DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, _to wit_:
_District Clerk’s Office._
Be it remembered, that on the thirtieth day of November, A. D. 1827,
in the fifty second year of the Independence of the United States of
America, _N. P. Willis_, of the said district, has deposited in this
office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in
the words following, _to wit_: ‘Sketches. By N. P. Willis.
“---- If I remember,
You loved such stories once, thinking they brought
Man to a fine and true humanity.”
Barry Cornwall.’
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.’