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DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT:

District Clerk's Office.

BE it remembered, that on the fifteenth day of July, A. D. 1830, in
the fifty-fifth year of the Independence of the United States of America,
Gray & Bowen, of the said district, have deposited in this office the title
of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following,
to wit:—“Authorship, a Tale. By A New Englander over-sea.”—
In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled
“An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps,
charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the
times therein mentioned;” and also to an act, entitled “An act supplementary
to an act, entitled, `An act for the encouragement of learning, by
securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors
of such copies, during the times therein mentioned;' and extending
the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical
and other prints.”

JNO. W. DAVIS,

Clerk of the District of Massachusetts.

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