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EMteni District of Pennsylvania, to wit: 



BE IT REMEMBERED, that, on tiie nineteenth day of April, in the 

 fifty-fourth year of the Independence of the United States of America, A. D. 

 1830, JuDAH DoBsoN, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the 

 title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words fol- 

 lowing, to wit ;— 

 " An Authentic Historical Memoir of the Schuylkill Fishing Company, 

 of the State in Schuylkill. From its establishment on that romantic 

 stream, near Philadelphia,' in the year 1732, to the present time. By 

 a Member. 

 ' If you look to its antiquity, it is most ancient— 

 If to its dignity, it is most honorable — 

 If to its jurisdiction, it is most e.xtensive.' " 

 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 encouargement 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." 



D. CALDWELL, 

 Clerk of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. 



