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Board of Health,
Sirs :- As agent of the Board of Health, Precincts 2 and 3, I have to report the following :
Measles 107
Diphtheria 1
Scarlet Fever 1
Infantile Paralysis 1
Tuberculosis 1
Pulmonary Pneumonia. 1
I wish to extend to Dr. F. E. Varney my personal thanks for his assistance in carrying out this work.
JAMES P. DUNIGAN,
Agent.
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REPORT OF THE CEMETERY COMMISSIONERS.
The Cemetery Commissioners submit their annual report.
The town of Chelmsford lost a valuable public servant through the death of Mr. James S. Byam, Clerk of the Cemetery Commission.
Mrs. Louise Byam was appointed to fill out the unexpired term of Mr. Byam.
The different cemeteries have been given good care during the year. There has been a considerable increase in the number of lots placed under perpetual care.
Forefathers has been kept in its usual good condition.
Pine Ridge has had new avenues and lots staked out.
Hart Pond Cemetery has been improved by the filling of sunken graves and straightening of stones.
A fence has been built around the new section of the West Cemetery -and one lot sold there.
Riverside Cemetery has been much improved during the year by several new lots being filled and sodded and the completion of the North Drive.
C. F. SCRIBNER, B. C. DEAN,
Commissioners.
REPORT OF THE FOREST WARDEN.
Chelmsford, Mass., January 1, 1921.
Board of Selectmen,
Gentlemen :
During the year, 1920, there were fifty-five forest and grass fires in town, of which twenty-five were railroad fires and the remainder started from various causes. The Deputy Wardens have also assisted at several chimney, building and auto fires.
The expense of extinguishing the fires together with the cost of supplies, etc., has been $418.06 of which $82.98 has been paid or is due the town by parties responsible for the fires.
About four hundred fifty permits were issued for fires between March 1st and December 1st.
Don't forget the Slash Law which requires you to clear the slash forty feet away from your neighbors lot or the highway.
A. C. PERHAM,
Forest Warden.
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REPORT OF INSPECTOR OF SLAUGHTERING.
Chelmsford, Mass., January 13, 1921.
Board of Health :
Gentlemen :-
The following number of animals have been slaughtered by licensed butchers, owners on their own premises and inspected by me.
125 cattle; 423 calves ; 1862 hogs; 3 sheep.
Condemned : 9 cattle ; 4 calves ; 7 hogs : And approximately 450 lbs. of meat for various reasons.
All inspections have been reported to the State authorities as required. Respectfully submitted,
W. S. HALL,
Inspector.
REPORT OF INSPECTOR OF ANIMALS.
Chelmsford, Mass., January 1, 1921.
Board of Selectmen -- Gentlemen :
During the year 1920 there have been no outbreaks of contagious diseases among horses or dogs, although several suspected cases were reported and investigated.
In the early spring, the cattle, sheep and swine were inspected at 203 different stables which contained 1098 cattle, 418 swine, 11 sheep and one goat. 23 cattle were quarantined as tuberculous. 22 of which were con- demned and killed and one released. 89 cows and 11 calves from out of the state, have been identified and released upon arrival in town. All rules and regulations relative to disinfection of infected stables have been enforced as well as all of the so-called "follow up" work.
ARNOLD C. PERHAM, Inspector.
REPORT OF FISH AND GAME WARDEN.
Chelmsford, Mass., December 31, 1920.
Chairman and Board of Selectmen, Chelmsford, Mass. :
Licenses examined 39
Prosecutions
0
Dogs chasing deer 2
Boys reprimanded 7
Boys reported to parents. 2
Lbs. of grain fed to birds, own expense. 95
Grain supplied by State. 0
Complaints attended to 7
Total days field work. 25
Respectfully submitted,
C. FREMONT MORSE, Fish and Game Warden.
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REPORT OF BOARD OF FIRE ENGINEERS.
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Board of Selectmen :
Gentlemen :-- During the year of 1920 the Centre Fire Department has answered six bell alarms, five of which were for buildings and one for a brush fire.
The Department also answered six telephone alarms, all chimney fires, except one, which was a building.
The Department has done very good work considering the equipment with which they have to work. We have no doubt that if given proper equipment, we would have a very efficient department.
We again caution the people to give their chimneys a little attention and avoid fires which are liable to cause considerable property loss.
In case of fire call by telephone the following, plainly giving name, location, whether grass or house fire.
Night C. O. Robbins-Tel. 5204-W Walter Fletcher-Tel. 4028-Y
Daytime C. O. Robbins-Tel. 5204-W Chelmsford Garage-Tel. 5690 Falls Drug Store-Tel. 8703-R S. W. Parkhurst-Tel. 8703-M
Respectfully submitted,
W. S. FLETCHER, Chief. W. T. JOHNSON, Capt. G. H. MORTON, Lieut.
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Warrant for Annual Town Meeting
FEBRUARY 7, 1921 AND FEBRUARY 14, 1921.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Middlesex, ss.
To Fred I. Vinal, a Special Police Officer of the Town of Chelmsford : Greeting :
In the name of the Commonwealth aforesaid you are hereby required to notify and warn the legal voters of said Chelmsford to meet in their several Polling Places, viz: Precinct 1, Town Hall, Chelmsford Centre ; Precinct 2, Town Hall, North Chelmsford; Precinct 3, Historical Hall, West Chelmsford ; Precinct 4, School House, East Chelmsford ; on Monday, the seventh day of February, 1921, being the first Monday in said month, at 12 o'clock noon, for the following purposes :
To bring in their votes for the following officers: Town Clerk for 3 years, 1 Selectman for 3 years, 1 Overseer of the Poor for 3 pears, 1 Assessor for 3 years, Town Treasurer and Collector of Taxes, for 1 year, 1 Member of Board of Health for 3 years, 1 Member of Board of Health for 2 years, 1 Member of Board of Health for 1 year, 1 Constable for 1 year, 1 School Committeeman for 3 years, 1 School Committeeman for 2 years, 2 Trustees of Adams Library for 3 years, Tree Warden for 1 year, 1 Sinking Fund Commissioner for 3 years, 1 Cemetery Commissioner for 3 years, 1 Cemetery Commissioner for 1 year, 1 Park Commissioner for 3 years, all on one ballot, and to vote on the following question : "Shall licenses be granted for the sale of certain non-intoxicating beverages in this town?"
(The polls will be open from 12 M. to 8 P. M.)
And to meet in the Town Hall at Chelmsford Centre on the following Monday, the fourteenth Day of February, 1921, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, then and there to act upon the following Articles, viz :
ARTICLE 1. To choose all other Town officers necessary to be chosen by hand vote; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 2. To hear reports of Town officers and committees; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 3. To raise and appropriate such sums of money as may be required to defray Town charges for the current year.
ARTICLE 4. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to act as its agent in any suit or suits which may arise during the current year ; also in such other matters as may arise requiring in their judgment the action of such agent, and to employ counsel therefor.
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ARTICLE 5. To see if the Town will authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money in anticipation of the revenue of the current financial year.
ARTICLE 6. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to contract with the Lowell Electric Light Corporation, at the prevailing price per light, for eighty-one lights in addition to the number previously contracted for, said lights to be distributed along the following public ways, viz: Fourteen lights on Riverneck Road; nine lights on High Street, Hunt Road, and Littleton Street; seven lights on Boston Road ; eight lights on Russell's Mill Road ; five lights on Parkhurst Road ; five lights on Old Westford Road from City line to North Road ; four lights on Boulder Avenue and Old Westford Road; four lights on Park Road beginning at Wood's Corner, South Chelmsford ; three lights on Westford Road ; nine lights on West Chelmsford Road ; two lights on Turnpike Road; one light on Subway; one light on Bridge Street : one light on Keats Street; one light on Littleton Street ; one light on Depot Street, North Chelmsford; one light at corner of Holt and Washington Streets; one light at corner of James and John Streets; one light on South Street; and three lights on Acton Road : or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 7. To see of the Town will petition the Director of Accounts of the Department of Corporations and Taxation for the installation of an accounting` system in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 598 of the Acts of 1910 as amended ; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 8. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate a sum not exceeding Four Thousand Dollars with which to buy a motor fire chemical apparatus for the North Village; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 9. To see if the Town will appoint a committee to investigate and report as to a site for a fire house at West Chelmsford and the probable cost of the land and the erection thereon of a suitable building in which to house the apparatus and which will serve as a meeting place for the West Chelmsford Fire Department ; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 10. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate a sum not exceeding Six Hundred Dollars for the purpose of supplying the West Chelmsford Fire Department with additional fire equipment; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 11. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to dispose of a wood-sawing apparatus, being part of the equipment of the Moth Department ; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 12. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Two Hundred Dollars, or some other amount, and elect a director for demonstration work in agriculture and home economics, the money to be expended by, and the director to serve in co-operation with, the County Trustees for Aid to Agriculture and Home Economics, under the provisions of Chapter 273, General Acts of 1918 and any amendments thereof; or act in relation thereto.
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ARTICLE 13. To see if the Town will appropriate from money already in the hands of the Treasurer a sum not exceeding Thirty-five Hundred Dollars with which to meet unpaid bills of 1920; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 14. To see if the Town will vote to borrow a sum not exceeding Twelve Thousand Dollars, or what other sum, for the purpose of continuing construction of the North Road and of constructing the Acton Road and the Groton Road ; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 15. To receive the report of the Special Committee appointed under Articles 5 and 6 of the warrant for the Special Town Meeting held on June 11, 1920, to purchase a lot of land owned by J. Adams Bartlett for a site for a school house at the Westlands, so-called, and to procure plans and specifications for a four-room school building at said Westlands, and to raise and appropriate a sufficient sum to meet the expenses incurred by them for plans, specifications, or otherwise ; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 16. To see if the Town will vote to build a four-room school house at the Westlands, so called, at an expense for the building and the equipment thereof not exceeding Fifty Thousand Dollars, and appoint a Building Committee ; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 17. In the event of affirmative action under Article 16, to see if the Town will vote to raise or borrow and appropriate a sum not exceeding Fifty Thousand Dollars with which to build and equip a four-room school house at the Westlands, so called ; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 18. In the event of affirmative action under Article 16, to see if the Town will appropriate out of unexpended appropriations in the Town Treasury at the end of the fiscal year of 1920 a sum not exceeding Five Thousand Dollars with which to meet a part of the expense of building and equipping a new school house at the Westlands, so called ; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 19. To see if the Town will raise or appropriate out of unexpended appropriations in the Town Treasury at the end of the fiscal year of 1920 a sum not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars for the purpose of clearing from scrub and improving the land recently purchased as a site for a school house at the Westlands, so called ; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 20. To see if the Town will accept and allow Wightman Street as laid out by the Selectmen on January 29, 1921, as described in their report duly filed in the Town Clerk's office and shown on the plan therein referred to; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 21. To see if the Town will accept and allow Maple Avenue as laid out by the Selectmen on January 29, 1921, as described in their report duly filed in the Town Clerk's office and shown on the plan therein referred to; or act in relation thereto.
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ARTICLE 22. To see if the Town will accept and allow Sunset Avenue as laid out by the Selectmen an January 29, 1921, as described in their report duly filed in the Town Clerk's office and shown on the plan therein referred to; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 23. To see if the Town will accept and allow Sylvan Avenue as laid out by the Selectmen on January 29, 1921, as described in their report duly filed in the Town Clerk's office and shown on the plan therein referred to; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 24. To see if the Town will accept and allow Subway Avenue as laid out by the Selectmen on January 29, 1921, as described in their report duly filed in the Town Clerk's office and shown on the plan therein referred to; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 25. To see if the Town will accept and allow Subway Extension as laid out by the Selectmen on January 29, 1921, as described in their report duly filed in the Town Clerk's office and shown on the plan therein referred to; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 26. To see if the Town will vote to discontinue that part of the Subway, so called, in said town extending from the easterly line of the Stearns land, so called, to Chelmsford Street, together with so much, if any, of the ancient town way accepted by the Town on or about Sept. 27, 1797 and recorded in the Highway Book, Page 31, as is situated between said Stearns land and said Chelmsford Street and is not included in said Subway ; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 27. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate a sum not exceeding Sixteen Hundred Dollars for the purpose of straightening, grading, and improving the Subway, so called; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 28. To see if the Town will accept a legacy in the will of the late Orra A. G. Flint which has already been allowed or is now pending for allowance in the Probate Court for the County of Worcester, made in terms to the Adams Library of Chelmsford, of Two Thousand Dollars to be known as the George Fund, upon the trusts in said will set forth; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 29. To see if the Town will accept a legacy in the will of the said Orra A. G. Flint, made in terms to the said Adams Library, of the sum of One Thousand Dollars, in trust among other things for the perpetual care of the Aaron George Cemetery Lot in the Cemetery at North Chelmsford, and upon the conditions in said will set forth ; also certain books specified in said will; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 30. To see if the Town will accept a legacy in the will of said Orra A. G. Flint, made in terms to the said Adams Library, upon the terms and conditions in said will set forth; or act in relation thereto.
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AND YOU ARE DIRECTED to serve this Warrant by posting attested copies thereof at the Post Offices in the Centre of the Town, South Chelmsford, North Chelmsford, and West Chelmsford, and at the School House, East Chelmsford, seven days at least before the time appointed for holding said meeting.
HEREOF FAIL NOT, and make return of this Warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk, at the time and place of holding the first meeting aforesaid.
Given under our hands this twenty-fourth day of January, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and twenty-one.
WILLIAM E. BELLEVILLE, GEORGE W. DAY, JAMES P. DUNIGAN,
Selectmen of Chelmsford.
A true copy. ATTEST :
FRED I. VINAL, Special Police Officer of the Town of Chelmsford.
January 24, 1921.
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Report of the Finance Committee
Chelmsford, Mass., January 22, 1921.
To the Voters and Taxpayers of Chelmsford :
The Finance Committee has heard the recommendations of the Town Officers in the matter of appropriations for the year 1921, and has carefully considered them, as well as the articles of the Warrant for the Annual Town Meeting wherein it is proposed to raise sums of money.
We recommend that the following amounts be raised and appropriated :
SCHOOLS :
Teachers
$7,500.00
Janitors
6,420.00
Janitors' Supplies 1,225.00
Transportation
9,700.00
Books and Supplies
4,800.00
New Equipment
1,200.00
Health
400.00
Upkeep and Repairs of Buildings
4,000.00
Fuel
7,000.00
Light and Power
800.00
Administration
750.00
Administration Incidentals
300.00
Superintendent
2,400.00
EXECUTIVE :
Moderator
10.00
Selectmen's Salaries
1,100.00
Maintenance
200.00
LEGAL :
Town Counsel
400.00
FINANCIAL :
Treasurer and Tax Collector's Salary
1,200.00
Maintenance
225.00
Town Clerk and Accountant's Salary
1,800.00
Maintenance
500.00
Assessors' Salaries and Expenses
1,200.00
Maintenance
200.00
Appraisers' Salaries
15.00
Maintenance
2.25
Auditors' Salaries
75.00
Election Expenses and Registrars' Salaries
300.00
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PUBLIC PROTECTION :
Board of Health Salaries
$ 225.00
Agents' Salaries
100.00
Aid
500.00
Maintenance
150.00
Fire Department
700.00
Police Department
1,500.00
Moth Department
2,568.62
Forest Warden
500.00
Tree Warden
150.00
Game Warden
100.00
INSPECTION :
Meat Inspection
700.00
Cattle Inspection
200.00
Sealer of Weights and Measures
150.00
SOLDIERS' RELIEF
400.00
CHARITIES :
Overseers of Poor Salaries.
225.00
Maintenance
50.00
Almhouse Poor
4,500.00
Outside Poor
(plus receipts )
4,000.00
LIBRARIES :
Centre Library
2,000.00
North Library
1,200.00
CEMETERIES :
Commissioners' Salaries
90.00
Care and Improvements.
1,000.00
Hedge at Forefather's Cemetery
150.00
GENERAL :
Public Parks
700.00
Street Lighting
8,324.00
Village Clock
30.00
Memorial Day
200.00
Insurance (Sinking Fund)
500.00
Industrial School
(plus receipts )
1,000.00
Treasurer's Bond
220.00
Printing and Delivering Town Reports
750.00
North Chelmsford Fire District.
750.00
Chelmsford Water District.
750.00
Band Concerts
250.00
High School Grading (plus the unexpended balance of 1920) 1,200.00
PUBLIC BUILDINGS :
Janitor Service
400.00
Fuel, Light and Water
750.00
Repairs and Furniture.
1,000.00
Maintenance
25.00
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HIGHWAYS :
Superintendent's Salary
$2,500.00
Middlesex Street 2,000.00
Dunstable Road 100.00
Dunstable Road to Woods Corner ..
200.00
West Chelmsford Road (plus the unexpended balance of 1920) 2,000.00
Billerica Road
500.00
River Neck Road
500.00
Russell Mill Road.
500.00
Proctor Road
700.00
School St. (W. Chelmsford, rebuilding wall)
300.00
Chelmsford St. (Macadam)
3,000.00
General Highways
6,000.00
Road Binder
3,000.00
Cutting Brush
500.00
Naylor Street (West Chelmsford) 300.00
Columbus Ave (East Chelmsford)
300.00
Sherman and Adams Streets
500.00
Loading Machine
613.30
Steam Roller and Scarifier
4,900.00
We recommend that the following amounts be appropriated from money "already in the hands of the Town Treasurer.
Fence at West Cemetery
$100.00
Street Signs 295.00
ARTICLE 6. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to contract with the Lowell Electric Light Corporation, at the prevailing price per light, for eighty-one lights in addition to the number previously contracted for, said lights to be distributed along the following public ways, viz : Fourteen lights on Riverneck Road; nine lights on High Street, Hunt Road, and Littleton Street; seven lights on Boston Road ; eight lights on Russell's Mill Road ; five lights on Parkhurst Road; five lights on Old Westford Road from City line to North Road ; four lights on Boulder Avenue and Old Westford Road ; four lights on Park Road beginning at Wood's Corner, South Chelmsford ; three lights on Westford Road ; nine lights on West Chelmsford Road ; two lights on Turnpike Road; one light on Subway; one light on Bridge Street; one light on Keats Street; one light on Littleton Street; one light on Depot Street, North Chelmsford; one light at corner of Holt and Washington Streets; one light at corner of James and John Streets; one light on South Street; and three lights on Acton Road ; or act in relation thereto.
No one having appeared before your committee to explain the need of lights at these several localities, we submit this article without recommendation.
ARTICLE 8. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate a sum not exceeding Four Thousand Dollars ($4,000.00) with which to buy a
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motor fire chemical apparatus for the North Village; or act in relation thereto.
We believe that there is need of better Fire Protection throughout the Town and therefore recommend that a committee of seven citizens be chosen to thoroughly investigate the whole matter of Town Fire Protection, and report with recommendations and estimated costs, at a Special Town Meeting, not later than June 4, 1921.
ARTICLE 9. To see if the Town will appoint a committee to investigate and report as to a site for a fire house at West Chelmsford and the probable cost of the land and the erection thereon of a suitable building in which to house the apparatus and which will serve as a meeting place for the West Chelmsford Fire Department; or act in relation thereto.
We recommend that this article be referred to the committee appointed under Article 8.
ARTICLE 10. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate a sum not exceeding Six Hundred Dollars ($600.00) for the purpose of supply- ing the West Chelmsford Fire Department with additional fire equipment ; or act in relation thereto.
We recommend that the sum of Six Hundred Dollars ($600.00) be raised and appropriated, said sum to be expended under the direction of the Selectmen, for the purposes of this article.
ARTICLE 12. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) or some other amount, and elect a director for demonstration work in agriculture and home economics, the money to be expended by, and the director to serve in co-operation with, the County Trustees for Aid to Agriculture and Home Economics, under the provisions of Chapter 273, General Acts of 1918 and any amendments thereof; or act in relation thereto.
We recommend that the sum of Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) be raised and appropriated, to be expended under direction of the Selectmen for the purposes of this article.
ARTICLE 13. To see if the Town will appropriate from money already in the hands of the Treasurer a sum not exceeding Thirty-five Hundred Dollars ($3,500.00) with which to meet unpaid bills of 1920; or act in relation thereto.
We recommend that Thirty-five Hundred Dollars ($3,500.00) be appro- priated from money already in the hands of the Town Treasurer for the purposes of this article, and be expended by direction of the Selectmen.
ARTICLE 14. To see if the Town will vote to borrow a sum not exceeding Twelve Thousand Dollars ($12,000.00) or what other sum, for the purpose of continuing construction of the North Road and of constructing the Acton Road and the Groton Road; or act in relation thereto.
The intent of this article is to provide money to continue construction on the North Road to the Center Village, and to begin permanent
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construction on the Acton and Groton Roads. We are informed that State and County will each provide a like amount. This being for permanent improvements of Town highways, we recommend that the sum of Twelve Thousand Dollars ($12,000.00) be borrowed for the purposes of this article, and that the money be expended under direction of the Selectmen.
ARTICLE 16. To see if the Town will vote to build a four-room school house at the Westlands, so called, at an expense for the building and the equipment thereof not exceeding Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00) and appoint a Building Committee; or act in relation thereto.
We recommend that a four-room school house be built at the Westlands at an expense for the building and equipment of not more than Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00) and that a Building Committee of three citizens be appointed therefor.
ARTICLE 17. In the event of affirmative action under Article 16, to see if the Town will vote to raise or borrow and appropriate a sum not exceeding Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00) with which to build and equip a four-room school house at the Westlands, so called; or act in relation thereto.
We recommend that a sum of money not exceeding Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00) be raised or borrowed and appropriated for the purposes of this article, and that said sum of money be expended under the direction of a Building Committee appointed under Article 16, of this warrant.
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