BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the ninth day of October, in the thirty-eighth
year of the independence of the United States of America, A. D. 1813,
William Barton of the said district, hath deposited in this office the
Title of a book, the right whereof he claims as Author, in the words
following, to wit:
“Memoirs of the Life of David Rittenhouse, L. L. D. F.R.S, late
President of the American Philosophical Society, &c. Interspersed with
various notices of many distinguished men: with an Appendix,
containing sundry philosophical and other papers, most of which have
not hitherto been published. By William Barton, M. A. Counsellor at
Law; Member of the American Philosophical Society, the Mass. Hist.
Society, and the Royal Economical Society of Valencia, in Spain.”
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 etching historical and other prints.”
D. CALDWELL,
Clerk of the District of Pennsylvania.
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