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<LEGEND>
     This schedule contains summary financial information extracted from
     consolidated balance sheets, and consolidated statements of income of the
     Company in the Company Form 10-QSB and is qualified in its entirety by
     reference to such financial statements.
</LEGEND>
       
                             
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