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  "title_number": "33",
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  "heading": "Ballots",
  "text": "The ballots to be used shall be in substantially the following form:\n\nShall _______________________________ (name the municipalities) be consolidated and become one municipality, to be known as ______________________________________________?\n\n(Name of the proposed new municipality).\n\nFor consolidation __________________\n\n( )\n\nAgainst consolidation _______________\n\n( )\n\nEach of the municipalities involved shall bear the expense of its own election.",
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      "name": "CITIES, TOWNS, AND VILLAGES"
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      "number": "1",
      "name": "CREATION, ORGANIZATION, ALTERATION, AND DISSOLUTION"
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      "name": "TERRITORIAL CHANGES IN PARISHES AND MUNICIPALITIES"
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