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Art. 12. Indefinitely postponed.
Art. 13. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of .. 350.00
Art. 14. Voted to accept Claremont Street as laid out by the Selectmen, as per plan on file.
Art. 15. Voted to raise and appropriate for
support of the poor the sum of .. 6,000.00
Art. 16. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of .. 250.00
Art. 17. Voted to appropriate for State Aid .. 3,000.00
For Military Aid (one-half to be raised by taxation) . 336.00 For Soldiers' Relief. 800.00
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Art. 18. Voted to raise and appropriate for the support and maintenance of the fire alarm system 400.00
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Art. 19. Voted to raise and appropriate for pay of men, including their poll taxes. $1,575.00 For general expenses and repairs 900.00
For new hose. 500.00
Arts. 20, 21 and 22. Indefinitely postponed.
Art. 23. Voted to raise and appropriate for extra pay of firemen. 300.00
Arts. 24 and 25. Postponed until next meeting.
Arts. 26, 27, 28 and 29. Indefinitely postponed.
Art. 30. Postponed until next meeting.
Art. 31. Voted to continue the night police and raise and appropriate the sum of. . 2,190.50
For the pay of same.
Art. 32. Indefinitely postponed.
Art. 33. Motion that the Selectmen be instructed to ap- point a Chief of Police to serve without pay.
Meeting adjourned to Tuesday, March 16, at 7.30 P. M. A true record. Attest :
H. A. MONK, Town Clerk.
Braintree, March 16, 1909.
The Town met at 7.30 o'clock P. M. in accordance with adjournment from March 8th, Moderator Rhoades in the chair. Article 33. Voted to lay this article on the table.
Art. 4. Voted to take up Article 4.
The committee appointed at the last annual town meeting to consider the matter of sewerage by its chairman, Dr. Henry L. Dearing, read the report of that committee, and also asked the privilege for the engineer employed by said committee to also read his report.
Several motions and substitute motions were offered.
Voted to receive the report of the committee.
Voted to lay the whole matter on the table: 126 in the affirmative; 96 in the negative. Notice given by Dr. Dearing and others, of intention to move a consideration.
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Voted that at 10.10 o'clock this meeting stand adjourned to next Monday, March 22, at 7.45 o'clock P. M.
Art. 46. Voted to take up Article 46.
Voted to adjourn to Monday, March 22, at 7.45 o'clock P. M.
A true record. Attest :
H. A. MONK, Town Clerk.
Braintree, March 22, 1909.
The Town met in accordance with adjournment from March 16th, Moderator Rhoades in the chair.
Article 46 under consideration. Voted that the Town pay over to the Trustees of the Thayer Public Library until the fur- ther order of the Town, the income from the Trust Fund held by it under the will of Nathaniel H. Hunt, the same to be ex- pended for books as set forth in said will. The payment of said interest money or income shall be made by the Town Treasurer and the receipt of the treasurer of said library trustees shall exonerate him from all further liability.
Art. 4. Voted to take up Article 4.
Motion made to take the matter of sewerage from the table.
Voted that all action on the sewerage question be indefi- nitely postponed.
Voted to lay Article 4 on the table.
Voted that when this meeting adjourn it be to Monday, March 29, at 7.45 o'clock P. M.
Arts. 24, 25 and 30. Voted to take up Articles 24, 25 and 30 jointly. A motion and a substitute were being considered at time of adjournment.
Voted to adjourn to meet Monday, March 29, at 7.45 o'clock P. M.
A true record. Attest :
H. A. MONK, Town Clerk.
Braintree, March 29, 1909.
The Town met in accordance with adjournment from March 22d, Moderator Herbert A. Rhoades in the chair.
Article 6. By special assignment for this date the com- mittee appointed to consider the subject of a new school building
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in Precinct Three presented their report and the same was read by its chairman. Voted to receive the report of the committee. Voted that for the purpose of building a new schoolhouse in the east part of the town, furnishing the same complete, and ready for occupation and purchasing land therefor, a sum not exceed- ing twenty-five thousand dollars be appropriated, said sum to be expended under the direction of a special committee of seven to be appointed by the Moderator, which committee shall procure plans and shall submit the same to the citizens of the Town for their inspection at a meeting to be called by said building com- mittee before a plan is finally selected.
Under authority conferred by this vote the Moderator ap- pointed the same gentlemen to serve as a building committee.
A motion was made by Mr. Avery to instruct the Town Treasurer to borrow $25,000.
Amendment offered by Mr. Holbrook that the sum author- ized to be borrowed be $24,000.
Voted to refer the schoolhouse matter back to the committee with instructions to procure plans and submit them to the Town at an adjournment of this meeting not later than three weeks from tonight; 134 in the affirmative; 87 in the negative.
Arts. 24, 25 and 30. Voted that a committee of nine be appointed by the Moderator, three from each Precinct, and to include the Moderator, to take into consideration the whole question of Electric Lighting and operation and report at an adjournment of this meeting not later than three weeks from tonight. Moderator appointed William F. Rogers, Oakes A. Bridgham, Charles B. Cummings, Frederick W. McCarter, Henry E. Reynolds, Charles G. Jordan, Charles E. Dexter, David G. Doane and Herbert A. Rhoades.
Art. 35. Voted to instruct the Water Commissioners to allow the Tree Warden's Dept. to use the hydrants for spraying trees, under the direction of the Superintendent of the Water Dept.
Voted to appropriate for hydrant service. $5,125.00 Art. 34. Voted to appropriate for court fees and expenses. 100.00
Art. 36. Voted to appropriate for Water Loan Sinking Fund. 5,120.00
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Voted that the salaries of the Water Commissioners be paid from the revenue of the Water Dept.
Art. 37. Relating to filtering water of Great Pond, re- ferred to committee already appointed to investigate the Electric Lighting.
Art. 42. Voted to raise and appropriate for pay of Town Officers. $3,810.00 Art. 43. Voted to raise and appropriate for miscellaneous expenses. 4,500.00 Art. 44. Voted to raise and appropriate, to assist Post 87, G. A. R. on Memorial Day .. ... 200.00 Art. 45. Voted to raise and appropriate for Thayer Public Library 1,200.00
Voted to raise and appropriate for Distribution of Books. 100.00
Art. 48. Voted to raise and appropriate. .. Plus the revenue; for supplies and repairs of Town Hall.
475.00
Voted to reappropriate the unexpended balance $100.00 of last year for repairs on piano.
Voted to raise and appropriate for salary of Janitor. 700.00
Art. 49. Voted to raise and appropriate for In- surance on Town Buildings 1,786.00
Art. 51. Voted to raise and appropriate for fencing Town lands. 105.00
Art. 52. Voted to raise and appropriate for abatement of taxes. 1,000.00
Art. 54. Voted to raise and appropriate for Tree Warden's Dept. 2,319.73
Art. 55. Voted to raise and appropriate to be expended by the Board of Health. 750.00
Art. 57. Voted to raise and appropriate for Plain Street Cemetery 50.00
Voted that this meeting now adjourn to Tuesday, April 20th, at 7.45 o'clock P. M.
A true record. Attest :
H. A. MONK, Town Clerk.
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WARRANT FOR SPECIAL TOWN MEETING.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Norfolk ss. To either of the Constables of the Town of Brain-
tree, Greeting :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are hereby directed to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Braintree, qualified to vote in town affairs, to meet at the Town Hall, in said Braintree, on Tuesday, the twentieth day of April, 1909, at 7.30 o'clock P. M., to act on the following Articles, viz. :
Article 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meet- ing.
Article 2. To see if the Town will vote to purchase the homestead of the late T. Haven Dearing.
Also to see if the Town will vote to widen the street at this corner and raise and appropriate such sums of money as may be needed for the same.
You are to give notice of this meeting by posting true and attested copies of this warrant in not less than nine public places in this town, seven days at least before the time of said meeting, and by publishing the same once in the Braintree Observer-Reporter and Braintree Bee.
Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk before the time of said meeting.
Given under our hands at Braintree this Twelfth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nine.
R. ALLEN GAGE, HENRY M. STORM, B. HERBERT WOODSUM,
A true copy. Attest : Selectmen of Braintree. CHARLES A. HOBART, Constable of Braintree.
SPECIAL TOWN MEETING.
Braintree, April 20, 1909.
The Town met in accordance with the foregoing warrant, at the time and place specified. The Town Clerk called the meeting to order and read the warrant.
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Art. 1. By ballot, with the use of the check lists, Mr. Herbert A. Rhoades was chosen Moderator and was sworn by the Town Clerk.
Art. 2. Taken up. Voted to indefinitely postpone.
Voted that this meeting now adjourn.
A true record. Attest :
H. A. MONK, Town Clerk.
Braintree, April 20, 1909.
The Town met in accordance with the adjournment from March 29th, Moderator Rhoades in the chair.
Art. 6. The Schoolhouse Committee reported back to the Town and presented several plans for a school building.
Voted to accept the plans drawn by Hurd and Gore now on exhibition in this hall as the plans for the erection of a school building in Precinct 3; provided said building can be completed within the appropriation.
Voted by a yes and no vote, with the use of the check lists, that the Town Treasurer be and is hereby authorized under the direction of a majority of the Selectmen to issue the coupon notes of the Town for the aggregate sum of $25,000 for the purpose of erecting a new school building in Precinct 3 and the purchase of a lot of land therefor; said notes to be for the sum of $1,000 each, to bear interest at a rate not exceeding 4 per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually, to bear the authenti- cating certification of the City Trust Co. of Boston, to be dated June 1, 1909, and to be payable on the first day of June each year, as follows: Two notes of one thousand dollars ($1,000) each in the years 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919. One note of one thousand dollars ($1,000) in the years 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924.
Any money not used for the purpose named in this vote to- gether with any premium received in the sale of said notes shall be applied towards the payment of the first maturing note, 82 voting in the affirmative and one in the negative.
Voted to add Herbert F. Kneeland and Henry M. Storm to the Building Committee, thus making the number of the com- mittee nine.
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Voted that the selection of a site for said schoolhouse be re- ferred to the Building Committee with full power to act.
Voted that this meeting now adjourn until Monday, April 26th, at 7.45 o'clock P. M.
A true record. Attest :
H. A. MONK, Town Clerk.
Braintree, April 26, 1909.
The Town met in accordance with adjournment from April 20th, Moderator in the chair.
Art. 6. The Moderator stated that he had received notice of an intention to move a reconsideration of the vote passed by the Town authorizing the Town Treasurer to issue the notes of the Town for the sum of $25,000 to build a schoolhouse in Pre- cinct three.
Art. 4. Taken up. Under this article the Committee ap- pointed to inquire into the matter of Electric Lighting made a partial report with some recommendations.
Voted to receive the report and that its consideration be deferred until four weeks from tonight, at which time the Com- mittee will make a more extended report.
Art. 41. Voted to appropriate for the payment of Notes : Electric Light note $3,400.00
Penniman School note. 2,500.00
Noah Torrey School note 3,000.00
Voted to appropriate for payment of interest :
N. H. Hunt note, 6 months. $10,000.00 225.00
N. H. Hunt note, 6 months
10,000.00 200.00
Thayer Library, 12 months. 10,000.00 400.00
Penniman School, 12 months. 2,500.00
87.50
Noah Torrey School, 6 months ....
27,000.00
489.37
Noah Torrey School, 6 months ....
24,000.00
435.00
Electric Light, bonds, 12 months ..
16,500.00
660.00
Electric Light, notes, 12 months ...
8,400.00
294.00
Stetson, note, 12 months
2,500.00
100.00
Discount on notes to be issued in an- ticipation of taxes
1,700.00
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Voted that this meeting now adjourn to Monday, May 24th, at 7.45 o'clock P. M.
A true record. Attest :
H. A. MONK, Town Clerk.
Braintree, May 24, 1909.
The Town met in accordance with adjournment from April 26th, Moderator Rhoades in the chair.
Art. 38. Taken up, motion made to indefinitely postpone. Substitute offered by Mr. Stevens that the Highway Department and Tree Warden's Department be instructed to pay the Water Department for water used in their respective Departments.
Voted that this meeting adjourn to 8.30 o'clock; meeting called to order.
Voted to take up Article 4.
The committee appointed to investigate the Electric Light Department rendered their report in writing with recommenda- tions (see Town Clerk's files) .
Voted that this meeting adjourns for two minutes ; meet- ing called to order.
Voted to accept the report of the Committee on Electric Light plant and the thanks of the Town be extended them for their services.
Voted that this meeting adjourn for two minutes; meeting called to order.
Voted to adjourn for one minute; meeting called to order.
Voted that at five minutes past ten o'clock this meeting stand adjourned until Tuesday, June 1st, at 7.30 o'clock P. M.
Voted that the committee be instructed to cause their report together with information obtained from the Town of Concord to be published in the next issue of the local newspapers.
Voted that the further consideration of the report be laid on the table.
Art. 24. Voted that the income from private consumers plus eighty-five hundred dollars ($8,500) be appropriated for the operation and maintenance and repairs on the plant.
For connecting new consumers. $1,500.00
For Depreciation Fund. 4,221.51
For Sinking Fund. 430.00
The above $14,651 51-100 to be included in the tax levy.
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Art. 4. Voted that a committee of five be appointed to codify the Town By-Laws and report at the next annual meeting. Moderator appointed Albert E. Avery, Atherton N. Hunt, Philip H. Sullivan, William F. Rogers and Charles E. Dexter.
Voted that the Moderator appoint a committee of fifteen as an appropriation committee to consider all articles involving the expenditure of money, including the warrant for the next annual meeting: James W. Colbert, Stafford S. Bridgham, William H. Cuff, Gilbert V. Pennock, Winfred A. Torrey, Wal- ter O. Hastings, George E. Williams, Henry F. Arnold, William C. Harrison, Henry E. Reynolds, Albert E. Avery, George F. Hussey, George R. Dobson, William P. Kelley and Luther O. Crocker appointed.
Meeting declared adjourned to June 1st at 7.30 o'clock P. M.
A true record. Attest :
H. A. MONK, Town Clerk.
WARRANT FOR SPECIAL TOWN MEETING.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Norfolk ss. To either of the Constables of the Town of
Braintree, Greeting :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby directed to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Braintree, qualified to vote in town affairs, to meet at the Town Hall, in said Braintree, on Monday, the twenty-fourth day of May, 1909, at 7.30 o'clock P. M., to act on the following Articles, viz. :
Art. 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting.
Art. 2. To see if the Town will vote to accept the pro- visions of Section 10, of Chapter 454 of the Acts of 1893, and of Section 19 of Chapter 34 of the Revised Laws of Massachu- setts, or any previous or subsequent acts with reference to the establishment and choice of a Municipal Lighting Board, to consist of three citizens of the Town.
Art. 3. To see if the Town will vote to proceed to elect by ballot or otherwise, in accordance with any acts or statutory provisions accepted by the Town, a Municipal Lighting Board,
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to consist of three citizens of the Town, one of whom shall be chosen for one year, one for two years and one for three years.
Art. 4. To see if the Town will vote a salary to the mem- bers of such Municipal Lighting Board, if any, as may be chosen in pursuance of the foregoing articles and raise and appropriate a sum of money for the same.
Art. 5. To see whether the Town will vote to amend the vote passed at the Town Meeting on April 20, 1909, authorizing the issuance of $25,000, notes for the purpose of erecting a new school building in Precinct 3, and of purchasing a lot of land therefor, or will take any action relating thereto.
Art. 6. To see whether the Town will vote to amend the vote passed at the Town Meeting March 29, 1909, appropriating $25,000, for erecting a schoolhouse building in Precinct 3, fur- nishing the same, and purchasing land therefor, or will take any action relating thereto.
Art. 7. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate a sum of money to make some extraordinary repairs on the Penniman schoolhouse.
You are to give notice of this meeting by posting true and attested copies of this warrant in not less than nine public places in this town seven days at least before the time of said meet- ing and by publishing the same once in the Braintree Observer- Reporter and Braintree Bee.
Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk before the time of said meeting.
Given under our hands at Braintree this fourteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nine.
R. ALLEN GAGE, HENRY M. STORM, B. HERBERT WOODSUM, Selectmen of Braintree.
A true copy. Attest :
CHARLES A. HOBART, Constable of Braintree.
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SPECIAL TOWN MEETING.
Braintree, May 24, 1909.
The Town met in accordance with the foregoing warrant. at the time and place specified. The meeting was called to order and the warrant read by the Town Clerk.
Article 1. By ballot with the use of the check lists, Mr. Herbert A. Rhoades was elected Moderator and sworn by the Town Clerk.
Art. 7. Voted to take up article seven.
Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $500 to repair the roof of the Penniman School House.
Art. 5. Taken up. Voted to rescind the vote passed at the Town meeting on April 20th by which the issuance of $25,000 of notes was authorized and to substitute for said rescinded vote the following, namely: The Town Treasurer is hereby author- ized under the direction of a majority of the Selectmen, to issue coupon notes of the Town for the aggregate sum of $25,000, for the purpose of building a new schoolhouse in precinct 3, fur- nishing the same complete and ready for occupation, and pur- chasing land therefor, said notes to be for $1,000 each, to bear interest at a rate not exceeding 4 per cent. per annum payable semi-annually, to bear the authenticating certification of the City Trust Company of Boston, to be dated June 1, 1909, and to be payable on the first day of June of each year as follows: Three- notes in each of the years 1910 to 1914 inclusive, and two notes in each of the years 1915 to 1919 inclusive. Any money not used for the purposes named in this, vote, together with any premium received in the sale of said notes, shall be applied towards the payment of the first maturing note. The foregoing vote was taken by a yea and nay vote, with the use of the check lists, sixty-two voting in the affirmative and one in the negative.
Art. 6. Taken up. Voted to indefinitely postpone all action under this article.
Voted that this meeting adjourn until 9 o'clock.
Meeting called to order.
Voted to verify the vote previously passed appropriating $500 to repair the roof of the Penniman schoolhouse to conform to the provisions of the Town By-Laws. One hundred voted in the affirmative and none in the negative.
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Voted to adjourn to 9.30 o'clock.
Meeting called to order.
Voted to adjourn to 9.50 o'clock.
Meeting called to order.
Voted to adjourn to Tuesday, June 1st, at 7.45 P. M.
A true record. Attest :
H. A. MONK, Town Clerk.
Braintree, June 1, 1909.
The Town met in accordance with adjournment from May 24, Moderator Rhoades in the chair. Voted to adjourn until 9 o'clock unless the business of the Annual Meeting is sooner completed.
Meeting called to order at 9 o'clock.
Several adjournments.
Called to order at 9.58.
Art. 3. Taken up. Voted to proceed to ballot for three Electric Light Commissioners, one for one year, one for two years, one for three years.
Voted that a committee of five be appointed to receive, assort and count the votes.
Messrs. Hunt, Keating, Hawes, Oakman and South appointed.
Voted that the polls close up at 10.55 o'clock P. M.
The ballot resulted in the election of Charles T. Crane for one year, Norton P. Potter for two years, and Alexander A. Carson for three years.
Total number of ballots cast 169.
Art. 4. Voted that the salary of the Electric Light Com- missioners be $100 per year each, to be paid from the revenue of the Electric Light Department, 85 voted in the affirmative, none in the negative.
Art. 2. Indefinitely postponed.
Voted, that it is the sense of this meeting that the terms of office of the Electric Light Commissioners shall date from the Annual Meeting of 1909.
Voted that this meeting adjourn sine die.
A true record. Attest :
H. A. MONK, Town Clerk.
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Braintree, June 1, 1909.
The Town met in accordance with adjournment from May 24th, Moderator Rhoades in the chair.
Meeting opened at 7.30 o'clock P. M.
The further consideration of the Electric Light Committee's Report before the meeting.
The meeting adjourned from time to time until 10.10 o'clock P. M.
The meeting called to order at 10.10 o'clock P. M.
Voted to adjourn to Monday, June 7th, at 7.45 o'clock P. M. A true record. Attest :
H. A. MONK, Town Clerk.
Braintree, June 7, 1909.
The Town met in accordance with adjournment from June 1st, Moderator Rhoades in the chair.
Article 4. Voted that the recommendations contained in the report of the Electric Lighting Committee be referred to the Electric Light Commissioners and that further consideration by this meeting be indefinitely postponed.
Voted that a committee of six be appointed by the Moder- ator to take up the whole question of sewerage and secure, if possible, such legislation as would permit the Town to enter the Metropolitan District and report to the next Annual Town Meeting. The Moderator appointed the members of the Board of Health, viz., Henry L. Dearing, C. A. Sullivan, F. Herbert Gile and also Hon. A. E. Avery, G. D. Willis and W. E. May- bury to serve as sewerage committee.
Art. 25. Voted to refer this matter to the Municipal Lighting Board.
Art. 30. Voted to refer this matter to the Municipal Lighting Board.
Art. 38. Voted that the Highway Department and the Tree Warden's Department be required to pay the Water Depart- ment for the water used by them at cost.
Art. 42. Voted that the Moderator be paid the sum of $25 for his services, the same to be paid from the appropriation for Town Officers.
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Art. 39. Indefinitely postponed.
Art. 40. Voted that for the purpose of the extension of the Water System, southerly in Washington Street from its present termination to the Holbrook and Braintree town line, the Town Treasurer is hereby authorized under the direction of a majority of the Selectmen and with the approval of the Board of Water Commissioners to issue the notes of the Town to be denominated on the face thereof Braintree Water Loan, Act of 1905, for the aggregate sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) in accordance with the Acts of 1906, Chapter 142, said notes to be for the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000) each, to be dated July 15th, 1909, inclusive and to bear interest at a rate not exceeding four per cent. (4 per cent) per annum.
Any money not expended for the purpose above named shall be used towards the payment of the first maturing note.
The Board of Water Commissioners are hereby directed to pay the interest accruing on said notes out of their revenue.
The foregoing vote was taken by a yea and nay ballot, with the use of the check lists, 81 votes in the affirmative, 3 in the negative.
Voted that the Board of Water Commissioners confer with the Water Boards of Randolph and Holbrook to see if arrange- ments can be made with them to furnish water for the May- flower Park District.
Art. 50. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $200 to be expended on the Town lands.
Art. 53. Voted to charge interest at the rate of six per cent. per annum on all taxes remaining unpaid after December 1st, 1909.
Art. 56. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $300 to pay the salaries of the Board of Health.
Art. 58. Indefinitely postponed.
Art. 4. Voted that the accounts of all Departments be closed December 31, 1909, and that the Selectmen be instructed to have the Town Reports delivered to those entitled to receive them not later than Feb. 10, 1910.
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