University of Virginia Library

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Printer's Imprint

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW-YORK, SS.

Be it remembered, that on the twenty-eighth day of February,
A. D. 1826, in the fiftieth year of the Independence of the United
States of America, G. and C. Carvill 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 Merry Tales of the Three Wise Men of Gotham.
Edited by the Author of John Bull in America.

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 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.”

JAMES DILL,

Clerk of the Southern District of New-York.