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This was the road leading from Mason Village to Temple. Slipton was a slip or tract of land north of No. 1, and now included in Temple and Sharon.
"Voted, To rais one doler on each right for highways, and to make a bridge over the river at the mils, said mony to be
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divided as was usal, said comeett, Cornelius Cook, Ruben Bar- rat, Ins. Whitcomb Powers, Left. Obadiah Parker."
In the warrant for the meeting January 5, 1768, the 6th article was "To see if the proportors and Inhabitance will pas a vote to be Incorporated, and if so to ehnes a man or more to Goo to Portsmouth & get the same accomplished."
At the meeting it was,
"Voted, for a eomatt to make Inquryes how the Township may be incorporated. Ens. Whitcomb Powers & Capt. Thomas Tarbell & Leftenant Obadiah Parker. Then ajornd the meeting four weeks.
"The propts meet at Time & place and voted as followeth, viz : Voted, To be incorporated. Allso, Voted, That Left. Obadiah Parker disburst the money, & that he shall have a hansom reward for the same, & that he get the same Incorpo- rated as soon as may be."
In the warrant for the meeting March 8, 1768, the 3d arti- ele was,
"To see if the propts will dispose of any of the publie lots in No. 1. Namely : Lot No. 5 in 7 Raing, & No. 6 in the 5 raing. No. 1 in 3 raing, & No. 9 in 1 raing."
At the meeting it was,
"Voted, To dispose of two of the school lots, namely : No. 6 in the 5 raing, and 7 in the 1 raing, by a comeett ehosen for that sarvis, sd comectt, En. Whitcomb Powers, Capt. Thomas Tarbell, Ruben Barrett and Josiah Robens. Voted and chose for eomeet to Rectifie the mistakes in the school [lots], Jo- siah Wheeler, Enosh Lawrence and Thomas Tarbell."
The following is a copy, verbatim and literatim, of the warrant and record of the meeting, June 22, 1768:
" Where as aplieation hath ben maid to me the subscriber for calling a propts meeting of the propts of No 1. North of Townshend in the province of Newhampshirese are there fore to notifie & warn said propts to asembel & meet at the meeting house on the 22 Day of this Instant June at Nine O clock in the fore noon to act on the foleing articals :
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lly. To chues a modrater to govern said meeting.
2dly To see what the propts will chues to have the Town called.
3dly. To chnes a comeett to setel with such parsons as have ben consarned with the propts money sins the setalment with Col Lawrence ares.
4ly To see what the propts will do consarning Road to Mr Thos Barts mills
5ly To alow accompts to any persons that has don sarvis [for] said propts If they Think proper.
Gly To see if the propts will dispose of the grond of the two hind seatts to such parsons as they shall think proper, that shall make aplication
7ly To see if the propts will turn the road a few rods Through Thos. Robens Land that comes from Left Parker to the meeting house.
Test THOS TARBELL, propts Clerk.
June the 7th, 1768.
At a Legual meeting of the propts of No. one held at the meeting house on the 22 day of June 1768.
Voted & chose Josiah Robens modrator
Voted to have the Town called Sharon.
Voted for comeet to recon with the comeette [and] Tres- hureyr Joseph Bulard Ruben Baret & Olever Eliot.
Voted, for comeett to view & Lay out the road to Mr Thomas Baretts mills Obadiah Parker Nathan Whipel & John Swallow.
Voted Capt Thomas Tarbell four Dolers for his sarvis as propts Clerk To be Drawn out of the Treshery to be in full for this sarvis to this Day.
Voted not to dispose of the Ground of the two hind seats. Voted to turn the road a fue rods thrue Thos Roben Land. Then the meeting dismissed.
A True Intry. THOMAS TARBELL, propt Clerk."
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At the meeting held March 22, 1769, it was,
"Voted, To give the meeting house to the town, except the privilege of the pues."
At the meeting held October 18, 1769, it was,
" Voted, To raise two dolers on each right liabel to pay taxes in Mason, and the comeett to have their pay out of said money for their being sued for said propty for hiring preaching."
At the meeting held January 6, 1772, it was,
"Voted, To Josiah Robens one doler." [Interlined. "Robens got the doler March the 30, 1773.'']
The following is the record of the last doings of the pro- prictors :
" PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE-Hillsborough, ss.
"Pursuent to the request of more than five of the propts of Mason, in the county aforesaid, for calling a propts meet- ing, These are, therefore, To Notifie & warn the propts of sd Mason to meet at the public meeting house in Mason, afor- said, on the second Tuesday of January next, at one of the clock in the afternoon, then and there to aet on the fowling articals, to wit :
lly. To chues a moderator for the regular carying on said meeting.
2dly. To hear and examine the aceompts and demands of all persons that have any demands on the proprorts, for past services as Individuals, and they are desired to bring in the same, or Else Expect to befor Ever after debarred, &e .; and to alow such as shall apear Reasonabel, and give order for payment as the propriorts shall think proper.
3dly. To chuese a commettee to examine into the con- duct of those who have heretofore recevd any of the propts money, as Tresherer, comats or Trustees, and to enabel them to give such discharges as they shall think proper, and to report as soon as may be.
THOMAS TARBELL, propt's Clerk,
MASON, Dec. 16th, 1772.
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At a legal meeting of the propts of Mason, hild on the 12th of January, 1773,
Voted and chose Mr. Nathan Hall modrator, and voted to agorn the meeting to Mr. Samuel Abbots.
Voted for comeetee to Look into the Estait of the Tresh- ery, and to Recon with the Tresherer, or commeetes, or Trus- tes Last chosen, to sell the Delinquants propts lands, said comeet Mr. David Bloget, Mr. Reuben Baret, Mr. Oliver Eliot. Then voted to agorn the meeting to the Last Tues- day of March next, to the meeting-house in Mason, at one o clock afternoon.
March 30 the propts met acording to the agornment, and by reason of the comeet making a mistake in reconing with the Tresherer, agorned to the thirteenth day of Aprial, at three o clock afternoon, at this place. April the 13 the propts met at the time and place, and voted to agorn the meeting to the third Wednsday in May, One o clock afternoon, at this place. May the 19, then the propts met at the time and place and agorned to the first tuesday of June Next, att one oclock afternoon to this place. Test Thomas Tarbell propt Clerk."
Sic exit in fumo,-thus vanish into shadows, the original proprietors of Mason. This is their last appearance. Whether the mistake made by the "comeet in reconing with the Tresherer" was ever rectified, does not appear, and will never be known by those who at this late day, endeavor to peer into their doings. They were a worthy body of men, and deserved well of the town and of their country, for their indefatigable efforts under circumstances of great embar- rassment, in "carrying on the settlement" of the place.
Undoubtedly, before this apparently last and inconclusive meeting, all the land, except perhaps the lots reserved for schools and for the minister and ministry, had become the property of individuals ; so that there was little if anything left for the proprietary to concern itself with. The town was incorporated, and was thus made capable of taking and
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holding the fee in the said lands, for the uses set forth in the original grant of the territory. It seems that the "delin- quent propts" lands had been sold, and this last meeting had been called for the purpose of a general settlement of all out-standing claims, against' the proprietary; which it is hoped and trusted was satisfactorily made, although it does not appear of record.
CHAPTER III.
MUNICIPAL HISTORY.
Proceedings and incidents in the Municipal affairs of the town from the year 1768, to 1858.
[Copy of the Charter.]
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
PROVINCE OF George the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.
To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting :
Whereas, our Loyal Subjects, Inhabitants of a Tract of Land within our Province of New Hampshire, known by the name of No. One, and containing about five miles Square, and bounded as here- after mentioned, have Humbly petitioned and requested us, that they may be erected and incorporated into a Township, and infranchised with the same privileges which other towns within our said Province, have and Enjoy by Law, and it appearing unto us to be conducive to the General Good of Our said Province, as well as of the said Inhab- itants, in particular, by maintaining good order, and Encouraging the culture of the Land, that the same should be done; Know ye, therefore, that We, of Our Especial Grace, certain Knowledge, and for the Encouraging and promoting the good purposes and Ends aforesaid, and with the Advice of our Trusty and Well Beloved John Wentworth, Esq., Our Governor and Commander in Chief, and of Our Council for said Province, Have erected and Ordained, and by these presents, for us, our Heirs and Successors, Do will and Ordain, that the Inhabitants of the Tract of Land aforesaid, and others who shall inhabit and improve therein hereafter, the same being butted and bounded as follows, viz : Beginning at a stake and stones on the Province line, thence running on the same line, five miles and twenty rods, to the SE corner of New Ipswich, then running north on New Ipswich line, five miles to a white pine tree, to Wilton corner, then running east, on the south line of Wilton, five miles to a hemlock tree, then running south, five miles, by the Needle, to the bounds first mentioned, be and hereby are declared to be a Town Corporate, and are hereby erected and incorporated into a Body Politic and Cor- porate, to have continuance forever, by the name of Mason, with all
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1768.
the powers & authorities, Privileges, Immunities & Franchises, which any other towns in said Province by Law have and Enjoy, to the said inhabitants, or who shall hereafter inhabit there, and their successors forever, always reserving to us, our heirs and successors, all white pine trees, which are or shall be found growing and being on the said Tract of land, fit for the use of our Royal Navy ; Reserv- ing also to us, our heirs and successors, the power and right of divid- ing the said town when it shall appear necessary and convenient, for the Inhabitants thereof: Provided, nevertheless, and it is hereby de- clared, that this charter and grant is not intended, nor shall in any way or manner, be construed to extend to, or affect the private prop- erty of the soil within the limits aforesaid ; and as the several Towns within our said Province are by the Laws thereof enabled and author- ized, to assemble and by a majority of votes present, to choose all such officers, and transact such affairs, as in the said Laws are declared, We do by these presents, nominate and appoint, Obadiah Parker, Gent., to call the first meeting of said Inhabitants to be held within said town, at any time within forty days from the date hereof, giving legal notice of the time and design of holding such meeting, after which the annual meeting of said town shall be had for the choice of said officers & the purposes aforesaid, on the second Mon- day of March, annually.
In testimony whereof, we have caused the public seal of our said Province to be hereunto affixed. Witness John Wentworth, Esquire, the aforesaid Governor, the twenty-sixth day of August, in the eighth year of our reign, Anno Domini, 1768. J. WENTWORTH.
By his Excellencie's command, with advice of Council.
T. ATKINSON, JR., Sec'y.
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE .- Secretary's Office. Recorded in the Book for recording Charters of Incorporation, Pa. 303, 304.
T. ATKINSON, JR., Secretary.
At the proprietors' meeting, held January 5th, 1768, Oba- diah Parker was chosen "to Goo to Portsmouth" to get the incorporation, and was authorized to "disburst the money" therefor. This duty he attended to, and procured the charter, a copy of which is found on the preceding pages. The origi- nal charter shows the name of the town, first inserted, to have been Sharon, according to the vote of the proprietors ; but it was erased, and the name Mason substituted. This was, undoubtedly, done in compliment to John Mason the original proprietor, or to John Tufton Mason, who was one of the grantees of the original township. The above copy was transcribed from the town records; it is not certain that
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it is a true copy of the original Charter. Acts of incorpo- ration in those days, were granted by virtue of the executive or prerogative power of the Governor and not by legislative enactment. At that time it was a long and tedious journey from Mason to Portsmouth. Parker must have performed it on horse-back, or not unlikely, on foot. His "disburst- ments and charges for this service," appear by the record of the town meeting, November 7th, to have been ££12 6s. 6d. 3q. Under date of March 21st, 1769, is recorded an order to pay him £9 4s. 11d. Oq., and interest for the charges of the incorporation. The items of the bill would at this day, be a matter of great curiosity ; but they cannot be recovered.
Parker was by the charter, anthorized to call the first meeting of the inhabitants, in their corporate capacity, and he issued his warrant therefor, a copy of which, being the warrant for the first town meeting of the town, is here inserted.
"PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. By order of his Excel- lency, JOHN WENTWORTH, Esquire, and the Honorable Council, for calling a meeting of the Inhabitants and Free- holders of Mason, in order for the choice of Town officers, &c. I therefore notify and warn the Inhabitants and all Free- holders and voters by law of the Town of Mason, to meet att the meeting-house in Mason, on Monday, the nineteenth of September instant at ten of the clock in the forenoon, and when assembled and duly mett, then and there to act on the following articles; viz :
1st. To chuse a moderator.
2ly. To chuse a town clerk, Selectmen, and all other town officers, as the law directs.
3dly. To see whether the town will except the road lately laid out by Mr. Thomas Barrett's and Amos Deakin's mills and build a bridge over the river, now the water is low, and to act upon any other article, that they shall then think proper for to bring forward the town.
MASON, Sept. ye 5, 1768.
OBADIAH PARKER."
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1768.
At the meeting, Parker was chosen moderator: Josiah Wheeler, clerk; Josiah Wheeler, Obadiah Parker and Joseph Bullard, selectmen ; Reuben Barrett and John Swallow, consta- bles ; Nathan Hall, treasurer : John Asten and Jonathan Win- ship, tythingmen ; Thomas Barrett, Enosh Lawrence Jr., Lem- uel Spaulding and Josiah Robbins, surveyors of highways ; Capt. Thomas Tarbell, sealer of weights and measures ; John Asten, sealer of leather ; Richard Lawrence and Joseph Blood fence viewers ; Samuel Lawrence and Joseph Lowell, hog con- stable ; Aaron Wheeler and Oliver Elliot, deer officers.
"Voted to except the road as it was latety laid out to Mr. Thomas Barrett's and Amos Deakin's mills. Voted that all the roads formerly laid out by the proprietors, and now upon file, shall stand as town roads. Voted to build a bridge over the river by said Barrett's and Deakin's mills ; therefore, voted that Amos Deakin, Thomas Barrett and Aaron Wheeler be a comtee to effect the same."
Thus the town was fairly set up and provided with officers, its roads recognized and made valid. How the committee succeeded in building a bridge without means will in due time appear. It was also voted that the selectmen should serve without pay ; a scheme which, although it had a look of econ- omy, did not, in the end, as will appear, work well. Although everything looked fair, there was trouble ahead. Some of the officers chosen at the town meeting, refused to take the oath of office, and "therefore the selectmen appointed a town meeting in order for a new choice of such officers," &c. The meeting was called to be held on the 7th of November. In the warrant for the meeting, among other articles, was
"3dly. To see if the town will raise a sum of money to pay the charges of incorporation. to hire preaching, to pur- chase the Province laws and town books, and to defray other necessary town charges.
"4thly. To see if the town will come into any measure for further finishing the meeting house; also, to choose comttee to effect the same."
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At this meeting most of the reeusant officers were rechosen. The only change was in the highway surveyors. The new board were Elias Eliot, Ens. Enoch Lawrence, Jonathan Jefts and Joseph Blood, and in the deer officers, Aaron Wheeler taking the office alone. The sum of £33 6s. 8d. Oq. lawful was raised to pay charges of incorporation, to hire preaching and to defray other charges. At this meeting it was,
" Voted, To except a road laid out two rods wide, from New Ipswich line, through Amos Deakin's land, beginning at a heap of stones on a stump and running to a hemlock tree on the banek of the river, then running as the marks direct to the bridge," &c.
"A heap of stones on a stump," would not be regarded, in these days, as a suitable boundary to mark the limits of a road. Much exactness was not then required in the descrip- tion of the boundaries, angles, courses and distances, in lay- ing out roads. A most remarkable sample of such work, is found in the records of Townsend. It is as follows, under date of 1737: "Voted, a highway from the Pearl Hill brook to the place where the timber is cut to build a bridge, and from the said bridge to the Little Goose pond, near where Horsely and Wallis and Brown and Wyman and Woodbury, goeth along for their hay, from thence we come down the path to the hither Goose pond and over the dam thereof, from thence as marks direct across the plain, and so down the little footpath till we pass the little brook and into the cartpath by the knoll, this side of James Stevens' house, from thence down by said last path till we come to the hollow beyond Horseley's field, so along Horseley's west line to Deacon Spaulding's meadow lot, from thence over Rackkoon brook and across the corner of Manning's land, and from thence across the plain to the corner of the lot Daniel Sartell lives on, and turning said corner on John Stevens' land, and come along near the line between the lot Sartell lives on, and Ste- vens' land, to Hartshorn's brook, where the cartway goeth over, from thence on said Stevens' land between the lot afore-
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said and Hartshorn's farm to John Scales' old house place, from thence to Scales' nor east corner, which we found to be three miles and one hundred and sixty pole."
At this meeting the town,
"Voted, To allow Obadiah Parker's accompt for geting the town Incorporated, which sum is £12 6s. 6d. 3q."
Then follows in the record, a copy of the warrant to "Mr. John Swallow, one of the constables, &c., commanding him in his majesty's name, to collect £17 15s. 6d. 2q." For the assessment and collection of taxes the town was, from the first, divided into two districts-the east and the west; two constables or collectors were chosen, one in each district, to whom separate warrants were issued for the collection of the "rates." John Swallow was the constable or collector for the west side, and Reuben Barrett for the east side. A copy of the assessments committed to them is here inserted, by which it will appear who resided and were taxed on each part of the town, and what was their relative apparent ability to pay taxes ; each warrant bearing date, January 28th, 1769.
FIRST TAX LIST. WEST SIDE.
£sdqf
David Lowell, Jr.,
0.7
5:1
Josiah Robbins,
1 3
40
Nathan Whipple,
0 9 0.0
Ens. Enosh Lawrence,
11
61
John Jefts,
0 1 6 11
Samuel Lawrence,
0 8 81
John Asten,
0 7
80
John Swallow,
0 11 |412
Joseph Barrett,
0 9
212
Isaac Holdin,
0 8 70
Nathan Procter,
0 7
00
William Badcock,
0. 9
6.0
Lieut. Obadiah Parker,
0 19
012
William Barrett,
0 7 51
Joseph Bullard,
0 12
-
Nathaniel Barrett,
0:19 91
Josiah Wheeler,
0 7.
611
Jonathan Foster,
0
6 00
0
1
5 1
Stevens Lawrence,
0
6
00
Joseph Tucker,
0
C
Enosh Lawrence, Jr.,
0 10 71
0 0 82
Aaron Wheeler,
0 14
012
Mr. Will. Lawrence,
0 411 1
Nathaniel Hosmer,
0 6
1|1
Amos Deaken, Barrett,
0 0 82
John Dutton,
0 6 22
Edmund Town,
0 1 5 1
Widow Burge,
0 4 22
Joseph Lowell,
0. 6. 00
John Eliot,
0 18 10,0
Cornelius Cook,
0 6.
00
Moses Lowell,
012 01
Benjamin King,
6, 11
Richard Lawrence,
0 9 60
Dennis McLain,
0 6,00
Joseph Merriam,
09 51
David Lowell,
10 13 80
Sum Total,
17,15 62
0 7
00
Reuben Tucker, Zachariah Davis,
0 2 10 0
Thomas Robins,
Capt. Amos Lawrence,
A similar warrant was issued to "Mr. Reuben Barrett, Constable for the East side," to collect £17 10s. 7d. 1q., as follows :
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FIRST TAX LIST. EAST SIDE.
E s. d. g
Oliver Eliot,
0 11 5/2
Capt. Thomas Tarbell,
1 10 10:01
Daniel Fisk,
3 60
Elias Eliot,
0,14 11 1
Mary Jefts, Widow,
0 1: 60
Jason Russell,
0 9 20
Thomas Jefts,
01 6
21
Nathaniel Smith,
19 31
Jonathan Jefts,
0 11
1
Joseph Ross,
0 11 31
Nathan llall,
0 15
7
Nathaniel Tarbell,
0 600
James Hall,
0 6
31
Edmund Tarbell,
0
-
Patience Fish, Widow,
0:18
00
Jonathan Williams,
0
9 11|1
Eleazer Fish,
=
6
210
Reuben Barrett,
0 19 10 1
Ebenezer Blood,
0 14
20
Ilannah Eliot, Widow,
0 1 61
Jason Dunster,
0
60
Samuel Scripture,
1 0 91
Joseph Merrick,
( 111 0
James Weathee,
0:10 90
Jonathan Winship,
0 19 00
Lemuel Spaulding,
0 840
Samuel Tarbell,
0 6 82
Elizabeth Powers, Widow,
0 6 42
Nathaniel Barrett, Jr.,
0 6 00
Joseph Blood,
0 6 00
John Leornard,
0 6 11 2
Abel Shedd,
0 6 00
Jonathan Fish,
0 6 82
George Woodard,
06
Jabez Kendall,
0
9
Sum Total,
17|10| 7|1|
An important duty of the selectmen in those days was, to take due care that the town should not be made chargable for the support of panpers, whose residence was in other places. Among the earliest official acts of the first board of select- men, was the issuing of warrants to warn such persons to remove from the town, by which process they were prevented from gaining any lawful settlement by residence in the town, so as to make the town liable to support them, in case they should become unable to support themselves. As a sample of the mode in which this provision of a by-gone age was carried out, a copy of the first such warrant issued by the se- lectmen, and of the return of the officer thereon, is inserted :
WARRANT.
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. To Mr. John Swallow, con- stable in Mason, in said Province : Whereas, a person named Dorothy Stevens hath, for some time, resided in the town of Mason, in said Province, and [is] likely to become a lawful inhabitant in said town, unless lawfully prevented, these are, therefore, in his majestie's name, to will and require you, the said constable, forthwith to warn the said person to depart out of said town, within fourteen days, and to remain in said town no longer. Hereof fail not, as you will answer your default in the penalty of the law, and make due return of this warrant and of your doings therein, within fourteen days.
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Given under our hands and scals, at Mason, the 17th day of January, A. D. 1769, and in the ninth year of his majestie's reign.
OBADIAH PARKER, JOSEPH BULLARD, Selectmen. JOSIAH WHEELER, RETURN.
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. Mason, January 20, 1769. By virtue of this warrant, I have warned the within named Dorothy Stevens, to depart out of said town, within fourteen days, and to remain in said town no longer.
JOHN SWALLOW, Constable in Mason.
Similar warrants and returns are recorded for warning out Mary Jefts and her b. child, January 26, 1769; Elizabeth Parker, February 25, 1769 ; Samuel Bennett and Sarah Wor- rer, July 24, 1769 ; Jonathan Cafford, July 27, 1769; Jonas Perry, February 27, 1770. After which, nothing is recorded but the names of the parties and dates of the warrants.
At the meeting, March 13, 1769, "Voted, To allow Amos Dakin and Aaron Wheeler's accompt for building a bridge over the river by said Dakin's mills, which sum is £8 Os. 9d. 3q. starling money of Great Britain."
March 21, 1769. Treasurer is ordered to pay Josiah Wheeler £0 11s. 9d. Oq. for town books; Obadiah Parker £9 4s. 11d. Oq. and interest, for the charges of incorpora- tion; John Swallow £0 3s. 3d. for warning several persons out of town; Obadiah Parker £0 14s. 4d. for boarding Mr Coggin ; Obadiah Parker £3 12s. Od. 0q. "for to pay Mr. Jacob Coggin for four days pritching."
The proprietors having voted to give the meeting house to the town, at their meeting held March 22, 1769, there was an article in the warrant for the town meeting to be held May 9, 1769, "To see if the town will except the meeting house, provided those men that own pews take them for their seats; also, to determine whether the town will do anything towards finishing said house, and how far they will go in finishing it." At the meeting held May 9, "Voted, That the town excepted
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