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Provision was made for paying out of the "War Loan " the sum of twenty-three hundred dollars, to those furnishing sub- stitutes under the draft of Aug. 6, 1863; for paying "the sub- scription loan " so called ($4100) ; to provide for the families of soldiers in the United States service ($3000) ; and to pay each volunteer under the call of Dec. 19, 1864, the sum of $100, in addition to what the town voted on the meeting of Dec. 12,1864, and that the same sum be also paid to drafted men.
At this meeting the town first voted to purchase a safe, the sum of $200 being appropriated for that purpose.
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The town went still further at a meeting called on March 29, and voted to pay "Each principal or drafted man who shall here- after put in a substitute to fill the quota under the call of the President of Dec. 19, 1864, a sum sufficient to make the bounty four hundred and seventy-five dollars for three years, and three hundred dollars for one or two years."
This year Samuel Cony was for the third time the Republican candidate for governor, while the Democrats again nominated Joseph Howard. Gov. Cony was re-elected by his usual large majority. He received in Camden 341 votes, and Mr. Howard received 231.
Abel Merriam, Republican, was elected Representative to the Legislature receiving 303 votes while Wm. H. Washburn, Democrat, received 255.
A town meeting was called Sept. 23, at which C. W. Follans- bee was elected Town Clerk to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of E. T. G. Rawson, and Edward Freeman was elected First Selectman to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of S. T. Cleveland.
At the same meeting the town again raised money by loan to pay bounties. This loan was to be negotiated on notes of the town, for bounties due Aug. 19, preceding, and was not to exceed $10,000.
At this period the war debt of the town had mounted to the enormous sum of $90,000.
Mark Bucklin died this year. Mr. Bucklin was the son of Barak Bucklin, one of the earliest of the town's settlers. Barak came from Rhode Island, to Camden about 1771, and settled in the southern part of the town. He married Ruth, sister of Will- iam Porterfield. Mark was born in Camden, 1791. He married Hannah Merrill of Bristol, Maine, and lived on the farm next to the Merrill place. He took part in the war of 1812 and was a pensioner of that war. He was one of the teamsters who went across the country to Portland with goods taken from the captured
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British vessel at Camden during that war. He was 74 years of age at the time of his death. His children were Bethana (who married Capt. James Wallace), Edward, Wilson, Horace and Austin, (all sea captains who settled at Rockland), Georgia (who married Otis A. Fish) and Clara.
Capt. John Glover died this year on March 5, at the age of 76 years. Capt. Glover was born in Framingham, Mass., and when two years of age came to North Haven, Maine, where he lived until 1840, when he removed to Camden purchasing the farm on the Belfast Road now known as "Sagamore Farm." Capt. Glover was for many years a successful ship-master, com- manding many large vessels in the days when the American mer- chant marine was at its zenith. Capt. Glover was a prominent Mason joining Amity Lodge during his residence at North Haven, and was its twentieth Master, serving in that capacity in 1848 and in 1860. He was District Deputy Grand Master in 1865 and 1866. Capt. Glover married Martha White, daughter of Maj. Gen. George White, of the Revolutionary War, by whom he had eight children, viz : Thomas, Mary (who married Rev. W. O. Thomas), Sarah (who married Benj. Cushing, 2d), John W., Martha W., (who married Dr. H. B. Eaton), James R., George W., Clara F. For his second wife he married Susan Walker, and for his third wife, Mrs. Sarah Graffam. His son, Capt. John W. Glover who was born in 1821, was one of the most successful master mariners of the day, commanding many notable vessels snd sailing on long voyages to all parts of the globe. He died in 1863, at the age of 42 years, of cholera, at Calcutta. He married Sarah C., daughter of Joseph Stetson, and the children born were three, William F., Charles B., and Joseph S.
Simon Hunt who died June 20, 1865, was one of the many young men, who, at about the begining of the 19th Century, came to Camden from Massachusetts and New Hampshire, and who seemed, for a time to contradict the familiar saying that " Westward the Star of Empire takes its way." Mr. Hunt was
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born in Concord, Mass., Oct. 11, 1784, within sight of the sacred spot where the "embattled farmers stood," when they fired the shots on that famous bridge that gave the first check to British tyranny, and opened the way for the establishment of American liberty. He came to Camden in 1806 and established himself here as a manufacturer of harnesses and saddles. This business is still continued in the family name, thus rounding out a full cen- tury. The quiet of his life was disturbed during the war of 1812, when, with several other young men as he was sailing in the bay to get a nearer view of the hostile English fleet, he was taken prisoner and carried to Castine where he was held "in durance vile " for several days. For this forced service to his country he received a pension in later years. In 1818, Mr. Hunt married Hannah Bradford, daughter of Capt. Thomas and Hannah Rogers. Her father was for some years in charge of the shipyard of Gen. Knox at Thomaston, thus giving her opportunities of visiting the home of Madam Knox. Being gifted in conversation her recol- lections of those visits were full of interest and seemed to take one back into the very atmosphere of Washington and the days of the Revolution. After Mr. Hunt's marriage he at once established a home in the residence on Elm street now occupied by his daugh- ter, Mrs. Hannah R. Locke. Mr. Hunt had a quiet and unos- tentatious life always controlled by a strong sense of justice united with a keen sense of humor, which, undiminished in advancing years, kept him in touch with young and old. He was a con- stant attendant upon church service throughout his life and was throughly imbued with the good old fashioned ideas of moral rectitude and business integrity. The children of Simon and Hannah Hunt were Thomas H., Simon, Hannah R., (who married John L. Locke) and Abel.
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CHAPTER XLVII.
THE DAWN OF PEACE.
1865. At the beginning of this year the war of the Re- bellion was still in full swing and it looked as though it might take a long time yet to subdue the South. In December, 1864, the President had issued a call for more soldiers, and in response to the same the following Camden men enlisted in the early part of 1865 : Cornelius T. Hosmer, Walter Millay, Jeremiah Nutt, John Studley, Ambrose P. Upham, Benj. C. Vannah, Charles E. Welch, Benj. F. Arey, Amos Davis and Nathaniel Libby. These men belonged to what was at first styled "unassigned infantry " but were afterwards a part of Co. F. of the Twelfth Regiment. Sanford G. Parker of Camden also joined the Fifteenth Regiment.
Camden was well represented in the Navy. In addition to the names already given Camden furnished for the Navy during the last half of the war the following : Charles Anderson, Maurice Alvis, Simeon Y. Butler, Joseph Brown, Leon Brummell, Charles F. Blackington, Joseph Brown, Alford Crockett, Charles E. Clark, William Coniston, Henry O. Davis, Oliver Davis, Thomas Edwards, Lawrence Furgerson, Charles Fox, John Fletcher, Eben F. Gray, John F. Grant, David H. Hall, James R. Howard, Albert A. Hartford, Antone Joseph, Thomas Kelley, Henry Lilling, Thomas McDonald, Miles G. Miller, William Miles, Charles Nelson, Joseph Pierce, John Pride, John Ryan, Francis Redman, Thomas Redman, Joseph F. Stetson, John Sawyer, John G. Sinclair,
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Charles A. Stockwell, Alvin F. Tolman, George Turner, William H. Thorndike, Patrick Welch, John H. Williams, William T. Crocker, and Charles A. Warren, 1 besides some not mentioned here who were, during the war, transferred from the Army to the Navy. Of these men Joseph F. Stetson held the rank of Ensign serving until the end of the war and resigning his com- mission in July, 1865.
During the winter of 1865, Gen. Sherman, who had split the Confederacy asunder by his famous march "from Atlanta to the sea ", was thundering north towards Richmond, while Grant lay quietly in Virginia holding the army of Lee and preventing it from moving to the assistance of Johnston in North Carolina, in an attempt to crush Sherman, and every week tightening his grip upon the throat of the now desperate Confederacy.
On April 1, Grant ordered all his guns, in front of Peters- burg, to open upon the enemy's works and the city, and the next day the Union infantry assailed and carried some of the works. Lee saw that the prospect of holding on longer was hope- less, and after telegraphing to Jefferson Davis to evacuate Rich- mond, attempted to make his escape. Richmond fell, and Lee after making a last desperate charge in a final attempt to break through the Union lines, surrendered at Appomattox on April 9, and the long and bloody war was over. "The Last Act" in the drama of the Rebellion was performed by the gallant hero of Little Round Top, Gen. Joshua L. Chamberlain, who was selected to command the detachment of Union troops to be marshalled
1. Some of these names are unfamiliar to Camden people and were sub- stitutes coming from other towns and not residents of Camden. In a few cases the same is true of substitutes for drafted men in the army. Among the army substitutes whose names have not been mentioned - some of whom were Camden men and some not - were, John R. Gordon, William Metcalf, Edward York, Esbun E. Weed and Lora A. Nesbit, who entered the service in 1863 ; Daniel R. Williams, Joseph Bishop, Wm. MeLaughlin, Chas. E. Rodgers, Charles Crosby, Philander Dodge, Llewellyn Keller, Wm. Green, Edward D. Redman, Samuel R. Stevens and Henry S. Simmons, in 1864 ; Joseph E. Clough and Charles Boulden, in 1865. There may be others not mentioned. We have endeavored to mention all, as we have been able to collate them from various reports of the Adjutant General and other sources.
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in the military function of receiving in proper parade, the sur- render of the enemy's arms and colors from the hands of those who carried them. Chamberlain called for his old brigade for this special duty, composed in part of the Twentieth Maine Regiment, and the First Maine Sharpshooters. It took all day to perform this ceremony, and when it was completed the duty of the Army of the Potomac was ended and peace was fully assured.
The various regiments then proceeded to Washington where on May 23, took place the grand review of the Army of the Potomac after which the most of the Maine troops returned to their homes amid great rejoicing. The Second Battery and Nineteenth Regiment came in June, the Sixth Battery and Twentieth Regiment in July and the First Cavalry in August. The Eighth Regiment, camped at Richmond until August, when it was ordered to Manchester where and at Fortress Monroe it remained until June 18, 1866, when it was mustered out of the United States service, and proceeded to Augusta where its mem- bers were discharged. The new companies of the Twelfth Regi- ment remained on duty at Savannah until the expiration of the term of service of the "one year men" in February and March, 1866, when they were discharged. The "two and three years men," continued on duty until April 18 following, when the whole battalion was mustered out and allowed to return to Maine.
We have briefly followed, as best we could, the Camden soldiers through the Great Rebellion. The rejoicing in Camden, "When the boys came marching home; " the joy of families re- united; the happiness at the long looked for home coming of father, brother, husband, son and sweetheart; the exultation of the public heart, mingled with sorrow for the great loss sustained from those citizens who could never more return; 1 are well re-
1. So far as we have been able to ascertain, Camden, had 19 men killed in battle and 43 who died of wounds and disease, making 62 Camden soldiers and sailors to give up their lives in the great rebellion. They were as follows : Killed : Wm. C. Arey, 6th Battery, at Cedar Mountain ; Geo. S.
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membered by our older people. Maine had a right to rejoice. The Union was preserved. Our Republican government was vindicated. The starry banner of freedom floated in undisputed supremacy from Canada to the Gulf. And in bringing about this great result Maine had performed a grand and noble part. Not a flag was lost throughout the war by Maine troops. No braver or better soldiers and sailors fought on either side than those from Maine. So rightly Maine rejoiced, and so rightly all the great North rejoiced ; and the great South -although then cast down - now, its wounds healed by time, equally rejoices over an un-
Cobb, 19th Regt., at Petersburg, Oct. 17, 1864 ; Albert B. Currier, Gunboat Jackson, at Mobile ; John F. Carey, 19th Regt., at Gettysburg ; Prince A. Dunton, 13th Mass., at Gettysburg ; Henry Ewell, Jr, 26th Regt., at Irish Bend ; Geo. W. Gregory. 1st Cav. Regt., near Dinwiddie Court House ; George G. Gardiner, Corporal, 4th Regt., Gettysburg ; Harvey C. Joice, 19th Regt; Michael Kerons, 8th Regt .; Francis M. Leach. 20th Regt .; John D. Leach, 20th Regt., Wilderness ; Charles A. Miller, 17 U. S. Inf., Gettysburg ; Samuel J. Needham, 4th Regt., transferred to Navy and killed by explosion of boiler; Henry T. Ogier, 8th Regt., transferred to Navy, killed at Fort Fisher by ex- plosion of shell ; Manassah Spear, D. C. Cav., drowned in transport ; Thos. F. Simpson, 2d Battery, Wilderness, by sharpshooters ; Geo. L. Simmons, D. C. Cav., Reams' Station ; Albert E Studley, 6th, Battery ; Frederick M. Veazie, 26th Regt. and 1st Cav., supposed drowned ; Joseph W. Wilson, 19th Regt., Gettysburg ; Joseph Weed, 8th Regt., Wilderness.
The following are reported as dying in prison : Geo. W. Anderson, 4th Regt., at Richmond ; Dexter C. Calderwood, at Belle Isle ; Wm J. Collins, 4th Regt., at Richmond ; Warren B. Thorndike, 19th Regt.
The following as dying in hospital : Wilson Ames, 30th Regt., Washington ; Frederick J. Currier. 6th Battery, Washington ; William Conway, Navy. Brooklyn ; Francis French, 26th Regt., New Orleans ; Edward J. Hopkins, 26th Regt., New Orleans ; Geo. H. Prince, 26th Regt., and D. C. Cav .; Emery S. Upham, 2d Battery.
The following as dying in Army : Horatio Collamore; Chas. L. Fletcher, 2d Battery ; Lewis Upham ; Frederick R. Estabrook, Asst. Surgeon 24th Regt., died at New Orleans.
Died of disease: Dexter C. Andrews, 2d Battery ; Charles Andrews, 26th Regt .; Franklin Achorn, 4th Regt .; Samuel Annis, 26th Regt .; Minot N. Barnes, 26th Regt .; Orrin P. Benner, 19th Regt .; Micah Flagg, 19th Regt .; Geo. N. Farnham, 19th Regt .; Franklin Fish, 19th Regt .; Wm. W. Flye, 17th U. S. Inf .; Wilford B. Glover, 26 Regt .; David B. Hall, 7th Regt .; Isaac G. Keller, 9th Regt .; Leander Manchester, Navy ; Oliver Metcalf, 8th Regt .; Hartwell Melvin, 2d Battery ; Leander Mariner, 19th Regt .; Joseph Morton, 26th Regt .; Wm. H. H. Simonton, 19th Regt .; Wm. H. Shibles, 19th Regt .; Albert Tolman, New Orleans Regt .; Isaiah Tolman, 26th Regt .; John E. Thorndike, 15th Regt .; , George E. Thorndike, 26tlı Regt.
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divided land, for
-" those opposed eyes,
Which, like the meteors of a troubled heaven,
All of one nature, of one substance bred,
Did lately meet in th' intestine shock,
Shall now, in mutual well-beseeming ranks March all one way."
1866. With the close of the war the business of the town revived and the returned soldiers took up again their former vocations. The town itself also seemed to have a revival of busi- ness, a large number of new roads were laid out and other matters that the absorbing events of the war had caused our citizens to overlook, came up for adjustment.
At the annual town meeting held this year on March 12, there were forty-nine articles in the warrant, the greatest number upon which the town had ever been called to act. Many of them related to new roads, a large number being accepted, while a few were rejected. At this meeting C. W. Follansbee was elected Town Clerk ; Edward Freeman, C. F. Richards and Thomas Hemingway, Selectmen ; and Hiram Bass, Treasurer.
This meeting established the custom that has since obtained to a considerable extent, of exempting new industries from taxa- tion for a term of years as an encouragement to their establish- ment or continuance, by voting to exempt from taxation, for a period of five years "The buildings, establishments, capital and machinery of an Anchor factory and iron works therewith connect- ed."
This year the Republicans nominated for governor the popu- lar war hero, Gen. Joshua L. Chamberlain, and the Democrats the "Silver tongued orator of the Kennebec," Eben F. Pillsbury. Gen. Chamberlain was elected by an overwhelming majority.
In Camden the vote stood as follows : Chamberlain, 413 ; Pillsbury, 333. William H. Washburn of Camden was one of the Democratic candidates for senator receiving 335 votes to 412 for his opponent. As the Republicans carried the county, Mr. Wash-
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burn was not elected.
James Perry, Republican, was elected Representative to the Legislature, receiving 401 votes, while his Democratic opponent, Nathaniel G. Gould, received 337, and Robert Mclaughlin re- ceived 1.
This year Keystone Chapter No.24 of Royal Arch Masons, was chartered by the Grand Chapter. The Charter is dated Aug. 7, 1866, and was signed by Josiah H. Drummond, Grand High Priest and Ira Berry, Grand Secretary. The new Chapter was organized Aug. 18, the following being the first officers ; Thad- deus R. Simonton, High Priest ; James Perry, King; Hosea B. Eaton, Scribe ; J. W. Simonton, Secretary ; Elbridge G. Knight, Treasurer ; P. J. Carleton, Capt. of the Host ; Fred E. Richards, Principal Sojourner ; E. G. Knight, Royal Arch Captain ; Freder- ick Conway, Master of 3d Vail; Israel Decrow, Master of 2d Vail ; John Wiley, Master of 1st Vail. This Chapter is still in active operation and is one of the most flourishing of the Chapters, of the State. 1
Nathan Brown, an old an respected citizen, died Sept. 14, 1865, being but a few days short of 94 years of age. Mr. Brown was another native of Concord, Mass., who in early life settled in Camden. He was born Sept. 26, 1771. He married Susanna Barrett at Concord, Nov. 7, 1802. Mr. Brown's residence was the house on Chestnut street now known as the Messer house. Mr. Brown was much interested in town affairs and possessed the esteem and confidence of his fellow townsmen. He served the town as Treasurer and in other capacities. His children were Harriet (who married Joseph C. Stetson ) Mary Ann (who married Joseph Jones ) Susan and Louisa (who married Henry Barrett.)
1867. The annual town meeting this year was held March 18, at which the following officers were elected : Francis H. Shaw, Town Clerk; C. F. Richards, Andrew McCobb and
1. For a detailed history of Capitular Masonary in Camden, see Robin- son's History of Keystone Chapter No. 24, R. A. M.
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Thomas Hemingway, Selectmen and Hiram Bass, Treasurer.
This year, as in the meeting of the preceding year, many new roads were voted upon and accepted.
The town instructed the selectmen to ascertain the amount of the War Debt, with the view of presenting the same to the State or the United States for adjustment,
A town meeting was called, June 3, to vote upon an Act of the Legislature approved March 1, 1867, entitled "An Act, additional to and amendatory of Chapter 33 to the Laws of 1858 for the suppression of drinking houses and tippling shops." By another act, approved at the same time, entitled "An Act to ascertain the will of the people concerning the sale of intoxicating liquors," the people were called to vote upon the original act and if a majority should vote "No" the same was to be considered repealed. The Act was approved by the people and continued the law. In Camden the vote was as follows : "Ballots with 'Yes' written thereon, 95 ; ballots with 'No' written thereon, none." This vote apparently shows the sentiment of the people of Camden on the temperance question forty years ago. The vote was small, but those opposing the law either through indifference or some other cause did not register their votes.
Governor Chamberlain and Eben F. Pillsbury were again the candidates of the Republican and Democratic parties respectively in 1867. The vote was somewhat smaller than the year pre- ceding and Gov. Chamberlain's majority was correspondingly reduced but was ample.
In Camden, Chamberlain received 417 votes, and Pillsbury, 384.
Abel Merriam of Camden, was one of the Republican candi- dates for senator, receiving 410 votes, but the Democrats, being successful in Knox County senatorial elections, he was defeated.
Edwin C. Fletcher of Camden, was the Democratic candi- date for Register of Deeds, and received a fine endorsement in his own town, his vote being 407, against 396 for his opponent,
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Geo. W. White. Mr. Fletcher would have been elected by about 300 majority but for the fact that some 400 ballotts were cast for Edward C. Fletcher, which resulted in his being counted out and Mr. White being declared elected.
For the first time for several years Camden elected a Demo- cratic Representative to the Legislature, giving Philander J. Carleton, 417 votes, and Thaddeus R. Simonton, the Republican candidate, 390.
1867. Camden village had now grown to be a large place and it needs had greatly increased. Often it was unable to obtain appropriations from the town for things that it really needed and its people also, at times, felt that there would be impropriety in asking the town to make assessments for things that it wanted. That it might have a better opportunity to provide itself with these things, its people petitioned the Legislature for a charter for a Village Corporation, which was granted this year. The first meeting of the Corporation was organized in accord- ance with the provisions of the Charter, in March, 1867, at which meeting Elbridge G. Knight, H. H. Cleveland and G. W. Thorn- dike were elected the first board of Assessors. 1
1. For the act incorporating Camden Village Corporation, see Acts and Resolves of 1867; Private and Special Laws, Chap. 266. The following are assessors of the Corporation from 1868 to the present time. 1868-1870, N. C. Fletcher, E. M. Wood, J. F. Stetson; 1871-1872, E. M. Wood, B. C. Adams, E. C. Fletcher; 1873, E. M. Wood, G. W. Thornkike, F. H. Calderwood; 1874, N. C. Fletcher, B. C. Gould, David Knowlton; 1875, D. H. Bisbee, H. A. Mills, D. W. Russell; 1876-1877, J. F. Hosmer, D. H. Bisbee, D. W. Russell; 1878, L. P. Harwood, Johnson Knight, L. W. Martin; 1879, L. P. Harwood, O. Farnsworth, L. W. Martin ; 1880-1881, J. H. Montgomery, J. C. Curtis, John F. Tobin; 1882, D. H. Bisbee, D. W. Russell, W. W. Perry; 1883, Joshua Adams, C. T. Hosmer, A. J. Q. Knowlton; 1884, Isaac Coombs, A. J. Q. Knowlton, J. C. Curtis; 1885, H. M. Bean, D. H. Bisbee, W. W. Perry; 1886, H. M. Bean, D. H. Bisbee, C. K. Miller; 1887, E. F. Knowlton, A. Miller, Jr , E. R. Ogier; 1888, Isaac Coombs, F. G. Currier, F. O. Clark; 1889, W. V. Lane, E. R. Ogier, I. M. Strong; 1890, W. V. Lane, E. R. Ogier, F. S. Sherman; 1891, W. V. Lane, F. S. Sherman, W. R. Gill; 1892-1898, W. V. Lane, W. R. Gill, L. M. Kenniston ; 1899-1900, W. R. Gill. L. M. Kenniston, Geo. F. Wentworth; 1901-1903, W. R Gill, L. M. Kenniston, F. G. Currier ; 1904-1906, T. A. Hunt, L. M. Kenniston, F. G. Currier.
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CHAPTER XLVIII.
THE CAMDEN HERALD.
1868. The annual town meeting was held March 16, and the principal town officers elected were F. H. Shaw, Town Clerk ; Ephraim M. Wood, Chas. F. Richards and Chas. A. Sylvester, Selectmen ; Hiram Bass, Treasurer. It was voted to build two engine houses, one for Camden village and one for Rockport village.
Gov. Chamberlain and Eben F. Pillsbury, were this year, for the third time, opposing gubernatorial candidates in the state election, the governor being again elected by a large majority. The Camden vote was as follows : Chamberlain, 454 ; Pillsbury, 440 ; showing that the Democrats had made large gains in town, over their votes in former elections.
Nathaniel T. Talbot of Camden was again the Republican candidate for Judge of Probate, but his opponent, John C. Leven- saler of Thomaston, was elected. The two candidates, in Camden, had the same vote, 441 for each.
Edwin C. Fletcher of Camden was, this year, the Democratic candidate for Register of Probate and was elected. He received, in town, 456 votes, and his opponent, 435.
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