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DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, to wit:
District Cleark's Office.

Be it remembered, that on the twenty-ninth day of May,
A. D. 1829, in the fifty-third year of the Independence of the
United States of America, Putnam and Hunt, 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:

“Sketches of American Character, by Mrs. Sarah J. Halk,
Author of Northwood, &c.

`The genius of my country shall arise,
A cedar towering o'er the wilderness—
Wafting its native incense through the skies.'

Byron.”

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.