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ART. 20. To see if the Town will vote to accept an exten- sion on School Street, as laid out by the Road Commis- sioners, with the boundaries and measurements as shown on the plan on file with the Town Clerk.
ART. 21. To see if the Town will vote to accept Robinson Avenue, as laid out by the Road Commissioners, with the boundaries and measurements as shown on the plan on file with the Town Clerk.
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ART. 22. To see if the Town will vote to transfer the sum of $1,038.00, balance of the Hurricane Relief Fund, which was alloted to the Highway Department in 1938, to be used by the Highway Department for additional labor and materials on Chapter 81 streets.
ART. 23. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $200.00 for the Highway Department, to provide Street Signs on various streets in South Tewks- bury, or take any action relative thereto.
ART. 24. To see if the Town will vote to locate a light on Water Street, opposite Adelaide Road, and appropriate money for same, or take any action relative thereto.
ART. 25. To see if the Town will vote to provide adequate street lighting along the new overpass at Wamesit, make appropriation for same; or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 26. To see if the Town will vote to install electric lights on Foster Street to the residence of Arthur Bois- vert, and make appropriation for the same, or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 27. To see if the Town will vote to install a street light on South Street, near the residence of Louis O'Con- nell, or take any action relative thereto.
ART. 28. To see if the Town will vote to install one light on Clark Road, or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 29. To see if the Town will vote to provide adequate street lighting on Main Street, between Chandler Street and St. William's Church, and install one or more 1000 candle power lights in the immediate vicinity of the church, make appropriation for same; or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 30. To see if the Town will vote to install one light at the corner of Woburn and Park Streets, or take any other action relative thereto.
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ART. 31. To see if the Town will vote to install one light on East Street, between the residence of Roland Robin- son and corner of East and Chandler Streets, or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 32. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the repairing and drainage of Summer Street, install one light on same, or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 33. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate $1,080.00 for maintaining the services of a police officer at each of the elementary schools, or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 34. To see if the Town will vote to have the Highway Department collect rubbish, garbage, or other refuse in various districts. of the town on one day each week, or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 35. To see if the voters will instruct the Board of Health to designate and provide one or more public dumps, if possible, on land now owned by the town, and prohibit dumping of rubbish along public roads; or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 36. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate $1,293.69 to pay bills of the State Department of Public Welfare, and cities and towns for welfare support of per- sons with Tewksbury settlements residing elsewhere.
ART. 37. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate to be used in conjunction with Fed- eral Funds for Works Projects Administration expenses for the year 1940, or take any action relative to the same.
ART. 38. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $100.00 for the purpose of paying the 1938 salary as Road Commissioner of John T. Gale.
ART. 39. To see if the Town will vote to reimburse the treasurer for money spent in the Welfare Department under Chapter 44, Section 31, the sum of $3,877.46.
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ART. 40. To see if the Town will vote to reimburse the treas- urer for money spent in the Aid To Dependent Children Account, under Chapter 44, Section 31, the sum of $205.50.
ART. 41. To see if the Town will vote to reimburse the treas- urer for money spent in the Police Department, under Chapter 44, Section 31, the sum of $137.66.
ART. 42. To see if the Town will vote to reimburse the treasurer for money spent in the Fire Department under Chapter 44, Section 31, the sum of $241.55.
ART. 43. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for a reserve fund, under Section 6 of Chapter 40 of the General Laws, Tercentenary Ed., or take any action relative thereto.
ART. 44. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the purpose of paying the Town's share of the material cost on Sponsor's Project No. 41; being a project to establish sidewalks, on East, Chandler and Pleasant Streets, or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 45. To see if the Town will vote that all Motor Ve- hicles, owned by the Town of Tewksbury, shall be let- tered with the name of Department to which the vehicle belongs, or take any action relative to same.
ART. 46. To see if the Town will vote to choose by ballot at the Annual Town Meeting in February, 1940 three Se- lectmen, three members of the Board of Public Welfare, and three members of the Board of Health, one to serve three years, one to serve two years, and one to serve one year, and each succeeding year to choose by ballot one Selectman, one member of the Board of Public Welfare, and one member of the Board of Health, to serve for the period of three years or to take any action relative to same.
ART. 47. To see if the Town will vote that the Highway Department, cut all brush on the highways of Tewksbury, or take any action relative to same.
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ART. 48. To see if the Town will vote to abolish the Chief of Police, and the Board of Selectmen to appoint a Cap- tain temporarily, or take any action relative to same.
ART. 49. To see if the Town will vote that all Boards shall notify, in writing, of all meetings and no sealed bids shall be opened until all members are present, or take any other action on same.
ART. 50. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Se- lectmen, to meet with the Lowell Electric Light Corp; Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway Co., for lower rates, or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 51. To see if the Town will vote that any Citizen of Tewksbury, receiving $25.00 or more per week, cannot collect for services in any other department, or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 52. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $800.00 for the purchasing of Stop Signs, No Parking Signs and other signs and the erecting of same as recommended by the Department of Public Works in a survey recently made by the Town Safety Committee and Engineers of the Department of Public Works, or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 53. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $1,550.00 to purchase a General Motors Truck of one and one-half ton, 1311/8 inch wheel base, chassis and cab over, Model A. F. 312, a 350-gallon booster tank, and material for equipping same, or take any other action relative thereto. (Pump, Hose and other equipment to be taken off Number Four (4) Truck.
ART. 54. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of six hundred and one dollars ($601.00) to pay counsel fees and other expenses incurred in de- fending the case before the appellate Board of tax ap- peals of Blanche B. Ames against the Board of Assessors.
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ART. 55. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $500.00, being the sum appropriated by the Town under Article 15 at the Annual Town Meeting held February 2, 1938 and omitted by the assessors in their levy of that year.
ART. 56. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $50.00 in support of the Trustees for County Aid to Agriculture, through the Middlesex County Extension Service, and elect a director. Said money to be spent under the direction of the local director, or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 57. To see if the Town will permit in accordance with Section 34 of Chapter 114 of the General Laws the use of the following described parcel of land in Tewksbury for the extension of the cemetery owned by the Tewksbury Cemetery Corporation .-
Said parcel is bounded and described as follows : Begin- ning at the southwesterly corner of the parcel on the northerly side of East Street; thence northerly along the stone wall and land of the Tewksbury Cemetery Corpora- tion about five hundred twenty (520) feet to land formerly of the Lowell and Lawrence Railroad; thence easterly three hundred thirty-four (334) feet to an iron pipe; thence southerly about four hundred and twenty (420) feet to an iron pipe ; thence westerly ninety (90) feet, more or less, to the northeast corner of land of A. W. Pendle- ton ; thence still westerly along the northerly side of said Pendleton land one hundred (100) feet; thence still west- erly thirty (30) feet to an iron pipe ; thence southerly one hundred (100) feet to East Street; thence westerly about one hundred fourteen (114) feet to the point of begin- ning. Being a part of the premises conveyed to Walter J. Robinson by deed of Albert S. Briggs dated July 9, 1912 and recorded in Middlesex North District Registry of Deeds, Book 490, Page 270. attested copies thereof, one at each of the Public Meeting
And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting up Houses, one at the Town Hall, one at each of the Post Offices and leave one hundred copies for the use of the citizens at the Post Offices in said Town, eight days at least and over two Sundays, before the time of said meeting.
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Hereof fail not and make due returns of this Warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk at the time and place of Meeting as aforesaid :
Given under our hands, this seventeenth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and forty.
IRVING F. FRENCH, EVERETT H. KING, BERNARD H. GREENE, 7
Selectmen of Tewksbury.
A true copy attest :
CYRIL L. BARKER,
Constable of Tewksbury.
February 7, 1940
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I have served the within Warrant by posting up attested copies thereof, one at each of the Public Meeting Houses, one at the Town Hall, one at each of the Post Offices, and by leaving one hundred (100) copies for the use of the Citizens at the Post Offices in said Town, eight days at least and over two Sundays, before time of holding said Meeting.
CYRIL L. BARKER
Constable of Tewksbury.
A true copy. Attest :
H. LOUIS FARMER, Jr.
Town Clerk.
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ANNUAL TOWN ELECTION
Tewksbury, Massachusetts, February 7, 1940
At a Meeting of the inhabitants of the Town of Tewksbury, qual- ified to vote in Town Affairs. at the Town Hall, this day, the following business was transacted. Warrant was read by the Presiding Election Officer, Irving F. French, and the Polls were officially opened at ten o'clock A.M. Jeremiah Houlihan, Jesse French, Wallace Farwell, Anna McPhillips, William A. Smith and Thomas Sullivan sworn in as Tellers. Polls closed at eight P.M. with the Register showing 1187 (on three different occasions the Register registered twice on a single ballot), Check List showed one thousand one hundred eighty-four names checked as voted which checked with the eleven hundred and eighty-four ballots counted. Following is the result of the count :-
Town Clerk for One Year
H. Louis Farmer, Jr. had 906 votes (elected and sworn)
Blanks 178
Selectmen for One Year
Duncan J. Cameron had
618 votes (elected and sworn)
Irving F. French had
749 (elected and sworn)
Bernard H. Greene had
633 (elected and sworn)
Everett H. King had
546
Blanks 706
Board of Public Welfare for One Year
Duncan J. Cameron had
624 votes (elected and sworn )
Irving F. French had
744 (elected and sworn )
Bernard H. Greene had
630
(elected and sworn)
Everett H. King had
540
Alfred A. Lawlor had
1
Blanks 713
Board of Health for One Year
Duncan J. Cameron had
622 votes (elected and sworn)
Irving F. French had
741
„ (elected and sworn)
Bernard H. Greene had
634 ,, (elected and sworn)
Everett H. King had
532
Blanks 723
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Auditor for One Year
Robert E. Gay had 890 votes (elected and sworn) Blanks 194 ,,
Treasurer for One Year
George A. Marshall had 938 votes (elected and sworn) Blanks 146 "
Moderator for One Year
Melvin G. Rogers had
886 votes (elected and sworn)
Herbert Trull had
3
Mrs. Melvin Rogers had
1
John Belton had
1
Alphonas Doucette had
1 "
Chas. McCarthy had
1
Blanks 191
Tax Collector for One Year
Harry C. Dawson had 922 votes (elected and sworn)
Wm. McGowan had
1
Alice Pike had
1
Harry Briggs had
1
Blanks
159 "
Tree Warden for One Year
Harris M. Briggs had 862 votes (elected and sworn)
Nelson Brown had
1
Geo. Mercier had
1
Teddy LaBuff had
1
George Gale had
· . Blanks
Trust Fund Commissioner for Three Years
Edwin W. Osterman had 812 votes (elected and sworn)
Blanks 272
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1
218
Constables for One Year
Cyril L. Barker had
835 votes (elected and sworn)
Chester E. Burgess had
836 (elected and sworn)
Lauchie McPhail had
817
(elected and sworn)
Ross Sargent had
1
Wm. McGowan had
1
Henry Morgan had
1
Blanks
761
Highway Commissioner for Three Years
Louis O. Berube had
520 votes (elected and sworn )
Asahel H. Jewell had
507
Blanks
57 "
School Committee for Three Years
May L. Larrabee had
654 votes (elected and sworn )
E. James O'Donoghue had 360
Jos. Aubut had
1
Blanks
69
"
Trustees Public Library for Three Years
Edgar Smith had
812 votes (elected and sworn)
Ruth W. Smith had
806 (elected and sworn)
Thos. Flynn had
1
Blanks
549 "
Park Commissioner for Three Years
Joseph L. Maher had
227 votes
Walter Roberts had
620
(elected and sworn)
Mickey Mouse had
1
Daniel McKlabup had
1
"
Alexander Supernant had
1
"
Fred Carter had
1
Jeremiah Houlihan had
1
Fred Goodwin had
2
Teddy LeBouef had
3
Assessor for Three Years
Buzzell King had
862 votes (elected and sworn) 1
Elmer Snead had
Fred Carter had
1
A true record.
Attest :
H. LOUIS FARMER, Jr., Town Clerk. Tewksbury, Mass., February 12, 1940
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Office of the Board of Registrars:
We hereby certify, this day, February 12, 1940, we have recounted the votes cast at the Town Election, held February 7, 1940 at the Town Hall, Tewksbury, Massachusetts, for Highway Commissioner for a term of three years, and have found the following results:
Louis O. Berube had
521 votes
Asahel H. Jewell had 507
Blanks
56
Total
1084
Attest:
HERBERT A. FAIRBROTHER, Chairman GEORGE J. McCOY, WM. H. BENNETT, H. LOUIS FARMER, Jr., Clerk.
A true copy.
Attest :
H. LOUIS FARMER, Jr.,
Town Clerk.
:
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ANNUAL TOWN MEETING
Town Hall, Tewksbury, Massachusetts
February 14, 1940
At a meeting of the inhabitants of the Town of Tewksbury, qual- ified to vote in Town Affairs, held this day in the Town Hall, Tewks- bury, Massachusetts, the following business was transacted :--
Meeting called to order by Melvin G. Rogers, Moderator, at eight o'clock P.M. Check list used and a necessary quorum was found to be present. Rev. Matthew J. Noonan O.M.I. offered prayer. Moderator Rogers announced that Article 1 had been acted on the week previous in accordance with the By-law adopted by the Town at the last An- nual Town Meeting, and if there were no objections he would pass over Articles 2, 3 and 4 and proceed with Article 5; there were no objections.
ART. 5. VOTED: That the Town Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, be and hereby is authorized to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1940 and to issue a note or notes therefor, payable within one year, and to renew any note or notes as may be given for a period of less than one year in accordance with Section 17, Chapter 44, General Laws.
Moderator Rogers then asked the voters if they desired to post- pone the Meeting due to the inclement weather and because of the fact that less than one hundred voters out of a registration of nearly seventeen hundred were present. A motion by Mr. John Belton that the Meeting be postponed until one week from this day at seven-thirty P. M. was unanimously voted. Meeting ad- journed at eight minutes past eight o'clock P.M.
A true record.
Attest :
H. LOUIS FARMER, Jr.,
Town Clerk.
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POSTPONED ANNUAL TOWN MEETING
Town Hall, Tewksbury, Massachusetts
February 21, 1940
At a Meeting of the inhabitants of the Town of Tewksbury, qual- ified to vote in Town Affairs, held this day, February twenty-first, in the year of our Lord, One Thousand Nine hundred and forty, in the Town Hall Tewksbury, Massachusetts, the following business was transacted :
Meeting called to order by Moderator Melvin G. Rogers at seven- thirty o'clock P.M. Check list used and quorum found to be present.
ART. 2. All reports of Town Officers and Committees accepted.
ART. 3. VOTED: to raise and appropriate the following sums:
Street Lighting
$ 5,970.00
Incidentals
900.00
High ways
16,000.00
Schools
59,919.00
Library-Dog Tax and
1,250.00
Police
6,000.00
Stationery and Printing
1,150.00
Board of Health
2,500.00
Park Commission
300.00
Tree Warden
1,500.00
Fire Department
5,000.00
Department of Public Welfare-Voted: That $14,000.00 be raised and appropriated; $1,000.00 of which, shall be used to employ the services of a competent Welfare Investigator; one who is not a citizen or resident of this town, who will investigate the current assignments now on our Welfare Rolls. This Investigator shall be selected by the following members of the Finance Committee :-
Mr. Philip Battles
Mr. Mark Roper
Mr. Franklin Spaulding
The Committee shall instruct the investigator as to the nature of the report desired and receive his report.
Aid to Dependent children (plus Federal grants) $ 4,000.00
Bureau of Old Age Assistance (plus Federal grants) 9,500.00
Town Hall 3,800.00
Assessors
2,500.00
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Vocational Schools
1,800.00
Inspection of Meats and Animals
600.00
Aid, State and Military
2,500.00
Interest on Loans
500.00
Collection of Taxes
1,200.00
Municipal Insurance
1,500.00
Sealer of Weights and Measures
225.00
Dog Officer
100.00
Maintenance, Legion Headquarters
125.00
Gypsy and Brown Tail Moths
1,500.00
Board of Registrars
650.00
Salary Account
Auditor
700.00
Town Clerk (exclusive of all fees)
750.00
Tax Collector
1,500.00
Selectmen
800.00
Road Commissioners
400.00
School Committee
225.00
Election Officers
150.00
Treasurer
1,300.00
ART. 4. Adopted.
ART. 5. (Voted at Meeting held February 14, 1940)
ART. 6. VOTED: That the present or any succeeding Town Treas- urer, may during his term of office, with the approval of the then Selectmen, sell or assign any tax title held by the Town whether redeemable or unredeemable, for a sum not less than the consider- ation named in the tax deed plus interest thereon at the rate of eight percent (8% ) per annum from the date of the deed to the date of the sale or assignment of the tax title, plus the cost of recording said deed, and plus a sum not less than the taxes of the two years succeeding the year in which the tax was assessed for which the tax sale was made. The Board of Selectmen shall keep a book exclusively for the records of such approvals by them of sales or assignments of tax titles and the secretary of said Board shall, upon such approval by the Board of a sale or assign- ment give notice immediately in writing to the Town Auditor, stating the title which is being sold or assigned, and consideration to be received therefor.
Voted: to raise and appropriate the sum of $500.00 to be used by the Treasurer for assistance in securing tax titles.
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ART. 7. Adopted. Committee to be appointed by the Moderator.
Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of $350.00 for the proper observance of Memorial Day.
Committee appointed by Moderator: Harold J. Patten, Asa Stickney and Gilbert Hunt
ART. 8. VOTED: That the Selectmen be and hereby are authorized to institute suits on behalf of the Town or defend any suits that are, or may be brought against the Town, and to sign any con- tracts or agreements in behalf of the Town.
ART. 9. VOTED: To raise and appropriate the sum of $1,309.48 for the purposes outlined in this Article.
ART. 10. VOTED: That the Selectmen be and hereby are authorized to sell, after first giving notice of the time and place of sale by posting such notice of sale in some convenient and public place in the Town fourteen days at least before the sale, property taken by the Town under Tax Title procedure provided that the Select- men or whomsoever they may authorize to hold such public auction may reject any bid which they deem inadequate.
ART. 11. VOTED: That the Selectmen and Treasurer be and hereby are authorized to petition the land court for a foreclosure of Tax Titles held by the Town for more than two years, as provided in Section 65 of Chapter 60, General Laws, and to raise and appro- priate the sum of $250.00 therefor.
ART. 13. VOTED: That the Town appropriate the sum of $1,027.23, being the balance at present in the Highway Machinery Fund, together with all receipts for the use of Road Machinery from any source whatsoever and that the Highway Commissioners be and hereby are authorized to purchase from such fund, whenever in their judgment it becomes necessary, whatever new equipment or trucks the Highway Department may need; and to pay whatever cost of repairs and maintenance that may be incurred in the usual operations of the Highway Department provided that at the time of the above purchases the said Fund necessary shall be in the said Highway Maintenance Fund a sum large enough to pay for the article so purchased.
ART. 12. VOTED: To raise and appropriate the sum of $2,500.00 for the Maintenance of Chapter 90, highways: said money to be used in conjunction with any money which may be allotted by the State or County, or both, for this purpose.
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ART. 14. VOTED: To establish a Road Machinery Account, to which shall be accredited all receipts received for the use of rental of road machinery, the proceeds to be appropriated as voted by the Town for road machinery purposes.
ART. 15. VOTED: To accept Myrtle Street, as laid out by the Road Commissioners with the boundaries and measurements as shown on file with the Town Clerk.
ART. 16. VOTED: To accept White Street, as laid out by the Road Commissioners, with the boundaries and measurements as shown on the plan on file with the Town Clerk.
ART. 17. VOTED: To accept Laite Road, as laid out by the Road Commissioners, with the boundaries and measurements as shown on the plan on file with the Town Clerk.
ART. 18. VOTED: To accept an extension on Sunnyslope Avenue, as laid out by the Road Commissioners, with the boundaries and measurements as shown on the plan on file with the Town Clerk.
ART. 19. VOTED: To accept an extension on Highlandview Avenue, as laid out by the Road Commissioners, with the boundaries and measurements as shown on the plan on file with the Town Clerk.
ART. 20. VOTED: To accept an extension on School Street, as laid out by the Road Commissioners, with the boundaries and measure- ments as shown on the plan on file with the Town Clerk.
ART. 21. VOTED: To accept Robinson Avenue, as laid out by the Road Commissioners, with boundaries and measurements as shown on the plan on file with the Town Clerk.
ART. 22. VOTED: To transfer the sum of $1,058.00, balance of the Hurricane Relief Fund, which was alloted to the Highway Depart- ment in 1938, to be used by the Highway Department for additional labor and materials on Chapter 81 Streets.
ART. 23. VOTED: To refer this Article to the Highway Department. ART. 24. VOTED: To lay on the table. (And take up under Article 3.) ART. 25. VOTED: To lay on the table. (And take up under Article 3.) ART. 26. Indefinitely postponed.
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ART. 27. VOTED: To lay on the table. (And take up under Article 3.) ART. 28. VOTED: To lay on the table. (And take up under Article 3.) ART. 29. VOTED: To lay on the table. (And take up under Article 3.) ART. 30. VOTED: To lay on the table. (And take up under Article 3.) ART. 31. VOTED: To lay on the table. (And take up under Article 3.) ART. 32. VOTED: To refer to the Highway Department the repair- ing and drainage of Summer Street, and to lay on the table that part of the Article to instal a light on said Street and take up under Article 3., Street Lighting.
ART. 33. Motion to indefinitely postpone. Moderator in doubt of vote. Louis O. Berube and Abbott Battles appointed and sworn in as Tellers by the Moderator, and count taken. Fifty-seven in favor of indefinite postponement and one hundred seventeen opposed.
VOTED: To raise and appropriate the sum of $360.00 to main- tain the services of Police Officer at the schools in the Centre and that the janitors of schools in other parts of the Town receive the necessary qualifications to guard the safety of the children at their respective schools.
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