University of Virginia Library

Southern District of New-York, ss.

BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the first day of August, in the forty-eighth
year of the Independence of the United States of America, Charles
Wiley, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book,
the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit:

“The Pilot; a Tale of the Sea. By the Author of the Pioneers, &c. &c.
List! ye Landsmen, all to me. In two volumes.”

In conformity to the act of 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 time
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.”

JAMES DILL,
Clerk of the Southern District of New-York.