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lOWEXTIOX.
Mr. Editor :
As I will not under any state of cir
cumstances be a candidate for the
convention, I hope that it will not
bo considered an act of presumption
on my part to call the attention of
the people of Pike county to the
great importance of the approaching
election.
For several years a majority of
the people—l me m a majority of
those people who read and think,
have been sensible of the glaring de
fects of our present constitution, and
have been clamorous for a conven
tion to reform them. .Since tire war
several of the Southern States, and
among them Arkansas, Texas, Ten
nessee and Alabama have held con
ventions and made many salutary
reforms in their fraudulent laws.
Our Legislatm-e for many years act
ing under the influence of an insid
ious opposition to the call of a con
vention, have at last vouchsafed to
the people an opportunity of amend
ing their constitution, and I hope
that they will not be slow to avail
themselves of it.
If there is nothing else to stimu
late the people in promoting the ob
ject of a convention, the profligacy
and extravagance of the late Legis
lature, should have that effect. Let
us glarce for one moment at tiie
business transactions of that session,
and make a brief summary of results.
It is a well understood action of do
mestic economy, that when a man
has been reduced by some ipi fortu
nate time in the affairs of life from
wealth to poverty, common sense
dictates the prosperity of bringing
his expenses within the limits of iiis
reduced means, Onr Legislature lias
acted exactly on a reverse principle,
and as our taxable resources have
been diminished, our expenses have
been increased in an inverse ratio.
A Legislature composed of more
than two hundred members, with a
per diem of seven dollars and mil
eage—the multitude of clerks for
the two houses, the committee
and the executive department —the
retinue of pages and door keepers,
and a contingent fund o L twel\c
thousand dollars aggregate a fear
ful amount of public expenditure.
Heavy as our taxes are, they must be
increased to meet the increased lia*
bilities of the State, and unless a
convention is called, and some re
striction placed in the Constitution
upon the money borrowing power of
the Legislature, they will continue
to increase until every interest in
I the state will suffer under the blight
| ing influence of the taxing power.
The gigantic evil of the day is ‘‘State
aid,” and there is no way of crudiea
tin' r this vicious principle from the
Legislation of the State, except by
following the example of Texas,
Tennessee and Alabama, and placing
an absolute prohibition in Hie Con
stitution, at the session of the Legis
lature, before the last new bonds
amounting to several hundred dol-
THOMASTOX. GA.. SATURDAY MORNING. APRIL 7, 1877.
lars were issued to pay the deferred
interest on State aid bonds, and at
the last session another batch of
more than two millions of one per
cent bonds was authorized to be is
sued in exchange for the endorsed 7
per cent bonds of the Macon and
Brunswick, the North and South
and the Chattanooga rail roads, the
interest on which must be paid by
increased taxation. Gen. Colquitt
tells us that “m analyzing the pres
ent State liabilities, which amount
to the sum of 8L0,745,847, I find
that two thirds of the amount, or
$10,708,397 was incurred by reason
of state u’d leaving only
as the amount of debt growing out
of other sources,” and he goes on to
tell us further that not a single road
“that the State has encouraged by
her endorsement, has been success
ful as an investment.” And yet in
the very face of this unfortunate
experience we find that the late Leg
islature recognized the same prinei*
pie.of State aid to railroads, by ap
propriating out of the proceeds of
the convict labor of the State, some
indefinite amount ranging probably
from sixty to eighty thousand dol
lars, in aid of another rail road cor
poration.
This abuse of the credit of the
State—this waste of public money
must be stopped by a ’prohibitory
clause in the Constitution, or our
taxes will become unindurable, and
finally result in hopeless bank
ruptcy. We must piace in the Con
stitution safe guards to protect us
from that great engine of fraud and
corruption—the Lobby—a modern
exeressenee which has insidiously
fastened itself on the bo ly politic
and whose baleful influence com
mencing in the national metropolis,
is felt in everv State of the Union,
1 desire with as much brevity as
possible, and without elaboration to
advert to some of tlie defects of the
constitution, and to point out what
l conceive to be appropriate reme
dies.
We need a convention in the first
place, to place a limit in the Consti
tution on the expenses of the gov
ernment.
We need a convention to restrict
the money borrowing power of the
Legislature, and of the municipal
government of every town and city,
in the State, and to prohibit State,
county or city aul to any rail road, or
any other corporation.
We need a convention to reduce
the homestead to one thousand dol
lars in real estate, and five hundred
in personal property. This is a fair
compromise between external opin
ions, and in my opinion just, both
the debtor and creditor. Xo woman
and children should be turned out
of house and home, without a shel
ter at the will of an inexorable cred
itor, and no bankrupt of large prop
erty should be permitted to retain
his broad acres, and his boarded
wealth at the expense of his credit
ors, but should be made to accommo
date himself to his reduced condi
tion in life.
Wo need a convention to divert
the Governor of the immense patro
nage which the appointing power
gives to him.
We need a convention to reduce
the members of the Legislature, and
to base representation on taxation in
the Senate, and on population m the
House of Representatives. One
hundred members in the House, and
thirty in the Senate, are sufficient for
all useful purposes of Legislation.
The Senate was designed to be the
conservative branch ot the Legisla
ture. As it is, it is of very little more
service than a fifth wheel to a wagon.
Reorganize it, and take from it its
originating powers of Legislation,
and make it what it .was intended to
be, the conservative b tlLnee wheel
of the law making p-owr.
We need a convc nimi to reorga
nize the Judiciary. Lie adminis
tration of the laws avc become a
grievous burden t > ■ people. Or
ganize the Inferior Lent upon the
place of the old In: -or Court which
was in vogue so he g ...m tug us. Let
the Courc be coni; ••! f one jus
tice from each mill i < .gstrict, who
shall serve witho.: c mipensation,
and the Court of v. lick three should
make a quorum, should nave a limi
ted jurisdiction in the administra
tion of the civil and criminal laws of
the country, and exclusive jurisdic
tion of the financial, school and lo
cal interest of the c unity. Much of
the local matter which involves so
much of the expeus . and so much
of the time of the Legislature, should
be placed under the control of this
tribunal. A similar court composed
of intelligent farmers was the pride
of Virginia for more than a century,
' and her ere at lawyer \\ at kins Seigh,*
pronounced it the safest judicial tri
bunal in the Slat. 1 , and although it
was not familiar with the abstruse
principles or tecnical rules of law,
its decisions were generali\ in accoi
dance with law because they we res
based on reason and justice, thus
verifying the aphorism of the on!
black letter Judge, that law is the
perfect ion of reastm. . -
Wo need an amendment to the
constitution, which will secure more
permanency to our statutes, ihe
j code is so often changed that it is not
an easy matter for the people to
learn what the law is. Require a
majority of two thirds to alter the
code, or to pass any law of general
interest or to reconsider any bill, and
require the yeas and navs to be takmi
oir every general law, and published
as a chock on improvident Legisla
tion.
I now come to the leading motive
which prompted this communica
tion. I received a letter from a very
intelligent gentlemen i.f Nashville
Tenn,, who had been a member of
the Legislature of that State, and
for several years clerk of the house
of Representatives, in relation to
the financial policy of that State, i
append an extract from that letter,
as well as extracts from the new con
stitution of Tennessee, Alabama and
j Texas, to which I wish to call the
| attention of your readers. We have
as much intelligence and as much
capacity for good government as the
people of either of those States, and
yet we have lagged behind them in
those constitutional reforms, which
our changed and impoverished con
dition so imperitively demand. State
aid brought the two former States
to bankruptcy, but taught them a
lesson which we can read in their
amended constitution, but which our
own State is very slow to learn. To
save ourselves, we must tie the
hands of the Legislature, so that it
cannot upon the pretext of aiding a
rail road corporation, inflict a great
injury on the people. We ate poor,
as a people, very poor, and we
should adopt the most stringent sys
tem of economy in the administra
tion of our State and county finan
ces.
What are the objections urged
against a convention Y The expense
of holding a convention would be
less than has been wasted by the Leg
islature in one session. In the con
vention of 1845 of twen
ty one, composed of the ablest and
best men of the State, with Gov.
Jenkins at its head, reported a con
stitution which was adopted by the
convention with but little change,
and very little discussion, and my
recollection is that the session of the
convention did not exceed ten days.
If there is any apprehension that a
new constitution will make any
change affecting the vested riglrs or
interest of any portion or class of
our people of which there is not the
most remote probability, that appre
hension may be dismissed,, because
even it it is well founded, the constitu
tion adopted bv the convention must
be submitted to thepeojfle, and rati
fied by them before it can have any
(finding force. In conclusion per
mit me to say that with anew consti
tution, and renewed energies on onr
part, we will outlive the dark and
dreary prospect,which now surrounds
us, and realize that improvement in
our agricultural pursuits, and busi
ness relations, which are the unerr
ing harbingers of increased comfort
and prosperity.
\Ym D. ALEXANDER.
TENNESSEE.
Extract from a letter dated at
Nashville March 9th 1877, to Wm.
D. Alexander:
“Under the present constitution
which was adopted in 1810, the
General assembly meets every two
years. The pay of the members is
limited to 72 days, though they can
remain in session as long as they
see proper, but draw no pay after
the seventy-fifth day.
The House of Representatives has
75 members at four dollars per day
and the Senate has 22 members at
the same price. In each hou.e there
is one reading clerk, one journal
clerk, one engrossing clerk, a door
keeper and porter. The clerks re
ceive 80 —the others 84 per day.
These are all the officers allowed and
are ample and sufficient to do all the
business. Tho committees have no
clerks unless they employ them at
their own expense.,, The Governor
receives >j4,OUO with a clerk at $1,500
also discharges the duties of assist
taut adjutant General of the State.
There is now a bill before the Leg
islature which will pass beyond doubt,
repealing the law, allowing these
clerks to the Goyernor Comptroller,
Secretary of State and Treasury.
They were never allowed until 1872,
and previous to that time, all the
assistance of anv of the executive
officers was furnished at their own
expense.” By this bill no officer in
the State can receive over $2,500 ex
cept the Governor whose salary by
the bill is forced at $3,000.”
The constitution provides that
the credit of no city or town shall
be given of loaned to, or in aid of
anv person, company association or
corporation, except upon an election
to be first held, and the assent of
three fourths of the votes cast at
such election, and the 3,128 Sec. of
the Constitution provides that the
credit of the State shall noi be
hereafter loaned, given to, or in aid
of anv person, association, compa
nv, corporation or municipality ; nor
shall the State become the owner in
whole or in part of any bank or a
stockholder with others in any asso
ciation, company, corporation or mu
nicipality. You will see from this
last mentioned section that alter we
rr e t over present indebtedness it will
be impossible for us to go in debt
again, except for the current expen*
Sts of the State government.”
TEXAS.
Extract from the new coustitu*
tion adopted in 1875 :
Article 3, Section 2. “The Senate
; shall consist of thirty-one members,
j and shall never be increased above
j their number. Tiie House of Rep ■
resentativcs shall consist of ninety
three members until the first appor
tionment, after the adoption of their
constitution, when the number may
be increased by the Legislature up
on the ratio of not more than one
Representative for every fifteen thou
sand inhabitants, provided the
number of representatives ffiuli “nev
er exceed one hundred and fifty.”
Sections. “The Leg.s', it arc shall
meet every two years.
Section 24. “The members of the
Legislature shall receive from the
public treasury, such compensation
for their service as may from time
to time be provided by law, not ex
ceeding five dollars per day for the
first sixty days of each session, and
after that, not exceeding two dollars
per day for the remainder of the ses
sion.”
Section 49, “No debt shall lie cre
ated by or on behalf of the State,
except to supply casual deficiencies
of revenue, repel invasion, defend
the State in war, or pay existing
debt. ”
Section 50. “The Legislature
shall have no power to give or to
lend the credit of the State, in aid
of, or to any person association, or
corporation, whether municipal or
other or to pledge the credit of the
State for the payment of the liabili
ties of any individual association or
any other corporation.”
Section 24. ~The Legislature shall
have no power to authorize any coun
ty, city, town or other political cor
poration to lend its credit, or to
grant public money or thing of val
ue to any individual association or
corporation whatever.”
ALABAMA.
Extract from the new constitu
tion adopted in 1872.
“The General assembly shall meet
biennially, the pay of the members
shall be four dollars per day.
L'tie General assembly shall con
sist of not more than thirty-three
Senators, and not more than one
h mid red members of the House of
representatives.
The State shall not engage in works
of internal improvement nor lend
monev, or its credit in aid of such
The General assembly snail have
no power to authorize any county,
city, or town to lend bs credit or to
grant public money or thing of value
m aid of any individual, association
or corporation whatsoever.’’
Look Onl for Charybtlis.
Mr. Editor:
It is not tho case
when any vital or important interest
engrosses the mind, that other inter
ests of equal if not greater niagni
t ude are overlooked.
1 have seen with great concern the
indications of the future crop.—
Thousands of thousands of pounds of
guano have passed into the country,
the most of which will lie used on
cotton to increase the yield. The
area that will be planted in cotton,
judging from the amount of guano
carried into the country, will lie un
usually large, and consequently the
area m cereals proportionately di
minished.
f armers, is this true ? If so, let
us look at inevitable results. Already
the increased supply of cotton is re
ducing the price, even at a season
when ordinarily the price is advanc
ing. Suppose you realize your fond
hope in producing another large crop
of cotton, the price will be so reduc
ed as not to pay for production.
Your great crop involves loss.
When the production of any arti
cle entails loss, the greater the pro
duction the more ruinous does it be
come to produce it.
Now sir, l assume the position,
that any person who will neglect the
production of articles of prime ne
cessity, even of life-sustaining prop
erties* whilst they can be more
cheaply raised than bought, and in
crease the production of any arti
cle that costs more to produce it
than it commands in market, justly
forfeits the credit that is due eco
uomical management, and docs not
deserve credit for such articles as
would have been to his interest to
produce. He who credits such men
does the double crime of risking loss
himself and abetting his neighbors
in self-destruction —for it is only
a matter of time to bring utter ruin.
You need not expect a change of
laws to bring relief to such manage
ment. If 1 could to-day control the
actions of all my countrymen on on
ly one of the two interests, viz: the
convention question or the proper
system of home industries in a wise
and safe dhision of his lands in grain
sufficient to meet the home demands
and forage crops to keep well the
stock of the farm, I would control
them in the latter.
For whenever the production of
any article exceeds to any considera
ble degree the consumption, at once
the producer is injured, even if he
has produced his supplies at home.
But those who have neglected to pro
duce their own supplies are seriously
injured, as well as their fa;tors. Let
me state facts. Many who had sown
full oats had them killed out by the
severity of the winter. They have
not sown spring oats to make up this
deficit, nor have they increased their
corn crop correspondingly, but have
bought guano to put on cotton,where
the oat crop was killed out. W hilst
cotton must decline to ruinous pric
es, if a fair price is realized, wheat,
corn aud meat will command increas
i cd and increasing prices from the in -
1 creasing demand abroad, as well as
I at home.
Farmers, let me entreat you, for
yours as well as all fanners interest
ami universal prosperin' and inde
pendence, make what you consume
ar home, as far as you can—raise
your graiu, hogs, horses, mules ami
cattle at home—let your cotton crop
be a surplus crop. Then will the
tale set in that brings on its bosom
plenty, j>eaec, credit, honor—aid
then once more man will regard his
obligations to his fellow man ; aud
then may he ex}>eet God to answer
his petitions for success in all his ef
forts. Planter.
llicli I*er (’em. Failure.
It was announced through the
press last week that George W. Adair
of Atlanta had failed, lie gives as
the cause of his failure, high interest
on borrowed money, and shrinkage
in the value of property. He sa\>
that 12 per cent, interest will kill
any business on earth. Will the
planting men of our readers deeply
impress this statement on their minds
and endeavor to make their farms
self-sustaining. The heaviest inter
est you pay is the per cent, on pro
visions, purchased on time, and fer
tilizers obtained in the same way.
The difference you pay for fertilizers
for cash, and on eight or nine months
time is generally from '25 to 30 dol
lars on the ton. Taking the Geor
gia Grange fertilizer, which doubt
less is the best standard for cheap
ness, you pay S4O cash, or $75 on
eight months time. Here there is
•530 interest for eight months, on *4O.
Xow make the calculation for your
self, and see what interest you
are paying. On S4O yon pay *29
for eight months. What is the rate
of interest? Is it 12 per cent.,
which Mr. Adair tells you “will kill
any business on earth ? Is it more
or less ? Farmers make the calculai
tion and see for yourself. The in
terest you pay in purchasing a ton of
the Georgia Grange Fertilizers, is
simply 84-23 per cent.
The same, greater or less percent,
is paid on every other fertilizer yon
purchase. Now gentlemen this
transaction is the same in results to
you, as if you were to borrow *IOO
at the Barnesville Savings Bank Ist.
Jan., and give your note f0r5184.23
payable next Christmas. Now we
put the question fairly to you. can
you get enough from the soil by
your labor to pay back the *IOO,
and the additional sum of *84.23 as
interest. We do not think you can.
Mr. Adair says 12 per cent, will kill
any business, and bis experience and
Ins occupation, will much better able
him to pay 12 per cent, than yours.
This is the interest you pay on your
fertilizers. We are .old that the
average business man of America
clears but3 per cent, per annum.
Now how about the meat that you
should have raised on your planta
tion ? Meat was selling a short
time since at 9£ cash, and 14 on
eight months time. If you will fig
ure in this a little you wll find those
farmers who bought meat at the
above figures, paid at the rate of 51
per cent per annum. In some in
stances a greater per cent is paid, and
in others a less rate is charged. Xow
can you make other tilings and pur
chase your meat at such prices, and
realize more, or could you raise your
meat at a less cost to you ? The
whole catalogue might be gone
through with in this manner. We
would appeal to the planting interest
to consider these figures and these
questions, and study to make their
farms self sustaining.
Since writing the above we learn
that $75 is the cotton option price
of the Grange Fertilizer, and that
the time money price is $57.
One Reason for a Xew Constitu
tion.
Under this head, the Madison
Journal discourses as follows : “In
the new constitution which Georgia
should not fail to make this year, it
should be provided that the great
mass of strictly local and private leg
islation, which consumes two-thirds
of the time and labor of the Legisla
ture, be transferred either to the Su
perior Courts in their ministerial ca
pacity, or to a board of county com
missioners, with authority and pow
er sufficient to dispose of these minor
local affairs The advantage to be
derived by this change alone, would
fully compensate for all the expense
of holding the convention. The
Legislature annually passes several
hundred acts under the head of “Lo
cal Laws,” which ought never to be
considered or known of by that body.
In the volume of “Georgia Laws,
1870,” we find only 130 pages of pub
lic laws (tir nuke which is the true
province of a Legislature), while
there are very nearly three hundred
pages of local and private laws.
Fully twelve pages of the last class
of laws are devoted to prohibiting the
sale of intoxicating liquors m the
neighborhood of churches in various
counties from the chinquapin region
to the piney woods. Twenty or
more churches are thus provided for.
We have no objection to these prohi
bitions. On the contrary we think
them salutary to a community. But
let every county protect its own
churches and academies without en
cumbering the Legislature. What
interest does a Representative from
Chatham county feel fn the passage
or non-pas-age of an act to protect a
given church, or relieve an unfor
tunate bondsman in Dade county ?
We repeat, that quite two-thirds
! of the work of the Legislature, under
the present constitution, is to pass
these petty local and private laws.
i-et all this mass of work be kept at
home aud disposed of as liefore inti-
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mated. Lot a provision of this s*>rt
be incorporated in the now constitu
tion. and so little Work will remanf
fir the Ix'gihlatur. l limt a body, tail
of its present size, holding only half
as many sessions, could dispose of it
with economy and ample satisfaction
to the people. ’
Wentlnil Phillips* Circular
A;’:i|iot the South.
We have read severe and unjust ar
ticles from tiie pen cf F.ngene Law
rence, and other rabid fanatics in the
Radical ranks North, against tho
8 >uth, but we have never read such
a fool tirade us Wondall Phillips
made Monday night in Boston,
under the pretense of a lecture. If
all the malice, hatred, revenge aud
blind fanaticism that has accumu
lated in the bottomest pit of hell
could be gathered and consolidated,
it would not stand comparison with
the bitterness and prejudice of Wen
dull Phillips* heart. lie is either a
supreme fool as to the real status
of the South, and the footings,
knowledge and condition of the
South, or he has more tendency to
lie and misrepresent it; than Judies
Iscariot was treacherous. The ven
om of his nature, had God seen fit to
have embodied it into serpents, would
have set to crawling in the dust a
million adders. Just such men have
fired the Northern heart against tho
S<mt Ii for the last forty years. * u or
der that our readers may know tho
cnaiaeter of the.-e misrepresentations
of the South, we extract some para
graphs from what he said. After
referring to the result of the late
war, he says :
The South went home, an Kile mass, to
plot for gc-ttiug by the ballot what the bul
let had h*st. Our soldiers melt* and into law -
vers, mechanics, merchants, and every
profession and tradeoff busy men. The
South had no such resource. She was
never trained to earn a living. She must
steal it from somebody. Her burglars
tools are the revolver, domineering over
the ballot box, and cabal blinding polities
and Congress. If the democratic party
bad succeeded, it would have owed its sue'
cess to a “solid South, ” the old slave i*o\v
er with anew name. Iler ally was, as of
old, the rotten mass of the great cities.
Under our present working of universal
suffrage the magistracy of cities repre
sents and is chosen by their criminal and
dangerous classes. The journals proclaim
ed last winter that Tilden could have New
York City if Morrissey, Kelly andO Brien
chose, llow’ could they give it to him l
by their control of its slums. If Tilden
had entered the White House, it would
have been the revolvers of Carolina ami
the grog shops of New York that lifted
him there. The white South believes to
day that she is contending for good gov
ernment aud the highest interests of civil
ization. In political matters th<- two sec
tions do not speak the same language. —
Right and justice at the North and at the
South mean diffeient things. The South
clings to her ideas w ith all the energy ot
angry defeat. The North lias abolished
slavery, hut it lasted long enough to make
almost every Northerner a flunky, hem e
the danger that the South will be finally
victorious. The South needs tamino.
Oh! that ltarey were living and Presi
dent of these States! His is the Land to
save us. The South needs the Rarey trea*-
ment—first show that we can crush it, aid
are determined, at any cost, to be obeyed;
then you may “gentle*’ the brute and^ con
ciliate all you please. Until then tin South
sees that all this conciliation is only cow
ardice trying to pass for magnanimity.
What Grant gained at Appomattox b
surrendered by Hayes at Washington—
History repeats itself. "What the South
needs to-day i split- element which Char la
in agne, William the Conqueror, and Crom
well contributed to their times—the heavy
hand aud fearless grasp which holds disn
orderly and struggling forces quiet, until
peace tempts and wins to action the ele
ments which mould our modern civiliza
tion—capital, labor, commerce, education,
hope and equality before the Iw. This
grasp Grant would have fain used, but the
senseless clamor of timid Congressmen
and silly journalists prevented. Ilaycs
proclaims his purpose to forego and sur
render it. When lie took office Appomat
tox faded out of sight, and the South was
victorious in spite of it. Half of what
Grant gained for us at Appomattox Ilaycs
surrendered in Washington on the sth of
March.
The South has no purpose to use such
forces as I just named. Peace and hones
ty on her part, in Johnson’s day, would
have won ample capital to her use. She
defied law, encouraged Ku-kluxand laugh
ed at good faith—the cement of States—
and hence she starves and rots to-day.
She has no business training, no part nor
plot in the spirit of the century. Her only
trade is politics: that is her only tooL —
Bullets failed. .She has neither finance
nor trade, mechanics nor educated class to
work with. Plot aud cable are her only
tools. With these she plans to force from
the North the wealth she cannot earn, lost
the opportunity to attract, and must with
er and rot without.
Tlio legislature of Virginia lias
passed an act for the preservation of
fish abo’C the tide water, and a bill
is pending regulating fish below that
point. The bill already passed pro
hibits the use of nets, seines and
traps for the capture of fish for the
period of six years. From much ob
servation the Richmond Whig ispur
suaded that it would be wise to limit
fishing in the tide water to four days
in the week—say from Saturday, Sun
rise, to Tuesday Sunrise. * This
would give the fish three days to ass
cend and spawn in quiet • and the
seines and nets would catch more
in the four days than they now do in
the seven. This it thinks would be
better than to interdict fishing for
five or ten years, or to be without
fish at all for an indefinite period.
Geo. W. Adair owed 11. B. Plant,
of the Southern Express Company,
j $25,050. the Inmans $30,u0, and
j outside of these from $2,000 $lO,‘1)00.
Ilis creditors are to meet on the 9th
of April, when he will make some
kind of a proposition. The banks
and capitalists are the only sufferers
bv liis failure.