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CENTRAL BRIDGE. 463 observable after the team had passed on. The test was very satisfactory in every particular, and on the report of the en- gineer, the committee accepted the bridge as having fulfilled all that the contract called for. The bridge was publicly accepted by the town and dedicated to public uses in Decem- ber, 1894, by appropriate services in the town hall. Addresses appropriate to the occasion were made by R. D. Horton, chairman of Building Committee ; William T. Lewis, presi- dent of the Town Council ; Rev. John W. Colwell, and an historic address by Thomas W. Bicknell.