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To any of the Constables of the Town of Wilbraham in the County of Hampden:
GREETING :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are hereby directed to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Wilbraham qualified to vote in Town affairs to meet in Wilbraham Memorial School in said Town on Saturday, the sixteenth day of March next at 8:30 a. m. to bring in their votes for Town Officers and act on the following articles. The polls will open at 8:30 a. m. and may be closed at 6:30 p. m. All business of said meeting and election of Town Officers except the election of such officers and the determination of such matters as by law are required to be elected or determined by ballot shall be considered after 10:00 o'clock a. m.
ARTICLE 1. To choose a Moderator, a Town Clerk, a Town Treasurer, a Town Collector, a Tree Warden and Auditor for the ensuing year; one Selectman for three years who shall be a member of the Board of Public Wel- fare and Board of Health, one Assessor for three years; one Assessor for one year; one Water Commissioner for three years; one Cemetery Commissioner for three years; one Cemetery Commissioner for one year; one Library Trustee for three years ; one School Committee Member for three years; one School Committee Member for one year; four members of a Regional School Committee, one for one year, two for two years, one for three years; one mem- ber of the Planning Board for five years; five Constables for the ensuing year, all on one ballot. Also all other Town Officers.
ARTICLE 2. To hear and act on reports of the Selectmen, Board of Public Welfare, Treasurer and other officers or committees.
ARTICLE 3. To fix the compensation of all elected Town Officers for the ensuing year.
ARTICLE 3. Recommend that compensation for elected Town Offi- cers be fixed as follows: Town Clerk $1,300.00 per year - all fees to re- vert to the Town Treasury; Town Treasurer, $1,300.00 per year; Mod- erator, $50.00 Annual Town Meetings, $15.00 Special Town Meetings; Town Collector, $2,750.00 per year - all fees to revert to the Town Treasury; Tree Warden, $1.50 per hour (includes use of car); Select-
Bold face type appearing after some articles are the recommendations of the Financial Committee.
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men, 2 members $600.00 per year, Chairman $650.00; Assessors, $1.50 per hour (includes use of car when needed); Constables, $1.50 per hour when called on duty by Selectmen, plus fees; Auditor, $200.00 per year; School Committee, no salary; Cemetery Commissioners, no salary, $1.50 per hour for time spent at work; Water Commissioners, $150.00 per year; Library Trustees, no salary; Planning Board Mem- bers, no salary; Poundkeeper, Field Drivers, Weighers of Grain, Surveyors of Lumber, Measurers of Wood and Charcoal (all town officers elected otherwise than by official ballot) fees only as fixed by General Laws.
ARTICLE 4. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Town Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1957, 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 of the General Laws.
ARTICLE 4. Recommend.
ARTICLE 5. To raise such sums of money as may be deemed necessary for defraying the expenses of the Town for the ensuing year and appropriate the same and vote how the same shall be raised.
ARTICLE 5.
griculture
$150.00
A Dependent Children
1,000.00
P ... . 0 Disabled
6,000.00
Assessors Expense Account
750.00
Board of Health
6,000.00
Building Inspector's Expense Account
100.00
Cemeteries
1,800.00
Civil Defense
3,000.00
Community Program - Schools
4,800.00
Dead Wood Chapter 761
2,500.00
Dental Clinic
1,050.00
Election Expense
500.00
Fire Department
15,200.00
Forest Warden
700.00
General Relief
5,000.00
Hampden-Wilbraham Regional School
7,286.57
Highways - Miscellaneous
18,500.00
Insurance and Bonding
3,500.00
Interest
50.00
Legal
1,000.00
Library Expense
9,171.27
Memorial Day and Independence Day
250.00
Mosquito Control
2,250.00
Old Age Assistance
21,000.00
Parks
370.00
Pest Control Chapter 660
2,120.00
Planning Board Expense
500.00
Playground Expense
3,152.00
Police
16,362.00
Printing Town Reports
1,850.00 75.00
Road Machinery Operating Expense
4,000.00
Safety Committee Expense
2,050.00
Schools
446,951.00
School Bonds and Interest (1949)
21,570.00
Registrars Expense
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School Bonds and Interest (1953)
25,605.00
School Bonds and Interest (1956)
38,037.50
School Interest (Stony Hill Road) (1957)
5,500.00
Selectmen's Contingency Account
1,500.00
Street Lights
4,700.00
Town Clerk's Expense Account
100.00
Town Collector's Expense Account
650.00
Town Officers and Employees Salaries
29,000.00
Town Office and Buildings Maintenance
4,200.00
Town Treasurer's Expense Account
400.00
Town Treasurer's Expense Account - Land Court
250.00
Tree Warden's Expense Account
1,500.00
Veterans' Benefits
4,500.00
Water Bonds and Interest (1955)
6,942.50
Water Department - Maintenance
23,000.00
Water Notes and Interest (1953)
11,462.50
Water Notes and Interest (1947)
2,514.07
Well Child Clinic
900.00
Wilbraham Contributory Retirement Account - Town's Portion
5,411.66
$776,731.07
ARTICLE 6. To see what disposition the Town will make of the Dog Tax of 1956.
ARTICLE 6. Recommend $950.23 be added to Library Appropri- ation.
ARTICLE 7. To see if the Town will vote to rajo~ and appropriate, or transfer from unappropriated a funds in the treasury, a sum of money for Chaple : Highway work, or take any other action relative thereto. ARTICLE 7. Recommend.
ARTICLE 8. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, or transfer from unappropriated available funds in the treasury, a sum of money for Chapter 90 Highway Maintenance, or take any other action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 8. Recommend.
ARTICLE 9. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, or transfer from unappropriated available funds in the treasury, a sum of money for Chapter 90 Highway Construction, or take any other action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 9. Recommend.
ARTICLE 10. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, or transfer from available funds in the treas- ury, a sum of money for the permanent construction of Monson Road, or take any other action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 10. Recommend.
ARTICLE 11. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and transfer from unappropriated available funds in the treasury the sum of $15,000.00 or any other sum to be spent by the Water Department for additional household and business installations for water service, the cost of
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which is to be collected by the Town from the individuals or concerns requesting installations, and which is returned to surplus funds, or take any other action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 11. Recommend.
ARTICLE 12. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Selectmen to cause a study to be made of the procedure for the holding of the Annual Town Meeting and election of officers, with power, if they see fit, to appoint a com- mittee of citizens to assist them, such a study to include the advisability of a division of the town into convenient voting districts; and to report their recommendations at the next Annual Town Meeting, or if they see fit, at any Special Town Meeting that may be called sooner.
ARTICLE 13. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Town By-Laws so as to provide for the election of a School Committee of five members instead of three members, or take any other action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 14. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $2,500.00 or any other sum, to lay 625 feet of 6 inch water main, with appropriate hydrants, on Railroad Avenue, northerly from Boston Road, or take any other action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 14. Will make recommendation at Town Meeting.
ARTICLE 15. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $900.00 or any other sum to defray part of the cost of laying 540 feet of 6 inch water main on Bulkley Road, or take any other action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 15. Will make recommendation at Town Meeting.
ARTICLE 16. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $325,000.00 or any other sum to lay a 16 inch water main from the end of the existing main on South Main Street, westerly on Tinkham Road to Stony Hill Road to the end of the existing 8 inch main; then easterly on Boston Road from the end of the existing 8 inch main to the corner of Main and Maple Streets, and determine whether the money shall be provided for by taxation, by appropriation from available funds in the treasury, and/or by borrowing under authority of Chapter 44 of the General Laws, or take any other action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 16. Not recommended.
ARTICLE 16A. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate a sum of money not to exceed $100,000.00 to lay a 14 inch water main from the existing main at the corner of Main Street and Faculty Street and running westerly on Faculty Street and continuing westerly on Springfield Street to the existing water main at the intersection of Springfield
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Street and Stony Hill Road; and to lay a 12 inch water main from such intersection northerly on Stony Hill Road a distance of 2400 feet more or less to the beginning of the present 8 inch water main, and determine whether the money shall be provided for by taxation, by appropriation from available funds in the treasury, and/or by borrowing under authority of Chapter 44 of the General Laws, or take any other action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 16A. Will make recommendation at Town Meeting.
ARTICLE 17. To hear the report of the Fire Commis- sioners as instructed under Article 15 of the warrant of the Annual Town Meeting held March 5, 1955, consider its recommendations relative to a site for a new fire sta- tion near Wilbraham Center, and determine the procedure for acquiring title to the land chosen for a site.
ARTICLE 17A. To see if the Town will raise and appro- priate the sum of $3,500.00 or any other sum to purchase a site for a new fire station on the west side of South Main Street, opposite the intersection of Monson Road, property now owned by Harold Porter consisting of ap- proximately 13/4 acres more or less, and the Selectmen be authorized and empowered in behalf of the Town to pur- chase said land, or take any other action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 17A. Recommend.
ARTICLE 18. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and transfer from unappropriated available funds in the treasury the sum of $5,000.00 or any other sum to pay the garbage collector, with receipts from garbage collec- tion subscribers to be restored as received by the Town Collector to unappropriated available funds in the treasury, or take any other action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 18. Recommend.
ARTICLE 19. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Zoning By-Law by changing the classification of the prop- erty below described, from Business District and Residence B District to Industrial, namely land owned by Marjorie Harrington, situated on the southerly side of Boston Road ; bounded and described as follows: northerly by Boston Road 1169.68 feet, easterly by land now or formerly owned by Giacomo Alberici 406.51 feet and land now or formerly owned by Michael Walsh 444.33 feet; southerly by land now or formerly owned by Jacob & Katarzyna Opalinski 1005.69 feet, to the Springfield City Line; and westerly by the City Line 184.22 feet, or take any other action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 20. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $2,000.00 or any other sum, to be expended under the joint supervision of the Planning Board and the Board of Assessors for the preparation of maps
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and plans for the use of said Planning Board and Board of Assessors, or take any other action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 20. Recommend.
ARTICLE 21. To see if the Town will vote to include on the ballot at the next Annual Town Meeting an article as follows: "Shall Chapter 32B of the General Laws, author- izing any county, city, town or district to provide a plan of group life insurance, group accidental death and dis- memberment insurance, and group general or blanket hos- pital, surgical and medical insurance for certain persons in the service of such Town or district and their dependents, be accepted by this Town ?"
ARTICLE 22. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $3,890.00 or any other sum to build a sidewalk on Stony Hill Road from the end of the exist- ing sidewalk eastward, a distance of approximately 800 feet and on Old Boston Road eastward from Stony Hill Road for a distance of approximately 800 feet, or take any other action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 22. Recommend.
ARTICLE 23. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to sell at public auction, 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 14 days at least before the sale, property taken by the Town under tax title procedure, provided that the Selectmen, or whomsover they authorize to hold such public auction, may reject any bid which they deem inadequate, or take any other action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 23. Recommend.
ARTICLE 24. To see if the Town will authorize the Select- men to institute or defend suits and employ counsel for the purpose of protecting the interests of the Town, or take any other action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 24. Recommend.
ARTICLE 25. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and transfer from the Road Machinery Fund the sum of $5,300.00 or any other sum to purchase a 21/2 ton dump truck for the use of the Highway Department, or take any other action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 25. Recommend.
ARTICLE 26. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $580.05 or any other sum to pur- chase a 5 H.P. tractor, with mowing machine and snow blowing attachments, for parks, playgrounds, and side- walks to be used under the supervision of the Selectmen, or take any other action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 26. Recommend.
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ARTICLE 27. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $12,000.00 or any other sum for a Reserve Fund to be transferred from the Overlay Surplus Account, or take any other action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 27. Recommend.
ARTICLE 28. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the purpose of increasing the Stabilization Fund, or take any other action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 28. Recommend $40,000.00 be transferred from avail- able funds and $10,000.00 be raised from taxation.
ARTICLE 29. To see if the Town will vote to accept Chap- ter 401 of the Acts of 1956, which provides that upon its acceptance in a town by vote at an Annual Town Meeting, Civil Defense volunteers shall be classified as employees of the town for the purposes of General Laws, Chapter 40, Section 5(1), and Chapter 41, Section 100A, relative to insurance and indemnification of employees against dam- ages claimed arising out of the operation of publicly owned motor vehicles.
ARTICLE 29. Recommend.
ARTICLE 30. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a public way that portion of Brookside Drive now a private way, as shown on plan of Merrill and Sears, dated February 7, 1952, beginning at the now accepted portion of said way and running southerly for a distance of 880 feet more or less, and that the sum of $1,920.00 or any other sum be raised and appropriated for construction of said Brook- side Drive, and that betterment assessments be levied in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 80 of the Gen- eral Laws, or take any other action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 30. Recommend.
ARTICLE 31. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a public way that portion of Arbor Lane now a private way, as shown on plan of C. E. Anderson, Associates, dated December 1953, beginning at the now accepted por- tion of said way and running easterly for a distance of 387.82 feet more or less.
ARTICLE 31. Recommend.
ARTICLE 32. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a public way the private way now known as Hitchcock Road, as shown on a plan entitled "Stony Hill Acres" drawn by Merrill & Sears, dated May 18, 1951, beginning at Stony Hill Road and running westerly for a distance of 642.34 feet more or less, and that the sum of $1,240.00 or any other sum be raised and appropriated for construction of said Hitchcock Road, and that betterment assessments be levied
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in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 80 of the General Laws, or take any other action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 32. Recommend.
ARTICLE 33. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a public way the private way now known as Lebel Avenue as shown on sub-division plan of "Butler Hill" drawn by John T. Casey, Reg. Land Surveyor, beginning at Boston Road and running northerly for a distance of 650 feet more or less, and that the sum of $1,735.00 or any other sum be raised and appropriated for construction of said Lebel Avenue, and that betterment assessments be levied in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 80 of the General Laws, or take any other action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 33. Recommend.
ARTICLE 34. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a public way the private way now known as Duffield Street, as shown on a plan known as the "Orchards Development" as laid out by C. E. Anderson, Associates, dated July 1953, beginning at Old Orchard Road and running southerly for a distance of 382 feet more or less, and that the sum of $702.00 or any other sum be raised and appropriated for construction of said Duffield Street, and that betterment assessments be levied in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 80 of the General Laws, or take any other action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 34. Recommend.
ARTICLE 35. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a public way the private way now known as Bradlind Ave- nue, as shown on a plan known as "Bradlind" as laid out by John T. Casey, Surveyor, dated June 1952, beginning at Boston Road and running northeasterly for a distance of 700 feet more or less, and that the sum of $1,842.00 or any other sum be raised and appropriated for construction of said Bradlind Avenue, and that betterment assessments be levied in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 80 of the General Laws, or take any other action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 35. Recommend.
ARTICLE 36. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a public way the private way now known as Overlook Drive, as shown on sub-division plan drawn by Merrill & Sears, Engineers, dated July 8, 1955, beginning at Hitchcock Road and running southerly for a distance of 561 feet more or less.
ARTICLE 36. Recommend.
ARTICLE 37. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a public way the private way known as Brainard Road, as shown on a plan of lots as drawn by Durkee, White and
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Towne, Engineers and dated April 1955, beginning at Manchonis Road Extension and running southerly for a distance of 1220 feet more or less.
ARTICLE 37. Recommend.
ARTICLE 38. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a public way the private way known as Manchonis Road Extension, as shown on a plan of lots as drawn by Durkee, White and Towne, Engineers and dated August 1954, be- ginning at Brainard Road and running westerly for a distance of 1450 feet more or less and also beginning at Brainard Road and running easterly for a distance of 356 feet more or less.
ARTICLE 38. Recommend.
ARTICLE 39. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a public way the private way known as Brookmont Drive, as shown on a sub-division plan drawn by Engineer John T. Casey, filed and approved by the Wilbraham Planning Board July 20, 1955, beginning at Main Street and run- ning easterly for a distance of 2,939.33 feet more or less.
ARTICLE 39. Recommend.
ARTICLE 40. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a public way the private way now known as Meadow View Road, as shown on sub-division plan drawn by Smith and Wallen, Engineers, dated March 1955, beginning at Soule Road and running southerly for a distance of 1617 feet more or less.
ARTICLE 40. Recommend.
ARTICLE 41. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Board of Selectmen to install one street light on Glendale Road near the residence of one Mary Otis, or take any other action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 41. Recommend postponement.
ARTICLE 42. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Board of Selectmen to install one street light on Bartlett Avenue near the residence of one Thomas L. Santucci, Sr., or take any other action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 42. Recommend postponement.
ARTICLE 43. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Board of Selectmen to install three street lights on Sunny- side Terrace, or take any other action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 43. Recommend postponement.
ARTICLE 44. To transact such other business as may properly come before said meeting.
And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting attested copies thereof, one at the Post Office at Wilbraham, one at the Post Office at North Wilbraham, and one at
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Glendale Church, seven days at least, before the time for holding said meeting. Hereof fail not and make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk on or before the time for holding said meeting.
Given under our hands this 20th day of February in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and fifty- seven.
CARL NELSON, Chairman ROGER T. HINTZE JESSE L. RICE Selectmen of Wilbraham
This unusual photograph shows a bridge, over the Chicopee River, under construction by the Toll Road Authorities.
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APPENDIX FOR 1956
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This section contains the 1956 Reports and Expenditures of all Departments, publication of which is required by vote of Town Meeting
For Appendix Table of contents see next page
Appendix - Table of Contents Reports and expenditures of all town boards and departments
Page
Page
Library Heating System Exp. 26A
Memorial Day Expenditures 26A
Milk Inspector's Report 26A New School Bldg. Exp. -
Stony Hill Road 51A
New School Exp. - Contingency - Stony Hill Road . 52A
Officials, Governmental Districts and Representatives 3A
Old Age Assistance Ex. 26A
Old Age Assist. (Adm.) Ex. 27A
Parks Expenditures 27A
Planning Board Report 27A
Planning Board Expenditures 28.A
Playground Commis. Report 28A
Playground Expenditures 29A
Police Report 29A
Police Expenditures 31A
Printing Town Reports Ex. 31A
Registrar's Expenditures 31A
Report of Supt. of Schools 42A
Report of Stony Hill School Building Committee 51A
Reserve Fund Allocations 32A
Road Machinery Oper. Ac. Ex. 32A
Safety Committee Ex. 32A
School Bonds and Int. - 1949. 50A
School Bonds and Int. -
- 1953.
50A
School Bonds and Int. - 1956 .. 51A
School Calendar 50A
School Committee Report 32A
School Statistics 49A
Sealer of Weights and Meas. 52A
Selectmen's Contingent Ex. 53 A Slaughtering Inspector's Rep. 53 A
Street Lights Expenditures 53 A
Town Calendar . 68A
Town Clerk's Report 56A
Town Clerk's Expenditures 56A
Town Collector's Report 54A Town Collector's Expenditures. . 6A 4A
Town Officers - Appointed
Town Officers - Elected 3A
Town Office and Blogs. Maint .. . 57A
Town Off. and Emp. Sal. Ex. . . Town Services - Tel. Directory 67A
56A
Town Treasurer's Ex. 60A
Treasurer's Report 57A
Treasurer's Trust Fund Rep. 59A
Tree Warden's Expenditures 60A
Veterans' Benefits 60A
Visiting Nurse Ass'n of Spfld. .. 61A
Water Bonds and Int. Ex .- 1926 61A
Water Bonds and Int. Ex .- 1955 62A Water Notes and Int. Ex .- 1947 62A
Water Notes and Int. Ex .- 1953 62A
Water Commissioners' Report .. 62A
Water Dept. Installations Ex. .. 63A Water Dept. Maintenance Ex. .. 64A Water Dept. - 16" Main
Extension Exp. 64A Well Child Clinic Expenditures. 65A Wilb. Contrib. Retire. Account (Town's Portion) Exp. ... 65A
Aid to Agriculture 5A
Aid to Agriculture Expense .
6A
Aid to Dependent Children Ex. . 6A
Aid to Dep. Chil. (Adm.) Ex. .. 6A
Aid to Disabled Expenditures ... 7A
Animal Inspector's Report 7A
Assessors' Report 7A
Assessors' Expenditures 8A
Auditor's Report 8A
Board of Health Expenditures. . 8A
Building Inspector's Report 9A
Building Inspector's Ex. 9A
Cemeteries Expenditures 9A
Civil Defense Expenditures 10A
Community Program Ex. 10A
Dental Clinic Report
10A
Dental Clinic Expenditures
Dog Officer's Report 10A
10A
Election Expenditures 11A
Fire Department Report
11A
Fire Department Expenditures .
12A
Forest Warden's Report 13A
Forest Warden's Expenditures. . 13A
Garbage Collection Service Ex. . 13A
General Relief Expenditures 14A
Gypsy Moth, Dutch Elm Disease and Pest Control Report . 14A
Gypsy Moth Dept. Exp. .
Pest Control - Chapter 60 .. 14A
Mosquito Control 15A
Dead Wood - Chapter 761 15A Highway Expenditures -
Chapter 81 15A
Chap. 90 - Const. and Imp ... 16A
Chap. 90 - Maintenance 16A Chap. 90 - So. Main Drain ... 16A Chap. 90 - Canal and Bridges 17A
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