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1918

Laws in Volume
Displaying 201 - 300 of 436

Chapter 202

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Orange county to provide annual allowances for the clerk, sheriff and Commonwealth attorney of said county.
Public officers, Budget, Salaries

Chapter 203

An ACT to regulate the running at large of dogs in the county
Public officers, Property

Chapter 204

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 3401 of the acts of 1908, regulating the employment of children in certain employments, approved March 13, 1908, as amended by chapter 339 of the acts of 1914, approved March 27, 1914.
Children -- Institutional care, Employment and labor, Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 205

An ACT to ratify and confirm certain acts of Henry C. Stuart, former governor of Virginia, in relation to the securing of options in the name of the State of Virginia, on certain lands to be used for military purposes, situated in Prince George county, Virginia, and to authorize the proper officers of the State of Virginia to assign such options to the United States Camp, Inc.
Armed forces, Property

Chapter 206

An ACT to incorporate the town of Dungannon, in Scott county,
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Public officers, Law Enforcement, Property, Budget, Taxation

Chapter 207

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Warren county to borrow the sum of ten thousand dollars, and issue bonds therefor, for the permanent improvement and construction of certain roads in Front Royal and South River magisterial districts of said county.
Bonds, Budget, Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 208

An ACT to authorize the submission to the legal voters of the city of Winchester, Virginia, of the question whether or not they will favor the issuance by said city of not more than $75,000 of sanitary sewage extension bonds; and authorize the issuance by said city of not more than $75,000 of said bonds, the proceeds whereof shall be used for the extension by said city of its existing sanitary system of sewers and sewage disposal plant if a majority of those voting vote in favor of such issuance.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 209

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act relating to the situs for taxation of intangible property owned by corporations which do no business in this State
Taxation, Business, Amendments

Chapter 210

An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-section 6 of section 2086 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended.
Fishing

Chapter 211

An ACT to amend and re-enact section third of an act entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of Norfolk county to borrow a sum not to exceed $250,000, for the purpose of purchasing and improving roads and bridges in said county, and to issue bonds therefor, secured by deed of trust or other lien on the interest of said county in the Norfolk county ferries; to provide for the payment of said bonds, to create and authorize a commission to dispense the funds so obtained.
Amendments, Bonds, Budget, Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 212

An ACT to define and regulate the practice of poropathy and manipulative surgery, to provide license of practitioners thereof, and to provide for a penalty for the violation of this act, and for other pur.
Healthcare, Employment and labor, Judicial

Chapter 213

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 848 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in retation to the compensation a aa
Legislative Amendments

Chapter 214

An ACT regulating the hours of labor of women.
Employment and labor

Chapter 215

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 852 of the Code of 1887, as amended by an act approved March 14, 1908, relating to compensation to clerks of boards of supervisors.
Amendments, Salaries, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 216

An ACT to make uniform the law relating to limited partnerships.
Business

Chapter 217

An ACT to provide a new charter for the city of Clifton Forge,
Amendments, Business, Cemeteries, Charity, Education, Jails, Judicial, Law Enforcement, Municipal charters, Pensions, Property, Public expenditures, Taxation, Utilities, Voting, Wards

Chapter 218

An ACT to authorize Greene and Madison counties to erect, build and construct a bridge across Rapidan river.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Bonds, Budget, Public officers

Chapter 219

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 10 and 11 of an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools, and to pay the interest on the public debt, and to provide a special tax for pensions as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution, approved April 16, 1903, and acts amendatory thereof.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Pensions, Education

Chapter 220

An ACT requiring clerks of courts to make report to the State registrar of vital statistics of all divorces, granted and pending.
Divorce

Chapter 221

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3191 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 13, 1914, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3191, chapter 154, of the Code, as amended by an act in force on and after February 2, 1892, and by an act in force on and after July 1, 1806, and by an act approved March 14, 1910, relating to how a person is licensed to practice law in the State of Virginia.
Amendments, Lawyers, Judicial, Employment and labor

Chapter 222

An ACT to provide that members and employees and agents of the State highway commission may use toll roads and toll bridges, without payment of toll.
Transportation

Chapter 223

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act approved November 28, 1903, entitled an act to provide for the contraction of the corporate limits of cities and towns.
Boundaries, Municipal charters

Chapter 224

An ACT to prevent corporations not organized under the laws of this Commonwealth securing a certificate of authority or license to do business in Virginia where the name of such corporation would conflict with a corporation already doing business in Virginia.
Business

Chapter 225

An ACT to ratify and confirm a certain contract made between the bridge commissioners of the county of Stafford, a corporation, duly chartered by the general assembly of Virginia by an act approved February 20, 1886, and Gari Melchers and Corinne Lawton Melchers, of the county of Stafford, Va.
Public officers, Property, Transportation, Municipal charters

Chapter 226

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 3 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for change in the form of government of cities having a population of less than 100,000, and of towns, and to provide in what manner such cities and towns may adopt such form of government
Amendments, Municipal charters, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 227

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4, 9, 61, 62, 63, 64 and 90 of an act approved February 28, 1896, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Roanoke and the acts amendatory thereof.
Municipal charters, Public officers, Judicial, Budget

Chapter 228

An ACT to provide that judgment or decree, as the case may be, shall be given for the defendant in any motion or proceeding to forfeit a bail bond or recognizance, or in any proceeding to enforce the same or a judgment thereon, where it shall appear that the person for whose alleged default such motion is made or proceedings are founded or such bond or recognizance was forfeited, was prevented from complying with the condition of such bond or recognizance by reason of his having enlisted or been drafted in the army or navy of the United States.
Armed forces, Bonds, Judicial

Chapter 229

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2115 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended in relation to fishing by non-residents.
Fishing

Chapter 230

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1402 of the Code of Virginia, approved March 28, 1902, in relation to suits by and against trustees.
Religious Institutions, Property, Judicial

Chapter 231

An ACT to allow public officials in Virginia, both State and local, to deposit records in the Virginia State Library.
Public officers, Libraries, Public expenditures

Chapter 232

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 14 of an act entitled an act to license and regulate the running of automobiles, locomobiles and other vehicles and conveyances, whose motive power is other than animal power, along and over public highways of this State; to provide for the registration of the same; to provide uniform rules regulating the use and speed thereof, and to prescribe penalties for the violation of said rules and regulations and for the licensing of chauffeurs, and to repeal an act entitled an act to regulate the running of automobiles, locomobiles and other vehicles and conveyances whose motive power is other than animals, along and over the public highways of this State; to provide for the registration of the same; to provide uniform rules regulating the use and speed thereof, and to prescribe for the violation of said rules.
Transportation

Chapter 233

An ACT to provide for public health nursing and medical inspection and health inspection of school children.
Healthcare, Education

Chapter 234

An ACT for the relief of all taxpayers in the State of Virginia
Taxation, Property

Chapter 235

An ACT to amend and reenact section 2 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, entitled an act imposing public duties on heat, light, power, water and telephone companies and providing for the control and regulation of such companies by the State corporation commission, which was approved March 27, 1914.
Utilities, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 236

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the court in which he is tried to sentence certain prisoners to hard labor on the public roads instead of confinement in the penitentiary, for the commission of felony, as heretofore amended, including the amendment thereto in regard to contracts for the hiring of convicts, as amended by acts approved February twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and twelve, and March twenty-second, nineteen hundred and sixteen.
Amendments, Armed forces, Jails, Prisons, Forced labor, Labor, Transportation

Chapter 237

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 21, 1916, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 21, 1914, entitled an act to amend und re-enact an act approved March 12, 1912, entitled an act to amend and reenact an act approved March 11, 1908, entitled an act to amen:i and re-enact an act approved March 10, 1906, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 7 and 17, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 7, 17 and 18 of an act approved February 20, 1892, entitled an act to provide for the settlement of the public debt of Virginia, not funded et cetera, and variously amended January 31, 1894; January 23, 1896; January 25, 1898; February 3, 1900; February 16, 1901; April 2, 1902; March 10, 1906; March 11, 1908; March 14, 1910; March 12, 1912; March 21, 1914, and March 21, 1916.
Amendments, Bonds, Debt, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 238

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 44 of an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools, and to pay the interest on the public debt, and to provide a special tax for pensions as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution,
Taxation, Inheritance and succession, Public expenditures, Education, Pensions, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 239

An ACT to authorize the school board of Newport magisterial district of the county of Warwick, Virginia, to borrow money for the purpose of constructing a school building, or buildings, and to defray school operating expenses in said district, and to issue bonds therefor, not to exceed the sum of $50,000.00
Education, Budget, Bonds

Chapter 240

An ACT to provide for the admission of women to the College of William and Mary in Virginia.
Education, Equality before the law, Civil Rights

Chapter 241

An ACT relating to the filing of answers in suits for the sale of infants’ interest in real estate.
Children -- Institutional care, Custody of children, Property, Judicial

Chapter 242

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3059-y of chapter 315 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia of 1914, with reference to the time of holding the regular terms of court in the twenty-fifth judicial
Judicial

Chapter 243

An ACT in relation to tax on incorporated school leagues.
Education, Taxation, Incorporation

Chapter 244

An ACT prohibiting boating, fishing, hunting, gunning and skating in, or over the waters of any lake, pond or reservoir used as, or in connection with, the public water supply of any city in this Commonwealth, having by the last United States census a population of more than nineteen thousand inhabitants, without the consent in writing of the city, or water supply company owning such lake, pond or reservoir, or entitled to use the waters of the same in connection with its water supply, and providing the penalties for the violation of the same.
Fishing, Hunting, Public spaces

Chapter 245

An ACT to set forth the qualifications prerequisite to taking examination as registered pharmacists, on and after April 1, 1922,
Education, Employment and labor

Chapter 246

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 55 of chapter V of an act concerning corporations, which became a law May 21, 1903; as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 12, 1908, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 23, 1916, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows: {S B 318}
Business, Taxation, Incorporation

Chapter 247

An ACT authorizing the city of Fredericksburg to issue bonds to redeem what are known as gas and bridge bonds, and to issue bonds to pay for the construction and equipment of a high school building for the city on such site as the city may select.
Bonds, Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 248

An ACT to provide for taking a special school census in Newport magisterial district of Warwick county, and for basing the apportionment of school funds upon such census.
Education, Children -- Institutional care, Public expenditures

Chapter 249

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 239 and 240 of the Code
Amendments, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 250

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter 3 of an act entitled an act to regulate the practice of pharmacy and the composition, branding, possession, dispensing and sale of drugs, poison and narcotics, and to repeal certain existing acts in relation thereto
Healthcare, Public expenditures

Chapter 251

An ACT appropriating the sum of $6,500.00 or so much thereof as may be necessary for rebuilding causeway and bridge at Jamestown Island.
Public expenditures, Monuments and memorials

Chapter 252

An ACT to cause all deposits or accounts in the several banks and banking corporations or associations in this Commonwealth, whereof the depositor is unknown, or the person or persons, to whom such account or deposit belongs, or belong, is, or are unknown, and against which deposit or account there has been no check, draft or order for a period of twenty-one years, by one entitled to check thereon, to escheat to the Commonwealth; and to direct the manner of reporting same, and the final disposition thereof.
Public expenditures, Property, Debt, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 253

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 24 and 25 of an act entitled an act to provide the establishment, proper construction, and permanent improvement of the public roads and landings, for building and keeping in good order and repair all public roads, bridges, causeways, and wharves in the several counties of the State, and to repeal chapter 43 of the Code of Virginia approved March 12, 1904.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 254

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 50S of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, and to appropriate sums collected hereunder for the payment of pensions and for the support of the public free schools of the primary and grammar grades.
Taxation, Pensions, Education, Inheritance and succession, Public expenditures

Chapter 255

An ACT in relation to Virginia council of defense, and county and city councils of defense, appropriating money for the expenses of the same, and authorizing and empowering the boards of supervisors of counties and the governing bodies of cities, to contribute to the expenses of said county and city councils.
Armed forces, Public expenditures, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 256

An ACT to prohibit the soliciting, aiding or permitting prostitution or illicit sexual intercourse, the use of automobiles or other conveyances for such purposes; to prohibit the keeping of assignation houses and harboring prostitutes for immoral purposes.
Transportation, Law Enforcement, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 257

An ACT for the rellef of oyster planters, from their rent of oyster planting grounds in the waters of the Commonwealth on account of “green gill” in the oysters.
Agriculture, Business, Fishing

Chapter 258

An ACT to require the clerks of courts to keep a separate book to be known as the Federal farm loan mortgage book and to provide how farm loan mortgages shall be recorded.
Agriculture, Business, Property

Chapter 259

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 14, 15, 23, 24 and 28, of an act entitled an act to creat a State department of game and Inland fisheries, and providing for the issuing of licenses to provide revenue for the support of such department, and imposing penalties for its violation
Hunting, Law Enforcement, Wildlife

Chapter 260

An ACT to require the equipment of grinding, polishing and buffing wheels with suitable devices for the protection of operators and other persons from dust and refuse thrown off from such wheels; making non-compliance a misdemeanor and providing penalty.
Employment and labor, Public expenditures

Chapter 261

An ACT to amend and reenact an act approved February 17 18980 (acts 1889-90), as amended by an act approved February 12, 189:(acts 1891-982) as amended by an act approved March 7, 1900 (acts 1899 1900), to protect the owners of bottles, siphons, siphon heads, tins, kegs crates and boxes, used in the manufacture and sale of soda waters, mineral or aerated waters, cider, ginger, ale, milk, cream, ice cream, soft drinks, or other beverages, medicine and perfumery, and to fix the punishment for unlawful buying, having, handling, using, trafficking in or disposing of such bottles, siphons, siphon heads, tins, kegs, crates, and boxes, and to provide when and how a search warrant may be issued to discover and obtain the same, and to declare and define what shall be deemed unlawful buying, having, handling, using, disposing of, dealings and trafficking in the same.
Amendments, Business, Healthcare, Labor, Utilities

Chapter 262

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3418 of the Code of Virginia in regard to the appointment of commissioners to execute deeds.
Amendments, Property, Judicial

Chapter 263

An ACT to provide for a commission to study educational conditions in Virginia and elsewhere, and to report to the next general assembly its findings, together with recommendations for a revision of the school laws and amendments to article IX of the Constitution, and authorizing the State board of education to meet the expenses thereof.
Education, Legislative Amendments, Public expenditures

Chapter 264

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act to provide for a method for the better assessment of personal property under the control of fiduciaries and the several courts of the Commonwealth
Amendments, Taxation, Judicial, Property

Chapter 265

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2197 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the disposition of dead animals and fowls, as here- tofore amended.
Dead bodies (Law), Property

Chapter 266

An ACT to license persons to breed game, game fish and fur bearing animals for sale, prescribing regulations for such business and providing penalties for the violation thereof.
Agriculture, Business, Fishing, Hunting, Wildlife

Chapter 267

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1359 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended, with reference to grain to be ground in turn; amount of toll; penalty for violations.
Agriculture, Amendments, Business, Debt, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 268

An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-section 2 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sub-sections 2, 6, 9, 10, and 13, of section 2086 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, approved March 22, 1916.
Fishing, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 269

An ACT to require railway companies, operating by electric power or steam, and their employees, to clear from their rights-of-way, brush and trees at public grade crossings along their line.
Transportation

Chapter 270

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act, approved February 17, 1910, entitled an act to enable incorporated towns and cities to contribute to the building or improvement of public roads and bridges leading to such town or cities, as amended by an act, approved February 17, 1916; so as to enable incorporated towns and cities to construct bridges across streams beyond or within their corporate limits, to borrow money and issue their municipal bonds therefor, for the purchase or construction of such bridges, and to validate municipal bonds heretofore issued!
Transportation, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Bonds

Chapter 271

An ACT to punish the making or use of false statements to obtain property or credit.
Business, Debt, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 272

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to allow executors and other fiduciaries to invest in Virginia three per centum bonds issued by virtue of an act approved February 14, 1882, as amended by an act approved February 9, 1898, as amended by an act approved March 22, 1916.
Amendments, Bonds, Budget, Property

Chapter 273

An ACT in relation to the commission to establish the boundary line between the States of Virginia and West Virginia.
Boundaries

Chapter 274

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide in cities containing forty thousand inhabitants or more for the appointment of matron for the jails, and to fix their compensation and provide how the same shall be paid
Judicial, Jails, Employment and labor, Public officers, Salaries

Chapter 275

An ACT authorizing experts in making mental tests to act as members of commissions in proceedings for commitment of feeble-minded persons to the State colonies and also to testify before such commis.
Children -- Institutional care, Healthcare, Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 276

An ACT to provide for the disposition of infants of convict mothers.
Children -- Institutional care, Charity, Prisons, Custody of children

Chapter 277

An ACT to extend the time for collecting taxes accounted for by city, county and town treasurers, and not returned delinquent.
Taxation

Chapter 278

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 448 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to commissioners of revenue.
Amendments, Legislative Amendments, Public officers, Property, Boundaries

Chapter 279

An ACT to amend section 3 of an act entitled an act providing for the sanitation of slaughter houses, abattoirs, packing houses, sausage factories, rendering plants and other places where animals are slaughtered for sale for human food, or where animal carcasses or parts thereof are prepared for human food; providing for the licensing of such establishments: defining violations of the act, and fixing penalties therefor.
Agriculture, Business

Chapter 280

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 280 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended and re-enacted.
Amendments, Public expenditures, Employment and labor, Education, Libraries

Chapter 281

An ACT to provide for the appointment of staff officers in the national guard.
Armed forces, Public officers

Chapter 282

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 14, 1906, entitled an act to empower boards of supervisors to enact special und local legislation to protect the public roads and bridges from obstruction, encroachment and injury, to make violations of such enactment a misdemeanor, and to provided penalties, approved March 15, 1910.
Transportation, Public spaces, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 283

An ACT to provide for the redemption of district and county road bonds under certnin conditions.
Bonds, Budget, Transportation

Chapter 284

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Russell county, Virginia, to establish and maintain toll gates upon the several improved roads in the several magisterial districts of said county, fix the rate of toll thereof and collect the same.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 285

An ACT authorizing the board of directors of any public service corporation operating a gas, electric or water plant within the limits of any city or town, or within territory contiguous thereto, to sell or lease to said city or town the entire plant of said corporation, or any part thereof, including its franchises and easements, provided said action of the board of directors be authorized or ratified by an affirmative vote of a majority in interest of the stock issued and outstanding, unless a larger interest is provided by the charter or by-laws of said corporation.
Utilities, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 286

An ACT for the appointment of trustees for the town of York.
Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 287

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2105 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to fish ladders, as amended by an act, approved March
Fishing

Chapter 288

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 14, 1908, and entitled an act giving to cities and towns upon leasing or purchasing gas, electric and water companies operating in territory contiguous to its corporate limits the right to continue to operate, maintain and extend same.
Utilities, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 289

An ACT to authorize the board of visitors of the Virginia Poly-technic Institute. to sell and convey a certain parcel of land not needed for the purposes of said institution.
Education, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 290

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3160 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended.
Judicial, Public expenditures, Salaries

Chapter 291

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to regulate the time and manner in which common carriers doing business in this State shall adjust and pay just freight charges and claims for loss or damage to freight, and claims for storage, demurrage, and car service
Transportation, Business, Public expenditures, Judicial

Chapter 292

An ACT to provide for the sale or partition of personal property of greater value than twenty dollars where it is owned by two or more persons jointly who cannot agree upon a sale or division of the same.
Property, Judicial, Debt

Chapter 293

An ACT to allow personal representatives and guardians of estates of $100.00 or less, in the discretion of the court, to qualify by giving bond without surety, and to provide that upon the qualification of a personal representative of an estate of a decedent, of $100.00 or less in value, no tax or court cost shall be charged upon such qualification.
Inheritance and succession, Taxation, Property

Chapter 294

An ACT to authorize the school board of the town of Covington, in the county of Alleghany, to borrow a sum of money not exceeding $30,000 to meet notes for money borrowed by trustees for the purpose of erecting the graded school building in said town, and to complete the said building.
Education, Budget, Public expenditures, Bonds

Chapter 295

An ACT to permit the teaching of high school subjects in primary schools in certain cases.
Education

Chapter 296

An ACT to authorize cities in this Commonwealth of fifty thousand inhabitants or more, according to the last census of the United States, to increase the salary of the civil justice of said city to an amount not to exceed four thousand dollars per annum, during the term of office of said civil justice.
Salaries, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 297

An ACT to repeal the special and local acts relating to the catching of fish in the waters of Russell county.
Fishing

Chapter 298

An ACT to make the north fork of the Holston river in Saltville district of Washington county, a lawful fence.
Fence Laws, Property, Agriculture

Chapter 299

An ACT to provide for the protection of game in the counties of Amelia and Nottoway.
Hunting, Wildlife, Property

Chapter 300

An ACT regulating marriages and the issuance of marriage licenses; prohibiting marriages in certain cases, providing penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act.
Marriage, Divorce, Civil Rights

Chapter 301

An ACT to regulate the treatment, handling and work of prisoners sentenced to the State penitentiary and to appropriate funds therefor.
Prisons, Labor, Healthcare, Education, Recreation
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