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June 22, 2005: "New Jersey Outbids Rivals for its Birth Records"
"Outbidding stiff competition, the state government spent $656,760 yesterday to obtain 11 rare documents, maps and books from the 17th and 18th centuries, material that the state's director of archives described as "the Dead Sea Scrolls of the settlement of New Jersey."
