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Every order, refolution, or vore, to which the concurrence of the Senare and Houfe of Reprofentatives may be neceffary (except on a question of adjournment ) shall be profented to the Prefident of the Uni- ted States : and before the fame fhall take effect, fhall be approve ! by him, or, being difapproved by him, fhall be re-paffed by two thirds of the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives, according to the rules and limitations preferibed in the cafe of a bill.
Sect. 8. The Congrefs fhall have power,
To lay and collect taxes, duties, impotts and excifes, to pay the deits, and provide for the common defence and the general welfare of the United States; but all duties, impofts and excites fhall be unifornt throughout the United States.
To borrow money on the credit of the United States ;
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To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the evera ftates, and with the Indian tribes ;
To eftabliff an uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws, on the fubject of bankruptcies throughout the United States ;
To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the ftandard of weights and measures ;
To provide for the punifhment of counterfeiting the fecurities and current coin of the United States ;
To eftablifh port offices and poft roads ;
To promote the progrefs of fcience and ufeful arts, by fecuring for limited times to authors and inventors, the exclufive right to their ref- pective writings and difcoveries ;
To conftitute tribunals inferior to the fupreme courts ;
To define and punith piracies and felonies committed on the high feas, and offences againit the law of nations ;
To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprifal, and make rules ' concerning captures on landand water ;
To raife and fupport armies, but no appropriation of money to that ufe, fhall be for a longer term than two years ;
To provide and maintain a navy ;
To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces ;
To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, fupprefs infurrections and repel invafions :
To provide for organizing, arming, and difciplining the militia, and for governing fuch part of them as may be employed in the fervice of the United States, referving to the fates refpectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the difcipline prefcribed by Congref's ;
To exercife exclufive legiflation in all cafes whatfoever, over fuch diffiict (not exceeding ten miles fquare) as may, by ceffion of particu- lar flates, and the acceptance of Congrel's, become the feat of the government of the United States, and to exercife like authority over the places purchafed by the confent of the legiflature of the ftate, in which the fame fall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arfenals, dock-vards, and other needful buildings ; And
To make all laws which fliall be neceffary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vefted by this conftitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officers thereof.
Seit. 9. The migration or importation of fuch perfons as any of the ftates now exifting fhall think proper to admit, fhall not be prohibited by the Congrefs prior to the year One Thoufand Eight Hundred and Eight, but a tax or duty may be impofed on fuch importation, not ex- ceeding ten dollars for each perfon.
The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus fhall not be fufpended, unlef's when in caufes rebellion or invafion, the public fafety may re- quire it.
No bill of attainder or ex poft facto law fhall be paffed.
No capitation, or other direct tax, fhall be laid, nnlefs in proportion to the cenfus or enumeration herein before directed to be taken.
No tax or duty fhall be laid on articles exported from any ftate. No preference fhall be given by any regulation of commerce or revenue to
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the. ports of one flate over thofe of another ; nor fhall veffels bound to; or from, one ftate, be obliged to enter, clear, or pay duties in another.
No money fhall be drawn from the treafury, but in confequence of appropriations made by law ; and a regular flatement and account of the receipts and expenditures of all public money fhall be published from time to time.
No title of nobility fhall be granted by the United States :- And no perfon holding any office of profit or truft under them, fhall, without the confent of Congrefs, accept of any prefent, emolument, office, or title, ofany kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign itate.
Sect. 10. No flate fhall enter into any treaty, alliance, or confedera- tion ; grant letters of marque and reprifal ; coin money, emit bills of. credit ; make any thing but gold and filver coin a tender in payment of debts ; pafs any bill of attainder, ex poft facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts, or grant any title of nobility.
No ftate fhall, without the content of Congrefs, lay any impofts or duties on exports or imports, except what may be abfolutely neceffary for executing its infpection laws ; and ibe het produce of all doties and impofts, laid by any flate on imports or exports, fhall be for the ufe of the treafury of the United States ; and all fuch laws fhall be fubjest to the revifion and controul of the Congrefs.
Noftate fhall, without the content of Congrefs, lay any duty of ton- nage, keep troops, or fhips of war in the time of peace, enter into any agreement or compact with another flate, or with a foreign power, or engage in war, unlefs actually invaded, or fuch imminent danger as will not admit of delay:
ARTICLE II.
Sell. 1. The Executive Power fhall be vefted in a Prefident of the United States of America, He shall hold his office during the term of four years, and, together with the Vice Prefident, chofen for the fame term, to be elected as follows :
Each ftate fhall appoint, in fuch manner as the legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors, equal to the whole number of fenators and reprefentatives to which the flute may be entitled in the Congrefs ; but no fenator or reprefentative or perfon holding an office of truft or profit under the United States, fliall be appointed an elector.
The electors fhall meet in their respective ilates, and vote by ballot fortwo perfons, of whom one at leaft fhall not be an inhabitant of the fame flate with themfelves. And they fhall make a l'ft of all the per- fons voted for, and of the number of votes for each ; which lift they fall fign and certify, and tranfinit fealed to the fcat of the government of the United States, directed to rhe Prefideat of the Senate. The Prefident of the Senate fhall, in the prefence of the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives, open all the certificates, and the votes fhall then be counted. The perfon having the greateft number of votes fhall be the Prefident, if fuch number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed ; and if there be more than one who have fuch majority, and have an equal number of votes, then the Houfe of Reprefentatives fhall immediately choofe by ballot one of them for Prefident ; and if no per- fon has a majority, then from the five higheft on the lift the faid houfe fhall, in like manner, choofe the Prefideut. But in choofing the Prefi- dent the vores fhall be taken by flates ; the representation from each fate having one vote ; a quorum for this purpofe thall confift of a mem-
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ber or members from two thirds of the ftates, and a majority of all the Atates fhall be neceffarv to a choice. In every cafe, after the choice of a Prefident, the perfon having the greateft number of the votes of the ele. - tors fhall be the Vice President. But if there fhould remain twoer more who have equal votes, the fenate fhall choofe from them by ballot the Vice Prefident.
The Congrefs may determine the time of choofing the electors, and the day on which they fall give their votes ; which day fhall be the fame throughout the United States.
No perfon, except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this conftitution ; fhall be eligible to the office of Prefideut ; neither fall any perfon be eligible to that of- fice who fhall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen vears a refident within the United States.
In cafe of the removal of the Prefident from office, or his death, re- fignation, or inability to difcharge the powers and duties of the faid of- fice, the fame fhall devolve on the Vice- Prefident, and the Congrefs may by law provide for the cafe of removal, death, refignation, or inability, both of the Prefident and Vice-Prefi lent, declaring what officer fhall then act as Prefident, and fuch officer fhall act accordingly, until the difability be removed, or a Prefident shall be elected ..
The Prefident thall, at ffated times, receive for his fervices, a com- peníation, which thall neither be increafed nor diminifhed during the period for which he fhall have been elected, and he fhall not receive within that period any other emolument from the United States, or any of them.
Before he enters on the execution of his office, he fhall take the fol- lowing oath or affirmation:
" I do folemnly fwear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of Prefident of the United States, and will, to the beft of my abi- lity, preferve, protect, and defend the Conftitntion of the United States."
Sect. 2. The Prefident fhall be Commander in Chief of the army and navy of the United States, and of the militia of the feveral flates, when called into the actual fervice of the United States; he may require the opinion, in writing, of the principal officer in each of the executive de- partments, upon any fubject relating to the duties of their refpective of- fices, and he fhall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for of- fences againft the United States, except in cafes of impeachment.
He fhall have power, by and with the advice and confent of the Se- nate, to make treaties, provided two-thirds of the fenators prefent con cur; and he fhall nominate, and by and with the advice and confent of the fenate, fhall appoint ambaffadors, other public minifters, and confuls, judges of the fupreme court, and all other officers of the United States, whofe appointments are not herein otherwife provided for, and which fhall be ettablifhed by law. But the Congrefs may by law veft the ap- pointments of fuch inferior officers, as they think proper, in the Prefi- dent alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments.
The Prefident fhall have power to fill up all vacancies that may hap- pen during the recefs of the fenate, by granting commiffions which fhall expire at the end of their next feffion.
Sect. 3. He fhall from time to time give to the Congrefs information of the state of the union, and recommend to their confideration fuch meafures as he fhall judge neceffary and expedient ; he may, on extra-
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ordinary occafions, convene both houfes, or either of them, and in cafe of difagreement between them, with refpect to the time of adjourument, he may a journ them to fuch time as he may think proper; he fhall re- ceive ambasadors and other public miniflers ; he fhall take care that the laws be faithfully executed, and thall commiffion all the officers of the United States.
Sell. 4. The Prefident, Vice-Prefident, and all civil officers of the United States, fhall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treafon, bribery, or other high crimes and mifdemeanors.
ART. III.
Sed. I. The judicial power of the United States Shall be vefted in one fupreme court, and ininch inferior courts as the Congref's may from time to time ordain and eftablith. The judges both of the fupreme and the inferior courts, thall hold their offices during good behaviour, and fhall, at itated times, receive for their fervices, a compenfation, which fhall not be diminithed during their continuance in office.
Sett. 2. The jud.cial power fhall extend to all cafes, in law and equi- ty, anding under this conftitution, the laws of the United States, and treaties made, or which fhall be made, under their authority; to all cafes affecting ambaffadors, other public minifters, and confuls; to all cafes of ad.niralty and maritime jurifdiction; to controverfies to which the United States fhall be a party; to controverfies between two or more flates, between a flate and citizens of another ftate, between citi- zens of different ftates, between citizens of the fame State claiming lands under grants of different ftates, and Vetween a flate and the citizens thereof, and foreign ftates, citizens or fubjects.
In all cafes affecting ambaffadors, other public minifters and confuls, and thofe in which a itate fhall be a party, the fupreme court thall have original jurifdiction. In all other cafes before-mentioned, the fupreme court fhall have appellate juridiction both as law and fact, with fuch ex- ceptions, and under fuch regulations, as the Congrefs fhall make.
The trial of all crimes, except in cafes of impeachment, fhall be by jury ; and fuch trial fhall be held in the ftate where the faid crimes fhall have been committed; but when not committed within any ftate, the trial fhall be at fuch place or places as the Congrefs may by law have di- rected.
Seit. 3. Treafon againft the United States fhall confift only in levying war againft them, or adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No perfon thail be convicted of treafon, unlefs on the tefti- mony of two witneffes to the fame overt act, or on confeffion in open court.
The Congrefs fhall have power to declare the puniffiment of treafon, but no attainder of treafon fhall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture, except during the life of the perfon attained.
ART. IV.
Seft. 1. Full faith and credit fhall be given in each frate to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other flate. And the Congrefs may by general laws prefcribe the manner in which fuch acts, records, and proceedings may be proved, and the effect thereof.
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Sc3. 2. The citizens of each ftate fhall be entitled to all privileges and unmunities of citizens in the feveral ftates.
A perfon charged in any flate with treafon, felony, or other crime, who ihall flee from juftice, and be found in another itate, thall, on de- mand of the executive authority of the flate from which he fled, be de- livered up, to be removed to the ftare having jurifdiStion of the crime.
No perfon held to fervice or labour in one ftate, under the laws thereof, efcaping into another, fhall, in confequence of any law or regulation therein. be difcharged from fuch fervice or labour, but fhall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom fuch fervice or labour may be due.
Sed. 3. New ftates may be admitted by the Congrefs into this Union ; but no new ftate fhall be formed or erected within the juridiction of any other flate ; nor any flate be formed by the junction of two or more ftates, or parts of ftates, without the content of the legiflatures of the flates concerned, as well as of the Congrefs.
The Congrei's fhall have power to difpofe of, and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belong- ing to the United States ; and nothing in this Conftitution fhall be fo conftrued as to prejudice any claims of the United States, or of any par- ticular flate.
Sett. 4. The United States thall guarantee to every flate in this Union, a republican form of government, and fhall protect each of them againft invafion ; and on application of the legiffature, or of the execu- tive (when the legiflature cannot be convened) againft domeffic vio- lence.
A R T. V.
The Congrefs, whenever two thirds of both houfes fhall deem it ne- ceffary, fhall propofe amendments to this Conftitution, or on the appli- cation of the legiffatures of two thirds of the feveral ftates, fhall call a convention for propofing amendments, which, in either cafe, fhall be valid to all intents and purpofes, as part of this Conftitution, when ra- tified by the legifatures of three fourths of the feveral flates, or by conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ra - rification may be propofed by the Congrefs ; Provided, that no an end- ments which may be made prior to the year One Thoufand Eight Hun- dred and Eight, fhall in any manner affect the fi:ft and fourth claufes in the gth fection of the firft article ; and that no ftate, without its con- fent, fhall be deprived of its equal fuffrage in the Senate.
ART. VI.
All debts contracted and engagements entered into, before the adop- tion of this Conftitution, fhall be as valid againft the United States un- der this Conftitution, as under the confederation.
This Conftitution, and the laws of the United States which fhall be made in purfuance thereof ; and all treaties made, or which fhall be made, under the authority of the United States, fhall be the fupreme law of the land ; and judges in every ftate fhall be bound thereby, any thing in the Conflitution or laws of any flate to the contrary notwith- flanding.
The fenators and reprefentatives before-mentioned, and the members of the feveral ftate legiflatures, and all the executive and judicial offi- cers, both of the United States and of the feveral ftates, fhall be bound by oath or affirmation, to fupport this Conftitution : but no religious
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teft fhall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public truft under the United States.
ART. VII.
The ratification of the convention of nine ftates, fhall be fufficient for the eftablifhment of this Conftitution between the fates fo ratifying the fame.
DONE in CONTENTION, by the cinanimous confent of the fates prefert, the ferventzenth day of September, in the year of our Lord, Cre Thou- fand Seven Hundred and Eighty Seren, and of the Independence of the United States of America the Twelfth.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, PRESIDENT.
The above Conflitution was adopted by
Delaware State,
December 6, 1787.
Pennfylvania,
December 12.
New- Jerfey,
December 18.
Georgia,
January 2, 1788.
Connecticut,
January.
Nafachufetts,
February 7.
Maryland,
April 28.
South Carolina,
May 23.
New-Hampshire,
June 21.
Virginia,
June 25.
New-York,
July 26,
G
GOVERNMENT
OF THE
UNITED STATES.
SUPREME EXECUTIVE.
J JOHN ADAMS, Prefident of the United States, and Commander in Chief of all their Forces by Land and Sea, elected for four years, on the day of Salary, 25,000 dollars per annum.
THOMAS JEFFERSON, Vice-Prefident, and Prefident of the Se- nate. Salary, 5000 dollars per annumi.
SENATORS OF THE UNITED STATES.
New- Hampshire. John Langdon, 53, North Fourth Street. Samuel Livermore, 9, North Sixth ftreet.
Maffachufetts. Benjamin Goodhuc, 28, South Second ftreet. Theodore Sedgwick,
Rhode - Ifland.
Mr. Green, 18, Chefnut ftreet.
Theodore Fofter, Francis' Hotel. Connecticut.
James Hillhoufe,
Uriah Tracey, 128, North Second ftreet.
Vermont.
Elijah Paine, 141, South Second ftreet. Mr. Chipman, 39, North Sixth freet. New-York.
Philip Schuyler, John Laurence, 155, Chefnut ftrect. New-Ferfey.
John Rutherford, Richard Stockton, 39, North Sixth ftreet.
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Pennfylvania. William Bingham, South Third, near Spruce ftreet. James Rofs, corner of Pine and Second ftreets.
Delaware.
John Vining,
Henry Latimer, 39, North Sixth Street.
Maryland.
James Lloyd, John E. Howard,
Virginia.
Stevens T. Mafon,
Henry Tazewell, at Mr. Beckley's, South Eighth ftreet.
Kentucky.
John Brown, 11, North Sixth Street.
Humphrey Marshall,
Tennefee.
Jofeph Anderfon, 100, North Third Street. Mr. Jackfon, 100, North Third ftreet. andrew Jackson
North-Carolina.
Alexander Martin, 100, North Third ftreet.
Timothy Bloodworth, N. W. corner of Ninth and Filbert ftreets.
South-Carolina.
Jacob Read, corner of Eleventh and Chefhut ftreets.
John Hunter,
Georgia.
James Gunn, 87, Vine ftreet. Jofiah Tattnal!,
· Secretary-Samuel A. Otis, 323, Market ftreet.
Chaplain-Right Rev. William White.
Doorkeeper-James Mathers, 23, North Tenth ftreet.
Affijlant - Doorkeeper-C. Maxwell, Arch, near Tenth ftreet.
THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Jonathan Dayton, Speaker.
New-Hampshire.
Abiel Fofter, 113, North Fifth Street. Jonathan Freeman, 113, North Fifth ftreet. William Gordon, 18, Chefnut ftreet. P'eleg Sprague,
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Mafachufetts.
Bailey Bartlett, 128, North Second ftreet. Stephen Bullock, 30, Walnut ftrect. Dwight Folter, 28, South Second ftrect. Nathaniel Freeman, junior,
Samuel Lyman, 113, North Fifth ftreet. Ilarrifon G. Otis, 323, Highi ftreet. Ifaac Parker, 128, North Second ftreet. John Reed, 30, Walnut-freet.
Samuel Sewall, 128, North Second ftreet. William Shepard, 77, North Third ftrect, Thompfon J. Skinner, George Thatcher, 77, North Third Street.
Jofeph B. Varnum, Francis' Hotel.
Peleg Wadfworth, 77, North Third ftreet.
Rhode -Ifland.
Christopher G. Champlin, 18, Chefnut ftreet. Thomas Tillinghaft, 113, North Fifth ftreet. Connecticut.
John Allen, 86, Crown ftreet. Tothua Coit, 128, North Second ftreet.
Samuel W. Dana, 128, North Second Street.
William Edmond, 128, North Second ftreet. Chauncey Goodrich, N. W. corner of Fourth and Spruce ftreets. Roger Grifwold, 128, North Second ftreet.
Nathaniel Smith, 86, Crown ftreet.
Vermont.
Matthew Lyon, 205, Arch ftreet. Lewis R. Morris, 39, North Sixth ftreet. New-York.
David Brooks,
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James Cochran, 39, North Sixth ftrcet.
Lucas Elmendorph, 53, North Fourth ftreet. Henry Glen, 28, South Second ftreet. Jonathan N. Havens, 53, North Fourthi ftreet. Hezekiah L. Hofmer, 39, North Sixth ftreet. Edward Livingfton, Oellers' Hotel. John E. Van Alen, 200, Arch itreet. Philip Van Cortlandt, Francis' Hotel. John Williams, 200, Arch ftreet.
New-Ferfey.
Jonathan Dayton, (Speaker) 141, South Second ftreet. James H. Imlay, N. W. corner of Pine and Second ffreet. fames Schureman, 11, North Sixth ftreet. Thomas Sinnickfon, N. W. corner of Pine and Second Street. Mark Thomfon, N. W. corner of Pine and Second ftreets.
Pennfylvania. David Bard, 77, North Third Street. John Chap.nan, 9, North Second ftreet. William Findley, 67, Vine ftreet.
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"Albert Gallatin, 53, North Fourth freet. Andrew Gregg,
John A. Hannah, 105, North Front ftreet. Thomas Hartley, 132, Arch ftreet. Jofeph Heifter,
John Wilkes Kittera,
Blair M'Clenachan, 96, South Fourth freet. Samuel Sitgreaves, 104, Spruce îtreet. John Swanwick, Sixth, near Spruce Itreet. Richard Thomas, 32, Arch ftreet.
Delaware.
James A. Bayard, 39, North Sixth Street.
Maryland.
George Baer, junior, 244, North Eighth ftrect.
William Craik, 9, North Eighth Itreet. John Dennis, 127, South Third ftreet. George Dent, 24, North Eighth ftreet. William Hindman, 104, Spruce ftreet. William Matthews, 96, South Third treet.
Richard Sprigg, 24, North Eighth street. Samuel Smith,
Virginia.
Richard Brent, O'Ellers' Hotel. Samuel J. Cabell,
Thomas Claiborne, 108, North Fourth ftreet.
Matthew Clay, O'Ellers' Hotel. John Clopton, 100, North Child ftreet.
John Dawfon, 7, South Fourth freet.
Thomas Evans, 127, South Third frrcet.
William B. Giles,
Carter B. Harrifon, at Mr. Knap's, Spruce, near Sixthi ftreet. David Holmes, 170, High street.
Walter Jones, N. W. corner of Powel and Fifth ftreets.
James Machir, 170, High fireet.
Daniel Morgan, Conoftogo Waggon, High ftrect. Anthony New, 100, North Third freet.
John Nicholas, 52, North Fourth fireet.
Jofiah Parker,
Abram Trigg, 100, North Third ftreet.
John Frigg, 100, North Third itreet. Abraham B. Venable, a: Mr. Knap's, Spruce, near Sixth fireet.
Kentucky.
Thomas T. Davis, at Mr. Beckley's, South Eighth Street. John Fowler,
North-Carolina.
Thomas Blount, at Mr. Beckley's, South Eighth treet. Nathan Bryan, Demfey Burges, James Gillefpie, William Barry Grove, 127, South Third ftreet. Matthew Locke, 205, Arch itreet.
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Nathaniel Macon, 108, North Fourth Street. Joseph M'Dowell,
Richard Stanford, 205, Arch ftreet.
Robert Williams, 108, North Fourth ftreet.
Tennefec.
William Charles Cole Claiborne, 100, North Third ftreet. South-Carolina.
Lemuel Benton,
Robert Goodloe Harper, 127, South Third ftreet.
Thomas Pinckney, N. W. corner of Vine and Third ftreets.
John Rutledge, junior, N. W. corner of Vine and Third ftreets. William Smith, 24, North Eighth ftreet.
Thomas Sumpter.
Georgia.
Abraham Baldwin, Francis' Hotel. John Milledge,
Clerk-Jonathan W. Condy, 189, Race ftreet.
Chaplain-Rev. Afhbel Green.
Serjeant-at-Arms-Jofeph Wheaton.
Doorkeeper-Thomas Claxton, 359, North Second ftreet.
Afiftant Doorkeeper-Thomas Dunn, Filbert, between eleventh and Twelfth ftreets.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE.
Office kept in Fifth between Market and Chefnut-ftreets. Timothy Pickering Secretary of State, and commiffioner, ex officio for granting patents. Salary 3,500 dolls. per ann.
George Taylor, jun. chief clerk, and clerk ex oficio, for granting patents.
Minifers Commisioners, Confuls doc. of the United States, to Foreign Powers. To the Kingdom of Great Britain, and its Dominions. Rufus Kiug, Minifter Plenipotentiary.
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