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Appropriations, &c.-Continued.

Object of appropriation.

Amount.

Brought forward

For continuing the inquiry into the causes of the decrease of food-fishes of the coast, of the rivers, and of the lakes of the United States.

For the introduction of shad into the waters of the Pacific States, the Gulf States, and of the
Mississippi Valley, and of salmon, white-fish, and other useful food-fishes, into the waters
of the United States to which they are best adapted, $47,500, to be available from the
passage of this act, to be expended under the direction of the United States Commissioner
of Fish and Fisheries

For preparation of illustrations for the report of the United States Commissioner of Fish and
Fisheries.

For engraving and printing certificates of Centennial stock for the International Exhibition
to be held in the city of Philadelphia in the year 1876..

Provided, That this appropriation shall not be construed as in any manner committing the Government of the United States to any other payment whatever to meet the expenses of said exhibition.

To enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives to pay the fourteen crippled and dis-
abled soldiers now in the employment of the Door-keeper of the House, from April 1,
1875, to December 6, 1875, the sum of $12,549.60; which is hereby appropriated.
To enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives to pay Isaac Strohm for the time
employed in making out the warrants for bringing, by order of the House, persons before
its bar, and other papers requiring the seal of the House of Representatives, $150 per
annum, a sum sufficient for the purpose is hereby appropriated, and added to the contin-
gent fund of the House of Representatives..

To enable the Clerk of the House to have prepared for the Public Printer copies of all the
"Summary Reports" of the Commissioners of Claims in cases reported to Congress as dis.
allowed under the act of March 3, 1871, of which twenty-five copies shall be printed and
bound for the use of the Senate and twenty-five copies for the use of the House..
To enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives to cause to be erected in the Congres
sional Cemetery monuments in memory of those Representatives who have died since the
erection of those last authorized, said monuments to be of marble or granite, and of uni-
form size and style with those previously erected, and to be contracted for by him with the
lowest responsible bidder therefor, after due public notice, $1,500, or so much thereof as
may be necessary..

For the purchase of a noiseless steam-pump for the heating and ventilating department of the
House of Representatives, $1,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
For temporary clerks of the Treasury Department, $40,000; and for temporary clerks in the
office of the Treasurer of the United States, $20,000.

For salaries and traveling-expenses of agents at seal-fisheries in Alaska: one agent, at $3,650
per annum; one assistant agent, at $2,920 per annum; two assistant agents, at $2,190 each
per annum; and for necessary traveling-expenses of agents in going to and returning from
Alaska, at $600 each per annum; in all, $13,350. And hereafter no payment whatever
shall be made for this purpose from indefinite appropriations..
For expenses in detecting and bringing to trial and punishment persons engaged in counter-
feiting Treasury notes, bonds, national-bank notes, and other securities of the United
States, and the coinage thereof, and for detecting other frauds upon the Government,
$125,000, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury..
For compensation in lieu of moieties in certain cases under customs revenue laws.

To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to adjust the account of the expenditure for "dies, paper, and stamps for the Internal Revenue Department," for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875, a transfer on the books of the Treasury of such sum as may be necessary is hereby authorized: Provided, That the same shall not involve any actual expenditure of money from the Treasury.

To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to collect, procure, preserve, and arrange for use all vouchers, papers, records, and evidence, and to take and examine testimony as to claims against the United States, to be paid only upon the certificate of the Commissioners of Claims, the unexpended balance of the sum of $20,000 of the re-appropriation made by act of June 23, 1874, is hereby continued and rendered available for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1876.

To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to have the rebel archives and records of captured
property examined, and information furnished therefrom for the use of the Government...
To enable the Secretary of the Navy to pay the first installment due under contract made
by him, in accordance with the joint resolution approved June 22, 1874, with Miss Vinnie
Ream, for the statue of the late Admiral Farragut..
To pay on behalf of the United States, as a portion of the general expenses of the District of
Columbia, to be expended by the commissioners of said District, $1,060,000, only to be
drawn as needed for immediate use; and $300,000 of this sum shall be available from the pas
sage of this act; no salaries to be changed from the standard fixed under act of June 20, 1874.
To pay the interest on the 3-65 bonds issued under the act entitled "An act for the govern
ment of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes," $185.000; and the salary of
the commissioner of the sinking-fund, acting as treasurer thereof, shall be $1,000 per

annum

To defray the expenses of conducting the sanitary service of the District of Columbia. Provided, That the commissioners of the District shall pay concurrently for such service to the board of health a like amount out of the treasury of the District of Columbia, which they are hereby authorized and required to do.

For the payment of the salaries of the inspector of gas and meters, and assistant inspector, for the District of Columbia.

To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to repay Jacob Parmerter, of Plattsburgh, New York, the amount paid by him in satisfaction of a judgment rendered against him for an official act as collector of customs for the district of Champlain

Carried forward

$8, 271, 994 74

5, 000 00

47,500 00

1,000 00

30,750 00

12,549 60

Indefinite.

1,000 00

1,500 00

1,000 00

60,000 00

13,350 00

125, 000 00 200,000 00

6,000 00

5,000 00

1,060, 000 00

185, 000 00 26, 117 50

3, 000 00

684 10

10,056, 445 94

Appropriations, &c.-Continued.

Object of appropriation.

Amount.

Brought forward

To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay Charles Morgan for general average on the
ship Alabama

To pay Thomas J. Durant for preparing a revision of the laws in relation to the District of
Columbia, under the direction of the Committee on the Revision of the Laws..

To enable the Joint Committee on the Library to purchase such works of art for ornament-
ing the Capitol as may be ordered and approved..

And no work of art not the property of the United States shall be exhibited in the Cap-
itol, nor shall any room in the Capitol be used for private studios or works of art, without
permission from the Joint Committee on the Library, given in writing; and it shall be the
duty of the Architect of the Capitol Extension to carry these provisions into effect.
For rent of rooms on the second and third floors of the house numbered 1930, at the corner of
Pennsylvania avenue and 20th street, from November 1, 1874, to June 30, 1876, at the rate
of $1,000 per annum, $1,666.66 to be paid from the unexpended balance of appropriation
for the Northern Boundary Commission, in which service the rooms are occupied. And
the remaining balance of said appropriation, namely, the appropriation made by act of
June 11, 1874, with the portion aforesaid, is hereby continued and rendered available for
the purpose for which it was originally intended, and to complete the office work..
For repairs to the Post-Office Department building, including necessary repairs to the roof,
the construction of stairways to basement, and the cost of heating-apparatus for the entire
building..

To enable the Postmaster-General to pay for not exceeding 30,000 copies quarterly of the
United States Official Postal Guide, and for mailing the same..

That section 8 of the act approved June 23, 1874, "making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the year ending June 30, 1875, and for other purposes," be, and the same is hereby, amended as follows: Insert the word "ounce" in lieu of the words two ounces."

That the Secretary of State be, and he is hereby, authorized to rent, furnish, and keep suitable buildings, with grounds appurtenant, at Peking, for the use of the legation in China, at an annual cost not exceeding $5,000; that the period of such lease shall be for two or more years, and with renewals, as the Secretary of State shall determine; and that the sum of $5,000 is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropri ated, therefor.

To pay the clerk to the Committee on Private Land Claims of the Senate..

That hereafter the salary of the supervising surgeon-general of the United States marine hospital service shall be paid out of the marine hospital fund, at the rate of $1,000 per year; and the supervising surgeon-general shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate,

COAST SURVEY.

For every purpose and object necessary for and incident to the continuation of the survey of
the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, with soundings and observations of deep-
sea temperatures in the Gulf Stream and Gulf of Mexico, and observations of currents
along the same coasts, and the preparation, engraving, lithographing, and issuing charts,
the preparation and publication of the Coast Pilot, and other results of the Coast Survey,
the purchase of materials therefor, and including compensation of civilians engaged in the
work, and pay and subsistence of engineers for the steamers engaged on those coasts.....
For every purpose and object necessary for and incident to the continuation of the survey of
the Pacific coasts of the United States, with soundings and observations of deep-sea tem-
peratures in the branch of the Japan Stream off, and observations of other currents along,
the same coasts; and the preparation, engraving, lithographing, and issuing of charts; the
preparation and publication of the Coast Pilot and other results of the Coast Survey, with
the purchase of materials therefor, including compensation of civilians engaged in the
work, and pay and subsistence of engineers for the steamers used on those coasts..
For every purpose and object necessary for and incident to the continuation of the triangula-
tion of the Coast Survey to form a connection between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of
the United States, and assisting in the State surveys, including compensation of civilians
engaged in the work.....

For repairs and maintenance of the complement of vessels used in the Coast Survey..
For continuing the publication of observations, and their discussion, made in the progress of
the Coast Survey, including compensation of civilians engaged in the work, the publica-
tion to be made at the Government Printing-Office.

For general expenses of the Coast Survey, in reference to the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific
coasts of the United States, namely:
For rent of buildings numbered 211 South New Jersey avenue, and 215 South Capitol street,
(except such small portions as are occupied for the preservation and preparation of standard
weights and measures,) for offices, work-rooms, and work-shops in Washington, D. C......
For rent of fire-proof building numbered 205 South New Jersey avenue, (except the portion
used for standard weights and measures,) for the safe-keeping and preservation of the orig
inal astronomical, magnetic, hydrographic, and other records; the original topographical
and hydrographic maps and charts; the engraved plates, instruments, and other valuable
articles of the Coast Survey.............

For rent of office in San Francisco, Cal .......

For fuel for all the offices and buildings.

For the transportation of instruments, maps, and charts; the purchase of new instruments, books, maps, and charts; and for gas and other miscellaneous expenses...

Vessels for the Coast Survey: For construction, equipment, and outfit of one schooner, of about 72 feet in length, for the observation of currents along and off the Atlantic and Gulf coasts...

Carried forward

$10,056, 445 94

3, 000 00

3,300 00

15, 000 00

1,666 66

106,000 00

20, 000 00

5,000 00 2,220 00

360, 000 00

231, 000 00

50,000 00 41,000 00

8,000 00

10, 000 00

5,000 00

2,000 00

2,000 00

8,000 00

16,000 00

10,945, 632 60

Appropriations, &c.-Continued.

Object of appropriation.

Amount.

Brought forward

Piedras Blancas light-station, California: For completing station and establishing fog-signal at Piedras Blancas, California..

$13, 881, 632 60

15, 000 00

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.

PUBLIC LANDS.

For rent of office of surveyor-general of Louisiana, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses..

For rent of office of surveyor-general of Florida, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses

For rent of office of surveyor-general of Minnesota, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses..

For rent of office of surveyor-general of Dakota Territory, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses

For rent of office of surveyor-general of Kansas, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses..

For rent of office of surveyor-general of Colorado Territory, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses

For rent of office of surveyor-general of New Mexico Territory, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses...

For rent of office of surveyor-general of California, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses...

For rent of office of surveyor-general of Idaho Territory, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses..

For rent of office of surveyor-general of Nevada, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses..

For rent of office of surveyor-general of Oregon, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses..

For rent of office of surveyor-general of Washington Territory, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses..

For rent of office of surveyor-general of Nebraska and Iowa, fuel, books, stationery, and ! other incidental expenses..

1,000 00

1,500 00

2,200 00

2,400 00 2,000 00

3, 000 00

2,500 00

7,000 00

2,500 00

4,000 00

2,000 00

2,000 00

3, 000 00

For rent of office of surveyor-general of Wyoming Territory, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses

For rent of office of surveyor-general of Utah Territory, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses..

2,500 00

2,000 00

For rent of office of surveyor-general of Montana Territory, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses..

For rent of office of surveyor-general of Arizona Territory, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses.

That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause a careful examination to be made for the purpose of ascertaining whether any person, firm, or corporation is now occupying any larger portion of the lands known as Rancho Panoche Grande than is authorized and allowed by the laws relating to mining lands; and that he make full and detailed report of such examination to Congress at the beginning of the next session; and to enable the Secretary of the Interior to carry into effect this provision, the sum of $5,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated............

SURVEYING THE PUBLIC LANDS.

For surveying the public lands in Louisiana, at rates not exceeding $12 per linear mile for township and $10 for section lines, $15,000. And it is hereby provided that, out of the appropriation for surveying the public lands in Louisiana for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875, the sum of $4,200 may be expended in paying for clerical service in the office of the surveyor-general....

2,500 00

2,500 00

5,000 00

15,000 00

For surveying the public lands in Dakota Territory, at rates not exceeding $12 per linear
mile for standard lines, $9 for township, and $8 for section lines
For surveying the public lands in Montana Territory, at rates not exceeding $15 per linear
mile for standard lines, $12 for township, and $10 for section lines
For surveying the public lands in Nebraska, at rates not exceeding $15 per linear mile for
standard lines, $12 for township, and $10 for section lines.....

For surveying the public lands in Florida, at rates not exceeding $12 per linear mile for
standard lines, $12 for township, and $10 for section lines, and for closing up the expenses
of the office so far as relates to the surveying of the public lands..
For surveying the public lands in Minnesota, at rates not exceeding $15 per linear mile for
standard lines, $12 for township, and $10 for section lines .....

10,000 00

30,000 00

50,000 00

40,000 00

75,000 00

For surveying the public lands in Colorado Territory, at rates not exceeding $15 per linear mile for standard lines, $12 for township, and $10 for section lines, and for heavily-timbered lands, at augmented rates, not exceeding $18 per linear mile for standard, $16 for township, and $14 for section lines.

For surveying the public lands in Idaho Territory, at rates not exceeding $15 per linear mile for standard lines, $12 for township, and $10 for section lines, and for heavily-timbered lands, at augmented rates, not exceeding $18 per linear mile for standard, $16 for township, and $14 for section lines

For surveying the public lands in New Mexico Territory, at rates not exceeding $15 per linear mile for standard lines, 12 for township, and $10 for section lines

For surveying the public lands in Arizona Territory, at rates not exceeding $15 per linear mile for standard lines, $12 for township, and $10 for section lines.

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Appropriations, &c.-Continued.

Object of appropriation.

Amount.

Brought forward.

For surveying the public lands in California, at rates not exceeding $15 per linear mile for standard lines, $14 for township, and $12 for section lines, and for heavily-timbered mountain-lands, at augmented rates, not exceeding $18 per linear mile per standard, $16 for township, and $14 for section lines.

For surveying the public lands in Oregon, at rates not exceeding $15 per linear mile for standard lines, $14 for township, and $12 for section lines, and for heavily-timbered lands lying west of the Cascade Mountains, at augmented rates, not exceeding $18 per linear mile for standard, $16 for township, and $14 for section lines

For surveying the public lands in Washington Territory, at rates not exceeding $15 per linear mile for standard lines, $14 for township, and $12 for section lines, and for heavily-timbered lands lying in the mountains, at augmented rates, not exceeding $18 per linear mile for standard, $16 for township, and $14 for section lines..

For surveying the public lands in Utah Territory, at rates not exceeding $15 per linear mile for standard lines, $12 for township, and $10 for section lines...

For surveying the public lands in Nevada, at rates not exceeding $15 per linear mile for standard lines, $12 for township, and $10 for section lines..

For surveying the public lands in Wyoming Territory, at rates not exceeding $15 per linear mile for standard, $12 for township, and $10 for section lines, and for heavily-timbered lands, at augmented rates, not exceeding $18 per linear mile for standard, $16 for township, and $14 for section lines....

For occasional examinations to test the accuracy of surveys in the field

For the survey of Indian reservations and subdividing portions of the same....

Provided, That the sum of $100,000 thereof, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be applicable to the payment of such surveys executed prior to the end of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875.

For surveying confirmed private land-claims in California at legal rates, including necessary office expenses ...

For surveying confirmed private land claims in Colorado Territory, at a rate not exceeding $15 per linear mile

For surveying confirmed private land claims in New Mexico, at a rate not exceeding $15 per linear mile.

Provided, That the provisions of the third section of the act entitled "An act to reduce the expenses of the survey of the public lands in the United States," approved May 30, 1862, requiring that the cost of survey and platting shall be paid by the claimant for any private land claim before a patent therefor shall be issued, be, and the same is hereby, repealed.

For survey of the boundary between New Mexico and Arizona, being so much of the thirtysecond meridian west from the Washington Observatory as lies between the parallels of thirty-one degrees and twenty minutes and thirty-seven degrees of north latitude, at a rate not exceeding $70 per linear mile

EXPENSES OF THE COLLECTION OF REVENUE FROM SALES OF PUBLIC LANDS. For salaries and commissions of registers of land-offices and receivers of public moneys at ninety land-offices

For incidental expenses of the land-offices

For expenses of depositing moneys received from sales of public lands...

To meet the expenses of suppressing depredations upon the timber on the public lands..

CAPITOL EXTENSION.

For work on the Capitol, and for general care and repairs thereof...
For improvement of the Capitol Grounds, according to the plans and under the general direc-
tion of Fred. Law Olmstead, to be expended by the Architect of the Capitol...

And the telegraph.companies having offices in the Capitol are directed to take from the Capitol Grounds, and the streets around the same, all telegraph poles, and connect these lines with the Capitol by means of cables laid underground; and further, that the Washington and Georgetown and the Metropolitan Railway Companies are directed to take up such portions of their tracks as may come in the way of the improvement of the Capitol Grounds and relay the same as may be directed by the officers in charge of the improvements of the Capitol Grounds. And the Architect of the Capitol is hereby directed to move from the Capitol Grounds all stables, workshops, and other buildings which may be in the way of the improvements of said grounds.

For stable for mail-wagons, &c., for Senate, to be erected on lot at the north of the Capitol, recently purchased by the United States...

For repairing steam-boilers and for steam-traps for Senate wing.

BOTANIC GARDENS.

For lining with wood the iron ventilators of the conservatory, $400; for sash for double glaz ing for north front of the same, $350; for concrete or other walks for garden, $800; for additional forcing-house, $1,000; for painting and glazing, $600; for fence to square on the south side of Maryland avenue, 8600; in all..

For building for soil and coal shed on the south side of Maryland avenue, $1,200; and for filling and grading the bed of the old canal, $1,500...

That any moneys appropriated for the purpose of erecting a building on the ground owned by the Women's Christian Association of the District of Columbia, under the act of June 23, 1874, which may remain unexpended on the 30th of June, 1875, are hereby continued and rendered available for the service of the ensuing fiscal year.

Carried forward

$14, 316, 232 60

70,000 00

70,000 00

40,000 00

30,000 00

20,000 00

30,000 00 10,000 CO 191,820 00

20,000 00

10,000 00

10,000 00

27, 370 00

525,700 00 57,940 00 13, 000 00 5, 000 00

50,000 00

200, 000 00

10, 000 00 3,500 00

3,750 00

2,700 00

15,727, 012 60

Appropriations, &c.-Continued.

Object of appropriation.

Amount.

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REFORM SCHOOL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

For the superintendent, $1,500; two assistant superintendents, at $750 each; matron, $600; two teachers, at $600 each; for medicines and physician's fees, $500; gardener, $720; superintendent of workshops, $600; laborer, $144; seamstress, laundress, and servants, $540; and for fuel, clothing, and incidentals, $2,696; making, in all, the sum of...

METROPOLITAN POLICE.

For salaries and other necessary expenses of the Metropolitan police for the District of Columbia..

Provided, That a further sum, amounting to $102,635, shall concurrently be paid to defray the expenses of the said Metropolitan police force, out of the treasury of the District of Columbia: Provided, That the duties devolved and the authority conferred upon the board of metropolitan police by law, for police purposes, in said District, shall extend to and include all public squares or places; and said board are hereby authorized and required to make appropriate rules and regulations in relation thereto.

To enable the proper accounting officers to settle the accounts of Binger Herman, late receiver of public moneys at Roseburgh, Oregon, the sum of $545.77 is hereby appropriated, of which the sum of $116.53 only may be repaid from the Treasury as balance due him for overpayment on account of sales of public lands..

GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE.

For the support, clothing, medical, and moral treatment of the insane of the Army and Navy and revenue-cutter service, and of all persons who may have become insane since their entry into the military or naval service of the United States and who are indigent, and of the indigent insane of the District of Columbia, in the Government Hospital for the Insane. For completing the river-wall and raising boundary-walls, at their intersection with the same For general repairs and improvements, including the main-entrance to the hospital, and for i coal-vault in the rear of the east wing of the hospital building..

For supplying the hospital with water from the Potomac aqueduct..

For the purpose of paying the State Lunatic Asylum for insane convicts, at Auburn, New York, for the keeping of George Sheppard and James Blowers, United States convicts who became insane while undergoing sentence, and who were kept and maintained in said asylum after their term of sentence had expired, the sum of

COLUMBIA INSTITUTION FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB.

For the support of the institution, including salaries and incidental expenses, the maintenance of the beneficiaries of the United States, and $500 for the books and illustrative apparatus.. For continuing the work on the erection, furnishing, and fitting up the buildings of the institution, in accordance with the plans submitted to Congress...

$15, 727, 012 60

10,000.00

205, 270 00

345 77

150, 171 00 8,748 00

10,000 00 10,000 00

5, 009 46

48,000 00

40,000 00

COLUMBIA HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN AND LYING-IN ASYLUM, AND OTHER CHARITIES. For the support of the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum, over and above the probable amount which will be received from pay-patients To complete the purchase of the ground around Columbia Hospital, $25,000, which shall be available immediately....

For care, support, and medical treatment of 75 transient paupers, medical and surgical pa-
tients, in some proper medical institution in the city of Washington or in the District of
Columbia, under a contract to be formed with such institution, $15,000, or so much thereof
as may be necessary, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior...
For the Soldiers and Sailors' Orphans' Home, Washington City, District of Columbia, to be
expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior.

To aid in the support of the Children's Hospital, Washington, District of Columbia...
For the Freedmen's Hospital and Asylum in Washington, District of Columbia, namely: For
subsistence, salaries, and compensation, fuel and light, clothing, rent of hospital buildings,
medicines and medical supplies, forage and transportation, and miscellaneous expenses.
For the immediate relief of the suffering poor of the District of Columbia, to be distributed
by the commissioners of the said District.

For the National Association for the relief of the Colored Women and Children of the District
of Columbia....

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.

For preservation of the collections of the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Govern

ment........

For fitting up new halls required for the Government collections..
To complete the heating-apparatus of the National Museum

WAR DEPARTMENT.

ARMORIES AND ARSENALS.

For Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois:

For shop A: For a wood-working and gun-carriage shop for arsenal.

For shop F: For a rolling-mill and for forging-shop for the armory

And $100,000 of said appropriation for shops A and F shall be available immediately.

Carried forward

24,300 00

25,000 00

15,000 00

10,000.00 5,000 00

45, 000 00

10,000 00

10,000 00

20,000.00 10,000 00 2,500 00

178,000.00 75,000.00

16,614,556 83

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