DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT:
District Clerk's Office.
BE it remembered, that on the twelfth day of November, A. D. 1825, and
in the fiftieth year of the Independence of the United States of America, Cummings,
Hilliard, & Co. 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:
“The Rebels, or Boston before the Revolution. By the author of Hobomok.
Here the free spirit of mankind at length
Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place
A limit to the giant's unchained strength,
Or curb his swiftness in the forward race.
Bryant.”
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.”
JOHN W. DAVIS,
Clerk of the District of Massachusetts.
