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ourselves. 
News of the Week. 
Commencing near home, we note the impor¬ 
tant fact that the Weather is at last genial and 
Spring-like—that on Sunday (6th) there was a 
general breaking up of ice in the Genesee, when 
the congealed element passed over the falls in 
vast quantities. To-day (Tuesday) the sun 
shines brightly, and all humanity is apparently 
rejoicing—for now, of a verity, is “the Winter 
of our discontent made glorious Summer,” in 
prospect at least, and next cometh the promised 
“ seed time and harvest” to rejoice the heart of 
the husbandman. 
Our City Government was organized on 
Monday. The Officers elected by the people, 
and appointed by their representatives, are as 
follows: 
Mayor—Samuel G. Andrews. Treasurer— 
Pliny M. Bromley. City Attorney—Ebenezer 
Griffin. City Clerk—Charles N. Simmons.— 
Street Superintendent—Robert Harris. Over¬ 
seer of the Poor—John H. Babcock. Surveyor 
—Daniel Marsh. Comptroller—John B. Rob¬ 
ertson. Health Officer—Thos. Bradley. Phy¬ 
sicians—Drs. John Reid, Chas. Yail, and Ger¬ 
ardus Arink. Sealer—Francis Tully. Justices 
—P. M. Crandall, Daniel Wood, W. C. Storrs. 
On Monday evening the Board of Education 
organized by electing Edwin T. Huntington as 
its President, and Isaac S. Hobbie Superinten¬ 
dent of Schools. 
We have no domestic news of interest, and 
in the absence of calamities by fire, flood, (fee., 
we are bound to report the country “ prosperous 
and happy”—albeit the surface is becoming ag¬ 
itated with the ripples of the approaching Pres¬ 
idential Campaign. While the politicians are 
preparing to “save the country” in their pecu¬ 
liar manner, the people generally will accom¬ 
plish much more by carefully attending to then- 
individual interests, and —planting corn. 
The Foreign News, given elsewhere, is im¬ 
portant. The most prominent item is the result 
of the Peace Conference—placing the great 
powers of Europe at peace with each other, if 
not with “ all the world and the rest of man¬ 
kind.” Every Christian and philanthropist will 
rejoice at this long desired consummation. The 
birth of a son unto the Emperor and Empress 
of France—of a full blown, if not grown, Ki.ig 
of Algiers—is another interesting item in the 
budget, and has naturally caused a great com¬ 
motion throughout France, and Europe general¬ 
ly. The minute details given in the French 
and English journals (and copied into some 
American papers,) are as absurd and ridiculous 
generally, as some of them are Munchausenish 
particularly. Nous verrons. 
— For ^sundry lesser happenings and trans- 
pirings among the habitants of this mundane 
sphere, see column of condensed news, and 
elsewhere. 
Much of the time of the Senate during last 
week was occupied discussing the Kansas State 
question, the Bulwer Clayton treaty, and the 
action of the Naval Retiring Board ; but noth¬ 
ing definite was arrived at in either case. 
Mr. Seward reported the House resolution for 
the enlargement of the Custom House, Post 
Office, and Federal Court building at Buffalo. 
Mr. Mason, from the committee on foreign re¬ 
lations, reported a joint resolution to permit Dr. 
Kane, and the officers associated with him in 
the expedition in the Arctic seas, to accept such 
tokens of acknowledgment as the Government 
of Great Britain may choose to present in ac¬ 
cordance with its wishes on the subject; also a 
joint resolution, amending the act of March, 
1855, to remodel the diplomatic and consular 
system of the United States. 
House— The general appropriation bill was 
made the special order on .and after the 15th of 
April, excepting Mondays, Fridays and Satur¬ 
days. 
The bill appropriating $300,000 for restoring 
and maintaining the peaceable disposition of 
the Indian tribes on the Pacific coast, and 
$120,000 for the purchase of gunpowder, was 
passed. 
Among the reports from the standing com¬ 
mittee were bills establishing additional land 
districts in Kansas and Nebraska. 
Ten thousand copies of the Central American 
correspondence, together with the correspond¬ 
ence between the United States and Great Brit¬ 
ain on the arbitration and enlistment question, 
were ordered printed, as also the same number 
of copies of the document on the commercial 
relations of the United States with all foreign 
nations—statistics, comparative tariffs, (fee. 
Mr. Haven introduced a bill for the enlarge¬ 
ment of the Custom House, Post Office and 
Court House buildings at Buffalo. Passed. 
On motion of Mr. Phelps, the military com¬ 
mittee were instructed to inquire into the expe¬ 
diency of accepting the services of volunteers 
to aid in suppressing Indian hostilities on the 
Pacific coast. 
Agricultural College. —The Seneca Obser¬ 
ver says :—“ It gives us much pleasure to learn 
that the bill loaning the sum of $40,000 from 
the U. S. Deposit Fund to the Trustees of the 
Agricultural College, has passed both branches 
of the Legislature, and will become a law. We 
do not understand perfectly the nature of the 
loan, but we believe it is loaned without inter¬ 
est, and will be paid when an equal sum has 
been raised by subscription. This amount has 
been secured, or very nearly that amount, 
through the efforts of the citizens of Ovid, and 
the Agricultural College will unquestionably 
be located there. Unless the fact that Ovid is 
not as convenient of access as some other local¬ 
ities is an objection, there is hardly a spot in 
the State combining so many advantages.” 
Arrest of a Mail Robber. —An Irish watch¬ 
man in the railroad station at Michigan City, 
named McDonald, has been arrested and taken 
to Indianapolis for robbing the mail. When 
trains failed to connect, and the mails had con¬ 
sequently to lay over, he would steal the bags, 
several of which, before the robber was detect¬ 
ed, -were thus purloined. On searching his 
house the officers found a mail bag full of open¬ 
ed letters, envelopes, (fee ; also a trunk in which 
the “plunder” was concealed, and opening i.t, 
they discovered $800 or $900 in cash, and near 
$4,000 in drafts. 
The St. Laavrence University, at Canton, St. 
Lawrence County, has been incorporated by the 
Legislature. This institution is to be among 
the liberal class of colleges, and supply a desi¬ 
deratum long existing in the northern part of 
the State. Among the trustees are Preston 
King, John L. Russell, Jacob Harsen, Martin 
Thatcher, Francis Seger, F. C. Hayemeyer, Ca¬ 
leb Barstow and A. C. Moore. There will be 
in connection with the College a Theological 
School under the patronage of the Universalist 
denomination. 
Late Counterfeits. —Among these are the 
following :—l’s on the Belvidere Bank—photo¬ 
graph—viz., female, sheaves of grain, train of 
cars, (fee., goddess of liberty on the right end. 
10’s on the Farmers’ and Merchants’ Bank, 
Middletown Point, altered from l’s, vignette 
boys catching a horse. 5’s on the Morris Co. 
Bank, Morristown, altered from l’s — vignette, 
two horses before a plow, house in distance— 
female on the right end, cattle scene on left 
lower corner. 
The Hudson River Railroad, more fortunate 
than the roads which have been badly block¬ 
aded, has been doing a large business during 
the past two months. The receipts for the 
month of March were $229,323.97, against 
$178,550.22, same month last year. The Feb¬ 
ruary business was $190,184, against $174,904 
same month last year. 
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Close Financiering. —On opening the bids 
for the recent canal loan of $1,000,000, John 
Thompson of Nexv York bid for the whole or 
none, at $117.05. On comparing bis with the 
highest aggregate bids for the million, it was 
found he had fallen beloiv them only two cents 
on the hundred dollars, and therefore took nothing! 
The mail for California from Utah in Janua¬ 
ry last, was carried over the Sierra Nevada 
Mountains by a Norwegian, who footed it on 
snow-shoes seven feet long and four inches Avide, 
in the form of skates, and shoved himself along 
with a pole. 
In the Senate last xveek, bills were passed to 
incorporate Metropolitan Medical College ; au¬ 
thorizing the construction of a bridge over the 
Hudson at Albany ; to amend the act relative to 
special proceedings. 
In committee of the whole, the enacting 
clause was stricken out of the bill relating to 
interest and money. 
Assembly. —In this branch of the Legislature 
a bill was passed to provide for the distribution 
of the standard works of American authors in 
district schools. 
The most important bills ordered to a th rd 
reading were—A bill to provide for the exten¬ 
sion of the Genesee Valley canal; for relief of 
Geo. B. Woodbridge, Sergeant-at-Arms of the 
Assembly ; to'change the mode of distribution 
of the school funds ; to enable Peter Cooper to 
found a Scientific Institution in New York; the 
appropriation bill; New York Quarantine bill; 
to suppress intemperance, and repeal of prohib¬ 
itory law ; to authorize the formation of th'e 
town Insurance Companies; to authorize the 
Comptroller to procure transcript of certain acts 
of the Colonial Government from London. 
The Temperance bill Avas made the special 
order for Monday at 12 o’clock. 
Provincial Items. 
The Nova Scotia Legislature has passed the 
Maine Liquor Law, by 27 to 20, to go into effect 
immediately. 
Troops for the Colony. —The Hamilton (C. 
W.) Banner says :—Orders have been received 
at the Portsmouth Dockyard for the authorities 
to expedite with all dispatch the refitment of 
three steamers, the Vulcan, Perseverance and 
Regent, to embark troops for colonial service.— 
The General Screw Steamship Co. have also 
received orders to prepare four of their large 
ships for the reception of horses and troops.— 
The ships named are the Arago, Calcutta, Queen 
of the South and Hydaspes, all of which would 
be ready for their freight by the 3d of this 
month. Accommodation for the conveyance of 
6,000 horses to Canada, is said to have been 
ordered to be got ready by the opening of nav¬ 
igation. 
The Montreal Advertiser says that some idea 
of the snow in that region may be formed from 
the fact, that there are drifts in the neighbor¬ 
hood of the “ Mile End” twenty-three feet high 
on level land, actual measurement. 
In the House of Parliament the following res¬ 
olution was offered :—Resolved, That after the 
31st of January, 1857, there shall be but one 
currency or money of account, of which the dollar 
shall be the highest or principle unit, that the 
public acccounts shall be kept in dollars, cents 
and mills, and that the coinage be equal in in¬ 
trinsic value to that of the United States. 
The Middlesex Ag. Society. —The Spring 
Exhibition of the Society is announced to be 
held on the Agricultural grounds in London, 
(C. W.,) on Tuesday, the 15th inst. A number 
of prizes will be given for the best seed and 
root crops, which is a new feature in the tran¬ 
sactions of the Society.— Free Press. 
The Canadian Government are discussing the 
convenience ami inconvenience of a perambu¬ 
lating government, but they have not as yet 
come to any definite conclusion. It is said that 
the removal from Quebec to Toronto cost 
$292,000. 
The returns of the Great Western (C. W.) 
Railroad, show an aggregate increase in earn¬ 
ings, within a period of six months, of over half 
million dollars. The increase in the number of 
passengers carried on the road during the last 
haif year, over the corresponding half year, ’55, 
is 106,024, and the number of tons of freight 
41,832. 
The fine old ship William Fare, which nearly 
one hundred years ago bore Gen. Wolfe to the 
conquest of Quebec, is now lying in the docks 
at Newport, England, to undergo a few slight 
repairs. 
A. number of the citizens of Hamilton have 
set on foot a scheme for the purpose of procur¬ 
ing and presenting to William Lyon McKenzie 
a suitable testimonial, as an appreciation of his 
services as a public man during the past thirty 
years. The Banner says that the contemplated 
testimonial is to consist of a good homestead, 
which will make the old man and his interest¬ 
ing family comfoi table and independent for life. 
The Utica Observer says a lady died at Lan- 
singburgh from the effects of poison contained 
in some maple sugar of Avhich she had partaken. 
It is supposed the poison was imparted to the 
maple sugar by boiling it in a brass kettle.— 
The poison Avas thrown from her stomach, but 
it engendered an inflammation, of which the 
victim doubtless died. All the other members 
of the family Avho had partaken of the sugar, 
were more or less affected by it. 
Horrible. —The Plaindealer says:—A little 
boy, eight years of age, named Ephraim White- 
head, living in Cleveland, was recently attacked 
and torn in pieces by a bloodhound slut owned 
in the neighborhood. He was found in a field 
about twenty rods from the house nearly dead, 
and was just able to tell the cause of the catas¬ 
trophe. The dog, Avhich was immediately 
killed, was of the breed known by the name of 
Negro dogs. 
Rhode Island Election. —The Coalition, An¬ 
ti-Administration, party have carried Rhode 
Island by nearly a clean sweep. The Gover¬ 
nor, Lieut. Governor, Secretary, Attorney Gen¬ 
eral, and both branches of the Legislature, are 
carried by the allies, to wit: Republicans and 
Americans. The Democrats say it is not a fair 
fight where two parties combine against one. 
A Missive from Prairie Land. 
Winnebago Co., Ill., March 20, ’56. 
Eds. Rural :—Although unacquainted with 
its corps editorial, I am familiar with the Rural 
itself, having welcomed its visits weekly since 
the days of its infancy. It has grown strong 
now, and the secret of that strength lies in the 
hold it has in the affections of its tens of thou¬ 
sands of patrons. Can I do aught to give inte¬ 
rest to its pages by a missive from Prairie Land? 
Though reared in the East, your correspondent 
has been for a few brief years a sojourner in the 
West—and from this point of view his observa¬ 
tions will be taken. Whether possessing any¬ 
thing of interest, it is for you to determine. 
Since Christmas our prait ies have been cloth¬ 
ed with a mantle of snow, but at present are 
disrobed of their fleecy covering. A few iso¬ 
lated banks by the way-side, which, in mid¬ 
winter, were chains of mountains in miniature, 
are alone left, as the last fingerings of winter—a 
winter unparalleled m its severity. But the 
robin, the black and the blue bird, sure harbin¬ 
gers of spring, are among us, and we hope the 
tyrant’s reign is over. Our much admired 
Rock River (which is dancing in the morning 
sunlight, from the Avindow Avhere 1 write,) is 
once more rejoicing in its escape from the bond¬ 
age of the Frost King, and is peacefully flow¬ 
ing on to mingle and be lost in the great 
“ Father of Waters. Prairie fires are now of 
nightly occurrence, and to those Avho have never 
witnessed them, would be a source of much 
gratification and sometimes perhaps of conster¬ 
nation. Long lines of living fire, swayed to 
and fro by the winds, flashing and flickering 
against the dark clouds of a moonless night, is 
a sight at once startling and beautiful. 
We are on the eve of our farming operations, 
and will be very soon scattering the seed broad¬ 
cast over our fall-plowed fields. Some have 
already commenced sowing their spring grain. 
In a business point of view, our country, from the 
severe winter and present depression of prices, 
is suffering something of “ stringency,” but this 
is merely temporary. Having the elements of 
prosperity—a fertile soil and an intelligent and 
industrious population,— the resources of the 
country can never remain very long undevelop¬ 
ed, nor its business inactive. 
Rockford, our county town, as a place of 
business, or as a location for a pleasant resi¬ 
dence, is excelled by but few places in the 
West. The whole river is used for hydraulic 
purposes. Manufacturing is already carried on 
here, somewhat extensively, prominent among 
which are the manufacture of Manny’s Reapers 
and Mowers. This is perhaps the largest es¬ 
tablishment of the kind in the Union. Mr. 
Manny is recently deceased, but the businessis 
still carried on by those formerly associated 
with him. The toAvn has a population of about 
seven thousand. It has ten churches or more, 
and school facilities of a high order, Avhich are 
about being increased by the erection of a suit¬ 
able number of school edifices on a munificent 
scale. To add to its moral and educational ad¬ 
vantages it has also a Female Seminary of a 
high order of merit, patronized to the full ex¬ 
tent of its capacity, which was thought more 
than ample at the time of its construction. To 
add facilities for a more extended usefulness 
and to accommodate the mental wants of those 
seeking its benefits, a large addition has been 
made to the original structure. Iu the vernal 
season, from the observatory of the main edifice, 
a view presents itself surpassingly beautiful.— 
The town beneath you, the cultivated country 
in the distance, the river at your feet, just es¬ 
caped from its task of utility in the whirl of 
ponderous water Avheels, now Avinds its way in 
graceful and pleasing sinuosities till its silver 
ripples are lost in the dim haze of the faraway 
prairies. 
Few points in the West offer better facilities 
for the investment of capital. For farming, this 
region has already a well earned and enduring 
reputation. Many of the early settlers are, 
however, disposing of their farms and migrating 
westward, giving place to those of more ample 
means from the East. Lands have advanced 
rapidly within the last three years, yet they 
are cheap, compared with the farming lands of 
the East, and will continue to advance. We 
welcome our Eastern brethren. among us, and 
can assure them that the boasted beauty and 
fertility of the Rock River country is not fiction 
but veritable fact. o. 
Conflagrations. —On the morning of March 
29th, Galena, Ill., was visited by the most dis¬ 
astrous fire that has ever occurred in that city. 
Thirty-two buildings were consumed, among 
which was the St. Michael’s Catholic church. 
Loss estimated at $300,000. 
The Court House at Boston, Mass., took fire 
April 2d,—upper and western portions burned. 
Loss $10,000. 
In Baltimore, April 6, a large fire occurred. 
A block occupied by heavy mercantile firms 
was destroyed. Loss $200,000, mostly insured. 
A Promising Prophet. —Elder Young, in one 
of bis recent discourses to his Mormon brethren, 
thus fulminated his edict:— “Noav if any of 
you will deny the plurality of Avives and con¬ 
tinue to do so, I promise that you will be 
damned ; and I will go still further and say, 
take this revelation, or any other revelation the 
Lord has given,' and deny it in your feelings, 
and I promise that you Avill be damned.” 
Hon. B. F. Harwood, of Livingston, Clerk of 
the Court of Appeals, died at Albany on Sun¬ 
day week. It devolves upon the Legislature to 
appoint a person to fill the office until the elec¬ 
tion next fall. The appointment will be made 
by joint ballot of the two Houses. 
ftttos Clippitirs. 
— Com. McKeever died at Norfolk April 1st. 
— The wool clip of Michigan last year was 2,948,821 lbs., 
worth $1,035,398.59. 
— Good lands within thirty miles of Houston, Texas, 
can he purchased for one dollar per acre. 
— There are eleven coal mining companies operating in 
and about La Salle, Ill. 
— In the year 1869, lotteries terminate in Maryland, 
their limit being fixed by the Constitution. 
— Trains are running on the AA r ahash Valley Railroad 
from Toledo to Logansport. 
— Late advices from Lower California announce the dis¬ 
covery of new and very rich silver and gold mines. 
— Theodore, one of the Aztec children, died recently at 
Berlin, of fever. 
— Philadelphia pays 40 per cent, of all the taxes raised 
in the State for the support of the commonwealth. 
— The Dubuque Tribune says that five hundred good 
mechanics will be wanted in that city the coming season, 
— The value of cattle in the State of Indiana, as report¬ 
ed by the Auditor of State, is nearly $8,000,000. 
— The five principal ice companies of New York have 
laid in a stock the present winter of 363,000 tuns. 
— The number of letters passed through the London 
post office on the last St. A’alentine’s day was 897,000. 
— The U. S. Supreme Court resumed its session April 
1st. All the Justices were present except Associate Jus¬ 
tices McLean and Capron. 
— Galveston has six thousand population, San Antonio 
seven thousand, Houston six thousand, Brownsville five 
thousand. 
— The Baltimore Board of Health have resolved on a 
thorough purification of the city, as a safeguard against 
the yellow fever. 
— There is now in existence at Havana, three organized 
companies for the introduction of Asiatics for the field la¬ 
bor of that island. 
— The schooner Lempter, from Charleston, bound for 
Providence, was burned at sea on the 25th ult. The crew 
arrived at Boston safe. 
— Sir Henry Ellis has resigned his post as principal li¬ 
brarian to the British Museum, which he has held for more 
than fifty years. 
— Thirty-two dead bodies, victims of the Philadelphia 
Ferry Boat disaster, have been recovered. Eighteen are 
still missing. 
— One dollar notes altered to fives in an ingenious 
manner, on the new Importers’ and Traders’ Bank of New 
York, are said to be in circulation. 
— A fire occurred in Galena April 1st, commencing near 
the Lerota House, and destroying 30 buildings, including 
the Catholic church. Loss unknown. 
— A New York correspondent of a Philadelphia paper 
says that Mr. Phalon, the barber of Broadway, recently 
gave a party which cost $5,000. 
— The aggregate value of prints, printing cloths, sheet¬ 
ings and shirtings, sold and exported from Providence 
during the year 1855, was $24,162,000. 
— Coles Bashford, Governor of AVisconsin, was formerly 
a resident of the village of Lyons, AYayne Co., N. Y., 
where several of his brothers still live. 
— The imports of Superior City, Lake Superior, during 
the year 1855, amounted in value to $206,864.86, of which 
$24,929.42 worth was from Detroit. 
— The Princess Galitzin has been arrested for debt in 
London, her husband, belonging to one of the richest 
families in Russia, having stopped her supplies. 
— A repentant individual has returned to the A-fina In¬ 
surance Company of Hartford $2,750, which he obtained 
from it by means of a fraudulent claim some ten years ago. 
— A couple were married on the 11th ult. at Fort 
AVayne, Indiana, and next morning took their departure 
for Egypt, Syria, Palestine and Greece, on a pleasure tour. 
— A magnificent new hotel is to be built on the same 
block with the Girard Hotel, Philadelphia, and is to be 
under the auspices of the present proprietor of the Girard- 
— The U. S. Treasurer reports the net amount subject to 
draft on the 24th of March, two millions, three hundred 
seventy-two thousand, two hundred and eighty-five dollars. 
— A State election took place in Connecticut on the first 
Monday of April, and in Rhode Island on the Wednesday 
ensuing. There are no other elections earlier than August. 
— The British steamer Argos, recently arrived at Ha¬ 
vana, from Port Royal, with nearly fifty of her crew sick 
with yellow fever. Thisisawarning to our Atlantic cities. 
— An Artesian Well in New Orleans has reached a depth 
of five hundred and fifty feet. The Superintendent thinks 
water will he obtained at the depth of about nine hundred 
feet. 
— AVithin a district of country, some fifty miles square 
west of Tarrant and south of Denton county, Texas, about 
four hundred families have settled within twelve months 
past. 
— The San Antonio Texan says that a lad named Jones, 
living on the Salada, who was bit by a rattlesnake, was 
cured by administering to him, immediately, a quart of 
whisky. 
— A son of Gen. Todleben, the famous engineer of Se¬ 
bastopol, was recently killed at Berlin, in a duel, by a 
Prussian engineer officer. Their quarrel arose from a dis¬ 
pute in relation to the war. 
— The Kansas investigating commission, before leaving 
Washington, made an arrangement with private parties 
for a supply of money, in anticipation that the $10,000 
would be paid. 
— It is proposed in London to build on Trafalgar Square 
one of the largest hotels in the world. A bill to incorpo¬ 
rate a company with a capital of a million sterling, was 
pending in the House. 
— Card etiquette is explained as follows, viz :—A plain 
card denotes a passing call; the lower right hand corner 
turned down, a visit; left hand, condolence ; upper, light, 
business ; left, adieu. 
— The Cunard steamer Curlew, from Halifax to Bermu¬ 
da, ran ashore off the islands on the morning of the 18th 
nit., and sunk in three minutes. The mails were lost, but 
the crew were saved. 
— Three of the rolling mills in the yard of the Messrs. 
Dupont, powder manufacturers on the Brandywine, ex¬ 
ploded on Monday morning, but fortunately no person 
was injured in consequence. 
— Charles A. Schouler, of Boston, in a temporary fit o 
insanity on the night of the 28th ult., jumped from the 
third story window of the Massasoit House, Springfield, 
Mass., and died from the injuries received. 
— By the will of Capt. James A. Terrell, who died in 
Charleston, A r a., recently, eighty or ninety very valuable 
negroes are emancipated, and provision made for their re¬ 
moval to Liberia or some Free State. 
— The creditors of ,Cassius M. Clay have refused to ac. 
cept the assignment he made in their favor, and prefers to 
leave the assets in his hands, and he says he can pay his 
debts and have a handsome estate left. 
_John R. Scott,*the actor, died on the 4th April, at 
Philadelphia—of which city he was a native—in the fifty- 
second year of his age. The cause of his death was apo¬ 
plexy, after an illness of only two hours. 
_Coburn, of Boston Shawmut Avenue notoriety, is 
quite ill in jail of brain fever. Petitions are in circulation 
for the pardon of both Coburn and Dalton, and over six 
thousand respectable names have been procured. 
— An officer of'Detroit held an execution against a citi¬ 
zen, who turned out a quantity of liquor as secuiity. He 
cannot sell [it without making himself amenable to the 
laws, and if he does not sell, he is liable for the debt. 
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