DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT:
District Clerk's Office.
Be it remembered, that on the twenty-third day of January, A. D.
1829, and in the fifty-third year of the Independence of the United
States of America, William Hilliard, of the said district, has deposited in
this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor,
in the words following, viz.
“George Mason, the Young Backwoodsman; or `Don't give up
the Ship.' A Story of the Mississippi. By the Author of `Francis
Berrian.”'
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 encouragment
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.
CAMBRIDGE:
HILLIARD, METCALF, AND CO.
