Southern District of New-York, ss.
Be it remembered, That on the twenty-seventh day of April, in the
forty-sixth year of the Independence of the United States of America,
JONATHAN SEYMOUR, 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:
“A New-England Tale; or, Sketches of New-England Character and
Manners.
But how the subject theme may gang,
Let time and chance determine;
Perhaps it may turn out a sang,
Perhaps turn out a sermon.
Burns.”
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.
