EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA, TO WIT:
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the first day of July, in the forty-sixth year ««the
Independence of the United States of America, A. D. 1821, WILLIAM P. C. BARTON, of
the said District, hath deposited in this office the title of a Book, the nght whereof he claims
as Author in the words following, to wit: “ A Flora of North A™e" ca- *U£ st™1teJ rE
ed figures, drawn from Nature. By William P. C. Barton, M. D. U. S. N. Professor of
Botany in the University of Pennsylvania. Volume 1.” 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 supplem^tary
to an Act, entitled * An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies ot 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.^ r AT T>wpT T^ Clerk o f the Eastern District o f Pennsylvania,
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