DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, to wit:
L. S.
Be it remembered, That on the Eighteenth day of May, in the forty-third year of the independence of the United States of America, Jacob Gideon, junior, of the said district, hath deposited in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words and figures following, to wit:
"The Federalist, on the New Constitution, written in the year 1788, by Mr. Hamilton, Mr. Madison, and Mr. Jay: with an appendix, containing the Letters of Pacificus and Helvidius, on the Proclamation of Neutrality of 1793; also the original Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution of the United States, with the amendments made thereto. A new edition. The numbers written by Mr. Madison corrected by himself."
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."
G. Deneale,
Clerk of the District of Columbia.
