second year of the Independence of the United States of America, A. V.
1828, TIMOTHY PITKIN, 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 :

“ A Political and Civil History of the United States of America, from the year 1763
to the close of the administration of President Washington, in March, 1797: including
a summary view of the Political and Civil state of the North American Colonies, prior
to that period. By TIMOTHY Pitkin. In two volumes.”

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 the act entitled “ An act supplementary to an act entitled ' An act for the en-
couragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the au-
thors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned,' and extend-
ing the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and
other priņts.”

CHĂS. A. INGERSOLL,
Clerk of the District of Connecticut.

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