Eastern District of Pennsylvania, to wit:
L.S. BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the twenty-eighth day
of December, in the fifty-fifth year of the Independence
of the United States of America, A. D. 1830, Henry
H. Porter, 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, to wit:
Meredith; or the Mystery of the Meschianza. A Tale of the
American Revolution. By the Author of “The Betrothed of
Wyoming.”
When Freedom roused her patriot band
To drive oppression from the land;
Her foes were strong, their rage was high,
And proud their warlike chivalry.
Oh! then was tried the souls of men,
And many a heart was broken then!
Scrap Book.
In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States,
intituled, “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 the 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 etehing historical andother prints.”
D. CALDWELL,
Clerk of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
