former Currier Farm, Andover and Lawrence, Mass., dated September, 1940, Dana W. Clark, C.E. and as approved and restricted by Andover Board of Ap- peals, on petition of Samuel Resnik and others.
Upon motion made by Mr. Resnik, and duly seconded, it was Voted, that Article 55 be adopted as read, but striking out the ten words following "Dana W. Clark, C.E."
ARTICLE 56. To see if the town will vote to accept as a Public Way and name Moraine Street as approved by the Board of Sur- vey, laid out by the Board of Selectmen and shown on plan en- titled "Plan of Moraine Street, Andover, Mass." made January, 1941 by Dana W. Clark, C.E., on petition of William Nicoll and others.
Voted, under Article 29 to be withdrawn.
ARTICLE 57. To see if the town will authorize the Board of Pub- lic Works to install a sewer line, beginning at the sewer line on Red Spring Road and extending along Moraine Street a distance of approximately seven hundred feet and appropriate the sum of twenty-one hundred ($2100.00) dollars therefor, and assess better- ments upon the estates benefited by the above extension, on peti- tion of William Nicoll and others.
Voted under Article 29 to be withdrawn.
ARTICLE 58. To see if the town will authorize the Board of Pub- lic Works to shape up, gravel and hard surface Moraine Street from the corner of Red Spring Road a distance of approximately seven hundred (700) feet and appropriate the sum of five hundred and forty ($540.00) dollars therefor, on petition of William Nicoll and others.
Voted under Article 29 to be withdrawn.
ARTICLE 59. To see if the town will vote to sell the property acquired by deed of the Collector of Taxes, dated December 11.
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1937, recorded North Essex District Registry of Deeds, Book 612, page 115.
Upon motion made by Mr. Winslow and duly seconded, it was Voted, that Article 59 be adopted as read.
ARTICLE 60. To see if the town will authorize the Board of Pub- lic Works to extend the water main from the corner of Porter Road and Abbot Street along Abbot Street a distance of five hundred feet and appropriate the sum of one thousand four hun- dred and twenty-five ($1425.00) dollars therefor, on petition of Louis G. Conkey and others.
Upon motion made by Mr. Turner, and duly seconded, it was Voted, that Article 60 be withdrawn.
ARTICLE 61. To see if the town will vote to authorize the Board of Public Works to extend the water main from the present dead end on Abbot Street, near cemetery entrance, a distance of four hundred feet, and appropriate the sum of five hundred and eighty ($580.00) dollars therefor, provided W.P.A. labor is available, on petition of Walter R. Selfridge and others.
Upon motion of Mr. Dunnells, and duly seconded, it was Voted, that Article 61 be adopted as read.
ARTICLE 62. To see if the town will vote to accept as a Public Way and name Bradley Avenue as approved by the Board of Sur- vey, laid out by the Board of Selectmen and shown on plan en- titled "Plan of Subdivision and New Street, Andover, Mass., made June, 1940 by Dana W. Clark, C.E.".
Voted, under Article 29 to be withdrawn.
ARTICLE 63. To see if the town will vote to purchase of Walter S. Walker, the water mains with appurtenances thereto belonging, now laid in said street, known as Bradley Avenue, provided the town votes to accept said road as a Public Way and to appropriate the sum of $443.64 for said purpose, on petition of Walter S. Walker and others.
Voted, under Article 29 to be withdrawn.
ARTICLE 64. To see if the town will vote to purchase from Karl C. Killorin a certain piece of land on Lowell Street easterly of the Haggetts Pond pumping station land, beginning at the corner of a fence on the northerly side of Lowell Street along said fence
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northerly four hundred feet more or less to the shore of Haggetts Pond, then northeasterly along the shore of Haggetts Pond two hundred twenty-five feet more or less, then southeasterly one hundred twenty feet more or less to a fence, then easterly along fence one hundred feet more or less, then southerly four hundred feet more or less to fence and land of Hill, then westerly four hundred eighteen feet along fence to point of beginning containing three acres plus, and appropriate $1250.00 for said purchase on petition of Karl C. Killorin and others.
Voted, that article be rejected.
ARTICLE 65. To determine what disposition shall be made of unexpended appropriations and free cash in the treasury.
Upon motion made by Mr. Eaton, and duly seconded, it was Voted, That all unexpended balances be turned into the treasury except the following :
(1) Articles 30 to 37 inclusive, last year's warrant,
New water construction $3580. 57
Article 33, W.P.A. materials and truck hire 100.72
Article 44, Skating Area 177.57
Article 2 (October-1938)
North Main Street project 77.97
Article 10 (1937) River Road construction accumu- lation of several years balances 3807.17
(2) That $15,000 free cash be transferred to the Reserve Fund
(3) That $18,750 free cash be voted the Assessors to reduce the 1941 tax rate.
ARTICLE 66. To act upon the report of the Town Officers.
Upon motion made by Mr. Winslow and duly seconded, it was Voted, that the report of the Town Officers be accepted and placed on file.
ARTICLE 67. To transact any other business that may legally come before the meeting.
Upon motion made by Miss Olive Butler, and duly seconded, it was Voted, to adjourn.
The meeting was adjourned at 10.45 o'clock P.M.
The foregoing is a true record of the doings of the meeting.
GEORGE H. WINSLOW,
Town Clerk
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Special Primary DECEMBER 16, 1941
WARRANT THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS ESSEX, SS.
TO EITHER OF THE CONSTABLES OF THE TOWN OF ANDOVER,
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 Square and Compass Club Hall -- Precinct Two Only, Tuesday, the sixteenth day of December, 1941 at 12:00 o'clock noon for the following purposes:
To bring in their votes to the Primary Officers for the Election of Candidates of Political Parties for the following purposes :
Congressman-Seventh Congressional District (to fill a vacancy)
The polls will be open from 12:00 o'clock noon to 7:00 o'clock 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 Seventeenth day of November, A.D., 1941.
ROY E. HARDY J. EVERETT COLLINS Selectmen of Andover
ANDOVER, DECEMBER 16, 1941
ESSEX, SS.
Pursuant to the foregoing warrant, I, the subscriber, one of the Constables of the Town of Andover, have notified the inhabitants of said town, to meet at the time and place and for the purposes stated in said warrant, by posting a true and attested copy of the same, on the Town House, on each Schoolhouse and in no less
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than five other public places where bills and said notices are usually posted and by publication in the Andover Townsman. Said warrants have been posted and published seven days.
GEORGE N. SPARKS, Constable
At a legal meeting of the inhabitants of the Town of Andover qualified to vote in Primaries convened in the designated and appointed polling place in said Andover on the Sixteenth day of December, 1941 at noon, agreeably to the requirements of the foregoing warrant, they did bring in their votes as follows:
REPUBLICAN PARTY
CONGRESSMAN-SEVENTH DISTRICT (to fill a vacancy)
John Henry Garvin of 244 Andover St., Lawrence 82
C. F. Nelson Pratt of 4 Johnston Terr., Saugus 74
Blanks
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DEMOCRATIC PARTY
CONGRESSMAN -- SEVENTH DISTRICT (to fill a vacancy)
Edward D. Connery of 71 Marlboro St., Chelsea 1
Joseph B. Harrington of Winter Island Rd., Salem 30
Thomas J. Lane of 92 Abbott St., Lawrence 413
Arthur Michael McCarthy of 66 Summit Ave., Winthrop J. Fred Manning of 59 Laighton St., Lynn 31
Alphonsus E. McCarthy of 116 Green St., Lynn Frederick J. Myers of 81 Russell St., Boston George J. O'Shea of 40 Waverly St., Lynn V. Frederick Sano of 58 Broad St., Lynn Blanks
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Republican Vote-179 Democratic Vote -- 477 1
REPORT OF CLERK FOR REPUBLICAN PARTY
Polls opened at 12 M. Warden in charge, Mark M. Keane. Ballot box registered when polls opened 0000. Polls closed at 7 P.M. Ballot box registered when polls closed -656. Number of ballots received-840. Number of ballots returned-661. Number of ballots cast-179. Police officer on duty, John Campbell. Voted to count ballots at 12.45 A.M.
JOSEPH W. MCNALLY, Clerk
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REPORT OF CLERK FOR DEMOCRATIC PARTY
Polls opened at 12 M. Warden in charge, Mark M. Keane. Ballot box registered when polls opened 0000. Polls closed at 7 P.M. Ballot box registered when polls closed 656. Number of ballots received 787. Number of ballots returned 310. Number of ballots cast 477. Police Officer on duty, John Campbell. Voted to count ballots at 12.45 A.M.
JOSEPH W. MCNALLY, Clerk
The foregoing is a true copy of the warrant and of the clerk's report on the same, also a true record of the doings of the meeting.
Attest: GEORGE H. WINSLOW, Town Clerk
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Special Town Meeting DECEMBER 29, 1941
Agreeable to a warrant signed by the Selectmen December 19th, 1941, the inhabitants of the Town of Andover qualified to vote in Town Affairs met and assembled at the Memorial Audi- torium on Monday, the twenty-ninth day of December, 1941 at seven o'clock P.M.
ANDOVER, DECEMBER 29, 1941
ESSEX, SS.
Pursuant to the foregoing warrant, I, the subscriber, one of the Constables of the Town of Andover, have notified the inhabitants of said town to meet at the time and place and for the purposes stated in said warrant, by posting a true and attested copy of the same, on the Town House, on each Schoolhouse and in no less than five other public places where bills and notices are usually posted and by publication in the Lawrence Tribune. Said warrants have been posted and published seven days.
GEORGE N. SPARKS, Constable
Moderator Frederick Butler presided and called the meeting to order at seven o'clock and proceeded to take up ARTICLE 1- To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate $11,500.00 to be expended under the direction of the Board of Selectmen for Civilian Defense as authorized by Chapter 487, Acts of 1941.
Voted-to appropriate $11,500.00 from Reserve Fund to be expended under the direction of the Board of Selectmen for Civilian Defense as authorized by Chapter 487, Acts of 1941.
ARTICLE 2-To see if the town will authorize the Board of Public Works to purchase a large flat body heavy-duty dump truck, equipped with a twenty-ton winch and appropriate $6050.00 therefor, on petition of the Board of Public Works.
Voted-to authorize the Board of Public Works to purchase a large flat body heavy-duty dump truck, equipped with a twenty- ton winch and appropriate $6050.00 therefor.
Voted-to take up Articles 3 and 4 jointly :
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ARTICLE 3-To see if the town will vote to raise and appro- priate $1325.00 to be expended under the direction of the Board of Public Works for Civilian Defense as authorized by Chapter 487, Acts of 1941.
ARTICLE 4-To see if the town will vote to raise and appro- priate $2068.00 to be expended under the direction of the Tree Warden for Civilian Defense as authorized by Chapter 487, Acts of 1941.
Voted-to raise and appropriate $1600.00 to be expended under the direction of the Board of Public Works for Civilian- Defense as authorized by Chapter 487, Acts of 1941.
ARTICLE 5-To see if the town will vote to raise and appro- priate $549.60 to pay bills for tuition, contracted for during 1937, 1938 and 1939 with the Town of North Reading, on petition of the School Committee.
Voted-to refer to Annual Town Meeting.
ARTICLE 6-To see if the town will authorize the Board of Public Works to extend the water main from the corner of River Road and Brundrett Avenue along Brundrett Avenue, a distance of sixteen hundred feet to the property of Jacob Shlakis and ap- propriate the sum of $4925.00 therefor, on petition of Alghi Shlakis and others.
Voted-to indefinitely postpone.
ARTICLE 7-To see if the town will accept the completion of Princeton Avenue, Shawsheen Heights, running south from Corbett Street to a point or stone bound, as a public way and shown on plan on file with the Board of Survey, dated January, 1941, drawn by John Franklin, C.E., on petition of George R. Cairns and others.
Voted-to refer to Annual Town Meeting.
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