DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, To wit:
Be it remembered. That on this twenty first day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty one, and of the independence of the United States of America the forty sixth. Tobias Watkins, 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. "Memoir upon the Negotiations between Spain and the United States of America, which led to the Treaty of 1819. With a Statistical notice of that country. Accompanied with an Appendix, containing important Documents for the better illustration of the subject. By D. Luis De Onis, late Minister Plenipotentiary near that Republick, and present Embassador from H. M. at the Court of Naples. Madrid, 1820 From the press of D M De Burgos. Translated from the Spanish, with Notes, by Tobias Watkins." 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 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."
[L. S] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the publick seal of my office, the day and year aforesaid.
EDM. I. LEE, Clk. of the Dist. Court for the Dist. of Col.
