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DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT:
District Clerk's Office.

Be it remembered, that on the sixteenth day of October, A. D. 1829, in the fifty-fourth year of the Independence of the United States of America, Nathaniel Bowditch, 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: "Mécanique Céleste. By the Marquis De La Place, Peer of France; Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor; Member of the French Academy, of the Academy of Sciences of Paris, of the Board of Longitude of France, of the Royal Societies of London and Göttingen, of the Academies of Sciences of Russia, Denmark, Sweden, Prussia, Holland, and Italy; Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; etc. Translated, with a Commentary, by Nathaniel Bowditch, LL. D., Fellow of the Royal Societies of London, Edinburgh, and Dublin; of the Philosophical Society held at Philadelphia; of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; etc." 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."

JNO. W. DAVIS, Clerk of the District of Massachusetts.