Southern District of New-York, ss.
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the twenty-seventh day of April, In the forty-sixth year of the Independence of the United States of America, JONATHAN SEYMOUR, of the said District, had deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit:
"A New-England Tale; or, Sketches of New-England Character and Manners.
But how the subject theme may gang,
Let time and chance determine;
Perhaps it may turn out a sang.
Perhaps turn out a sermon.
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 time 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.
