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July 28. Henry Antonis, son of John Mamchielli and Louisa (DeLucca) Mamchielli.
Aug. 8. Isabell, daughter of (Normear).
Alfeda
Aug. 9. Ruth Elizabeth, daughter of Othro Charles and Stella (Hodgson) Charles.
Aug. 25. , son of Telesfar Chludzienski and Helen (Visnefski) Chludzienski.
Aug. 30. Florence Shirley, daughter of Arthur Kirby and May (Wilkinson) Kirby.
Sept. 1. William Henry, son of Ernest R. Faulkner and Annie S. (Callahan) Faulkner.
Sept. 20. Robert Appleton, son of Raymond A. Tucker and Grace W. (Gray) Tucker.
Sept. 25. Marie Lillian, daughter of George Talbot and Oleana (Morneau) Talbot.
. Sept. 26. Alice Mabel, daughter of Walter Newhall and Marion (Day) Newhall.
Oct. 11. James Eardly, son of James Gildaro and Delia (Eardly) Gildaro.
Oct. 24. Robert Henry, son of Albert Brooks and Jennie (O'Neil) Brooks.
Nov. 4. Archie Thomas, son of Thomas Sargent and Julia (Burke) Sargent.
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Nov. 9. Louis Leonard, son of Harvey L. Dorcett and Alice Belle (Varnum) Dorcett.
Nov. 16. Ralph Edward, son of Everett N. Stanley and Hattie B. (Merrill) Stanley.
Nov. 23. Ernest, son of Daniel J. Foley and Eliz. Agnes (McDonough) Foley.
Dec. 16. Donald John, son of David Nelson and Marga- ret (White) Nelson.
Dec. 25. Still born, son of George VonL. Myer, Jr. and Frances S. (Saltonstall) Meyer.
DEATHS RECORDED, 1914.
Yrs.
Mos.
Dys.
Jan, 8. Nathaniel Foster,
88
1
2
Mar. 7. Ara Anna Lull,
83
5
8
Mar. 9. Franklin S. Tenney,
81
10
Mar. 30. Susan E. Gibney,
61
9
April 4. Edmond Cook,
63
8 23
April 20. Jennie C. Porter,
70
19
May 25. Edward A. Trussell,
61
May 28.
Katherine Senior,
33
20
June 6.
Horace E. Andrews,
49
11
23
June 27.
Matilda E. Smith,
66
2
8
July 19.
Frank McDonald,
27
4
9
July 26.
Howard L. Knowlton,
21
5
2
Aug. 8.
Angelia C. Blanchard
74
8
Aug. 19.
Emily Bowles Kimball,
61-
27 ยท
Sept. 27.
Francis W. Brown,
80
8
27
Sept. 30.
Charles McCormack,
21
Oct. 16.
Isabell Morneau,
2
8
Oct. 29.
Johanna Erickson,
76
11
29
.
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BROUGHT INTO TOWN.
Jan. 30. Manasseh Cutler,
89
10
April 6.
Georgianna Knowlton, 65
4
Nov. 16. Isabell Graham Waat,
54 4
Dec. 1. Charles L. Webber, 67
10
SAMUEL A. F. WHIPPLE,
Town Clerk.
Public Library Report.
As Librarian of the Hamilton Public Library I beg leave to present my annual report.
Concerning the daily work of the Library there has been no special change.
The increase in the number of volumes issued during the year-non-fiction as well as fiction-is very noticeable.
More books have been used, this past year, in connec- tion with school work, than in previous years.
A slight change has been made in the list of magazines. Among the recent subscriptions is the " National Geographic Magazine," one which may be well used in connection with school work. It describes, in a very graphic way, many of the countries now at war, and the illustrations are specially fine.
Through the courtesy of Mrs. Quincy A. Shaw the Li- brary received a year's subscription to a weekly paper, the
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"Woman's Journal and Suffrage news." She also gave two bound volumes, "After Prison-What?" and " Little Mother Stories," by Maude Ballington Booth. Through a fund established by the late Mary Baker Eddy, we received also three bound volumes on the subject of " Christian Science."
We have received, at different times, other gifts of mag- azines and books, and to all who have so kindly contributed, we extend thanks.
GRACE C. STONE, Librarian.
Branch Library Report.
During the two years that the Branch of the Hamilton Public Library has been located at the " Boston Store," two hundred and fifty (250) new names have been added to the list of readers.
. During the past year, there has been issued an average of fifty (50) books a day, the library being open Tuesdays and Saturdays from two until eight o'clock.
Within the past year, Feb. 1, 1914, to Feb. 1, 1915, there has been forwarded to the library fund eleven dollars and fifty-one cents ($11.51), all of which was received from book fines.
The call for non-fiction books is not as great as for the " latest fiction "-the number of non-fiction books distributed being only a very small per cent.
OSGOOD J. KIMBALL.
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Appended may be found a list of books added to the Library during the past year.
Abbott, Eleanor H.
The White Linen Nurse
F2692
Allen, Capt. Quincy
The Outdoor Chums on the Gulf
F2710
Antin, Mary
The Promised Land
They Who Knock at our Gate
325A
Altzheler, Jos.
The Guns of Bull Run
F2727
Appleton, Victor
Tom Swift and his Motor Boat
F2695
Tom Swift and his Electric Rifle
F2696
Tom Swift and his Wireless Message
F2697
Bacon, Josephine D.
While Caroline was Growing
F2700
Barbour, Ralph H.
Benton's Venture
F2730
Barclay, Florence L.
The Wall of Partition
F2772
Bassett, Sara W.
The Story of Wool
F2729
Birmingham, G. H.
The Red Hand of Ulster
F2739
Brown, Robert C.
What Happened to Mary
F2699
Burnham, Clara L.
The Right Track
F2777
Cabot, Richard C.
What Men Live By-Work, Play, Love, Wor- ship 204C
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Cameron, Margaret
The Golden Rule Dollivers F2688
Campbell, Daisy R. The Fiddling Girl Cellini Benvenuto
F2709
Memoirs of Benvenuto Cellini
B.C20
Comstock, Harriet
Camp Brave Pine F2737
Connolly, James B.
Sonnie Boy's People F2747
Connor, Ralph
The Patrol of the Sun Dance Trail F2771
Crockett, S. R.
Sandy F2708
Curwood, James
Kazan F2724
Dalrymple, Leona
Diana of the Green Van
F2714
Daviess, Maria T.
Phyllis
F2781
Davis, Richard H.
The King's Jackal
F2750
Cinderella and Other Stories F2751
Deland, Ellen D.
Country Cousins
F2720
Deland, Margaret
Partners
F2734
Dell, Ethel M.
The Rocks of Valpre
F2687
Douglas, Amanda M.
Stephen Dane F2694
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Droke, Anna E. S.
The Diary of a Minister's Wife
F2719
Farwell, Parris
Village Improvement 630.6F.
Gray, Charlotte E. The Inn by the Sea
F2706
Grey, Zane
Riders of the Purple Sage
F2698
The Light of the Western Stars
F2686
Gould, Elizabeth L.
Little Polly Prentiss
F2723
Polly Prentiss goes to School
F2725
Polly Prentiss goes a Visiting
F2726
Hancock, H. Irving
The Grammar School Boys of Gridley F2677
The Grammar School Boys Snow Bound
F2678
The Grammar School Boys in the Woods F2679
The Grammar School Boys in Summer Ath- letics F2689
Hewlett, Maurice
Bendish
F2761
Hill, Geo. B.
The Young Farmer
2728
Hill, Marion
Sunrise Valley F2756
Hope, Laura L.
The Outdoor Girls of Deepdale
F2681
The Outdoor Girls at Rainbow Lake
F2682
The Outdoor Girls in a. Motor Car F2683
The Outdoor Girls in a Winter Camp
F2684
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Hopkins, Wm. J.
F2712
Burbury Stoke The Meddlings of Eve
F2702
Hardy, Jean E. John O'Partletts' F2744
Johnson, Mary
The Witch F2779
Jones, Doris E. Peter Piper F2710
Kirkland, Winifred
The Boy Editor
F2736
Lincoln, Joseph C.
(Cap'n) Cap'n Dan's Daughter
F2675
Kent Knowles-Quahaug
F2768
Locke, William J.
Simon, the Jester
F2748
The Fortunate Youth
F2745
Logan, Mrs. John A.
Reminiscences of a Soldier's Life
B.L.13
London, Jack
The Strength of the Strong
F2713
Lutz, Grace L. H.
The Best Man
F2680
The Man of the Desert F2770
Lynn, Margaret
A Stepdaughter of the Prairie
F2759
MacGrath, Harold Pidgin Island F2717
Marlow, Amy Bell
Wyn's Camping Days F2762
A Little Miss Nobody F2763
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The Girl from Sunset Ranch The Oldest of Four
F2764
F2765
Martin, Helen
Barnabetta
F2716
McCall, Sidney
Ariadne of Allen Water
F2721
Morrison, Gertrude
The Girls of Central High
F2760
Mullins, Isla May
Anne of the Blossom Shop
F2769
Morris, Kathleen
The Treasure
F2743
Onions, Oliver
In Accordance with the Evidence
F2754
The Debit Account
F2755
Oppenheim, E. Phillips
The Double Life of Mr. Alfred Burton
F2749
Packard, Frank L.
Greater Love Hath No Man
F2740
Parker, Gilbert
You Never Know Your Luck
F2715
Pearson, Edmund
The Voyage of the Hoppergrass
F2735
Phillpots, Eden
The Mother
F2753
Pierrot's, Mother
One Year of Pierrot
F2758
Piper, Margaret
Sylvia's Experiment
F2780
Porter, Eleanor H.
Miss Billy Married F2693
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Pratt, Lucy
Ezekiel Expands F2741
Ray, Anna Chapin
Half a Dozen Girls F2767
Richmond, Grace
The Twenty-fourth of June
F2782
Shafer, Don Cameron
Harper's Beginning Electricity
537S
Snaith, J. C. The Principal Girl F2757
Speed, Nell
Molly Brown's Post Graduate Days
F2722
Tomlinson, Everett T.
Four Boys in the Yosemite F2773
Four Boys on Pike's Peak F2774
Four Boys in the Land of Cotton F2775
Four Boys in the Yellowstone
F2776
Van Schaick, Geo.
Sweetapple Cove
F2705
Verrell, A. Hyatt
Harper's Aircraft Book
621.4V
Harper's Wireless Book
654V
Vieli, Herman
Myra of the Pines
F2701
Vorse, Mary Heaton
The Heart's Country
F2731
Wallis, Arthur
Idonia F2718
Warner, Anne
Sunshine Jane F2676
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Webster, Jean
Just Patty
F2690
When Patty went to College
F2746
Wells, Carolyn
Anybody but Anne
F2738
Wemyss, Mrs. Geo. Grannie
F2752
Williamson, C. N. and A. M.
It Happened in Egypt
F2732
Wittingham, Harrison That Farm
F2707
Woolley, Lazelle T.
Faith Palmer at Fordyce Hall
F2671
Wright, Harold Bell
The Eyes of the World
F2784
Wright, James N.
Where Copper was King
F2703
TOWN OF HAMILTON
Report of the Committee on Motor Fire Apparatus
February 10, 1915
Report of the Committee on Motor Fire Apparatus for the Town of Hamilton.
Your Committee was directed to investigate two questions :
First-Whether it would be advisable to purchase an Automobile Chemical, and if so what type should be pur- chased.
Second-If an Automobile Chemical is to be purchased, would it be advisable to cooperate with the Town of Wen- ham in the purchase and operation of the same, and, if so, what arrangements can be made.
Your Committee has been fortunate in being able to pre- sent this problem to, and receive the advice of one of the leading experts on fire matters in the East, Mr. Greely S. Curtis. Although at present engaged in the manufacture of Hydro-Aeroplanes in Marblehead, Mr. Curtis has been actively interested in the Fire Departments of New York and Boston, and is now engaged in a survey of the Salem Department in order to bring it up to the required standard. With Mr. Curtis, your committee discussed the geographical aspect of the Town, and the present equipment for fire fighting.
We find the Town as a whole without practicable fire protection. The South Village has some hose and a hose wagon which are not at present maintained in such a manner that the hose can be laid with despatch and handled with efficiency. Used in connection with a powerful pumping machine from out of town, it would be very valuable if prop- erly maintained. At present, therefore, this equipment is of
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little or no practical value, so that the South Village is as badly off for protection as the rest of the Town, and on account of the number and character of the buildings, consti- tutes the greatest fire risk in the whole Town. To have, therefore, a piece of Motor Fire Apparatus for the protection of the whole Town seems advisable, if the Town is ready to purchase and maintain it under conditions which will enable it to be used to its maximum efficiency. In this report these conditions are considered.
In deciding on the type of machine best suited to the present as well as to the future needs of the Town, your committee and Mr. Curtis feel that Chemical will always be the principle fire fighting agent. When the Town has a water supply with fire hydrants, a pumping machine carrying hose will be desirable. In certain localities, where there is sufficient water, especially around the Railroad station, such . a machine can now be used to advantage. We recommend, therefore, a machine combining both features, so designed that the greatest possible amount of Chemical can be carried but able to draft water from any convenient source. Such a machine is known as a Triple Combination. We do not feel at this time that we can recommend any particular make of machine, that is a proposition to be settled when the Town is actually in the market, and tenders can be made on specifications, prepared with Mr. Curtis's assistance, drawn to meet the local physical conditions. We recommend that an appropriation of eight thousand ($8000) be made for the purchase of a Motor Fire Apparatus.
In order that the maximum efficiency of this Motor Fire Apparatus may be obtained, it must be suitably housed, and cared for by men competent, not only to drive it to the fire,
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but to operate the chemical tanks and pump and direct the work of the call men and volunteer assistance. Two courses are open to the Town :-
First-To purchase land and erect a suitable building with heat and quarters for the men. We estimate that this building will cost at least four thousand dollars ($4000), exclusive of the land. Two and perhaps three men should be employed at a salary of one thousand dollars ($1000) each, one to be on duty every minute of the day and night.
Second-The second plan would be to contract with persons who can supply suitable quarters and can guarantee to furnish two competent operators at any moment of the day or night, under penalty of a fine of one hundred dollars ($100) for any failure to furnish said operators.
Your committee believes that the latter plan would be the most economical and efficient, and recommends that a contract be made with whosoever can comply with these requirements and that twenty-five hundred dollars ($2500) be appropriated to cover such contract. Further, that the sum of five hundred dollars ($500) be appropriated for operating costs, such as oil, gasoline, chemicals and any contingencies.
The most vital consideration in fire fighting is that the alarm be transmitted and the deparment get into action in the shortest possible time. When volunteers or call men are needed at the fire on the arrival of the apparatus, an alarm system to announce the district in which a fire is in progress is necessary. Your committee, therefore, recommends that the Town be divided into districts ; the telephone be used to communicate with the Fire Station, and suitable apparatus be installed to strike the bells on the Congregational Church
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in the center of the Town and the Union Church in the South Village. We further recommend that two thousand dollars ($2000) be appropriated for such a fire alarm sys- tem as a necessary part of fire protection.
In order further to insure the maximum efficiency of this proposed Motor Fire Apparatus and Fire Alarm System, and to bring the present hose wagon and hose to the same con- dition, your committee recommend that the Town create a commission or committee to take full charge of all present and future Fire Department equipment, to handle all appropri. ations made for Fire Department purposes, to hire and train all persons employed, in short, to conduct the Fire Depart- ment. This commission or committee to be appointed by and responsible to the Finance Committee and to serve without pay.
In the matter of cooperation with the Town of Wenham, your committee feels that it is most desirable. Physically both towns are in the same condition. One machine and fire alarm system will serve the two towns better than they will serve one. We have communicated with the Selectmen of Wenham, but at this writing have heard nothing from them. Should cooperation between the two towns be established for the purchase and operation of the proposed equipment, a proper business administration of the joint department can only be obtained by having the proposed commission or com- mittee combined with a similar body from Wenham as a joint commission.
Respectfully submitted,
OSGOOD J. KIMBALL, Chairman, GEORGE CHECKETT, Clerk, HENRY N. HUDSON.
Report of Water Committee.
Feb. 23, 1915.
Citizens of the Town of Hamilton :
Your Committee having in charge the investigation of a suitable source for a water supply for the Town of Hamil- ton, have given the subject careful study since the town meeting held November 5, 1914, at which meeting they were instructed to cause an investigation to be made of possible sources of supply within the town.
In the investigation your Committee employed Mr. Ray- mond C. Allen, Civil Engineer, of Manchester, Mass., to con- duct the preliminary investigation and to present to them a complete report discussing the possible sources and the method and cost of their utilization.
The first and one of the most important steps in this investigation was the examination of possible sources for an underground supply of water and the work up to this time has been directed toward this end. Accompanying this report is the preliminary report of Mr. Allen, describing the various investigations made for an underground supply and the results obtained. Briefly summarized it would appear that while a considerable amount of underground water is available within the limits of the town of Hamilton, it is gen- erally extremely hard and possessing characteristics which,
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while not objectionable for an individual private supply, are yet distinctly undesirable for a domestic supply for an entire community.
One source has been found, however, where it is prob- able that a supply of ground water of excellent quality in every respect can be obtained. This source lies on the east- erly side of Miles River Valley, and while its quality appears to be excellent, our Engineer advises us that a careful test should be made to determine the quantity available. This test should be made at once in order that sufficient data may be obtained for the preparation of a final report which will definitely discuss and recommend the best system of supply for the town.
We therefore recommend that the town appropriate the sum of three hundred dollars in addition to that already appropriated, for the use of the Committee in making such a test and in such further investigation as may prove necessary.
Inasmuch as it will be probably impracticable to present a final report to the annual meeting, your Committee is of the opinion that when a final report shall have been completed, it should be printed as a special report and considered by the town at a special meeting called for that purpose, and it is their belief that such a final report will be ready not later than the late spring or early summer.
Respectfully submitted,
EUGENE L. WILDES, Chairman, W. C. WARE, Secretary, JOHN R. MANN, FRANK P. TRUSSELL.
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Feb. 23, 1915.
Committee on Water Supply, Hamilton, Mass.
Gentlemen :- In view of the fact that the annual town meeting is soon to be held in Hamilton, it seems to me de- sirable that your Committee should receive from me a report upon the work done thus far in the investigation of a source of water supply for the town of Hamilton. This report can only be a report of progress at the present time as the infor- mation so far secured is not sufficient to use as a basis for a final report. It will properly serve, however, to acquaint your Committee and the citizens of Hamilton with the work accomplished and the results obtained.
In an investigation of this sort there are three general divisions of the work.
First: The determination of the source to be used.
Second: The method to be used in collecting the water and the equipment necessary for pumping it.
Third: The system of mains and services for convey- ing the water from the pumps and reservoir to the consumer.
The work thus far done has been entirely concerned with the first division above, that of securing a suitable source of supply ; although considerable work has been done in col- lecting data bearing upon the amount of piping necessary for the distribution of water when it shall have been obtained.
In the study of possible sources of water supply within the limits of the town of Hamilton two natural divisions are at once obvious, viz : surface supplies and those from under- ground sources.
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Considerable data has been collected upon the surface supplies available in Hamilton but at this time they are not sufficiently advanced to warrant a detailed report.
Inasmuch as it is generally desirable to secure a supply of water for a community of this sort from underground sources when possible, the larger part of the work thus far accomplished has been directed toward this end.
In the investigation of possible underground sources there seem to be three watersheds or valleys in which it is reasonable to expect water may be found in quantities to provide a sufficient water supply for the town of Hamilton. These are :
First : The valley of Miles River.
Second : The valley of Black Brook.
Third : The valley of Ipswich River.
In or about the year 1900 numerous test wells were driven in the valley of Miles River just north of the Essex Branch Railroad near the Hamilton Station on that road, by Mr. George W. Fitz of your town. Water was found in considerable quantity, and while it was first thought to con- tain an excess of iron, an extended pumping test showed that a source of supply in considerable quantity and compar- atively free from iron might be secured in this neighborhood. Since this investigation a portion of the site occupied by these wells has been purchased by one of your summer resi- dents and he has established there a private supply of his own. The results obtained here made it seem desirable to conduct further tests in this neighborhood. Accordingly a line of test wells was driven from the most westerly well
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driven by Mr. Fitz northerly toward a spring on the north- erly side of the meadow on his land. These wells developed a copious supply of water, the preliminary analysis of which showed a very low content of iron. As the water obtained by Mr. Fitz in his investigation was of excellent quality ex- cept for its high iron I was naturally led to expect that the water obtained from the wells just described would be similar in other characteristics to that obtained by him. Upon com- plete analysis, however, rather unusual results developed. The chlorine content was abnormally high and the hardness was very excessive. In studying the results of these analysis and comparing them with other analysis of water from simi- lar sources in this portion of Essex County striking similar- ity was shown to those obtained from driven wells in the Common Pasture at Newburyport some years ago. The high chlorine, solids and hardness which often indicate sew- age polution did not seem to apply in this case as the oppor- tunity for so considerable an amount as that indicated by the analysis was not apparent. I am therefore inclined to the view which was taken by many in the Newburyport case that the stratum of gravel from which the water is drawn is a part of an ancient marine deposit and that the high chlorine and hardness is due to this condition. Other results of the analy- sis seemed to indicate that considerable organic matter might be present. Samples were also taken from a driven well in use about three-fourths of a mile northerly from these wells and on the westerly side of the valley. This well showed a very good quality of water except that it was excessively hard.
The results obtained here being unsatisfactory it was next decided to drive a test well in the valley of Black
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Brook and at what seemed to be a reasonable place to expect to obtain a good supply, a well was driven. This well indi- dated a fair amount of water and the result of the analysis showed it to be of very good quality in all but the element of hardness and this was excessive.
As it is believed that the results obtained from this well are typical of those to be expected from water of this source and as the funds available for well driving are limited, it was deemed wise to secure a typical sample of water from the valley of Ipswich River and a test well was driven in the meadows westerly from Vineyard Hill.
This well gave a fair amount of water but upon analy- sis it was found to be excessively hard being as hard indeed as the water from the wells first driven.
While this work was in progress, comparisions of the water obtained by Mr. Fitz in 1900 were made with those obtained from the wells driven this season and with those driven heretofore on the westerly side of Miles River. The marked difference in hardness has suggested that there may be two independent strata of water bearing gravel in this valley and this is also borne out by a number of other fea- tures which have presented themselves as the matter has been studied.
In order to determine this, samples of water were taken from a spring on the easterly side of Miles River and from a driven well near it. The flow of water at this point seems quite copious and the analysis of the water shows it to be of excellent character, reasonably soft and comparatively free from iron. I feel very certain that this water will meet every sanitary requirement for a domestic water supply, but the quantity to be obtained has yet to be ascertained. The:
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most practical way of determining the probable yield is by a pumping test carried on for a sufficient number of days to furnish a reasonable indication of what might be expected under actual service conditions. The water could well be obtained from a number of driven wells so located and driven that in the event of the installation of a permanent pumping plant, these wells so driven would form a part thereof. Such a pumping test as this will without doubt be required by the State Authorities before passing upon this source as a supply for Hamilton.
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