EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA, TO WIT : 

 RE IT REMEMBERED, That on the thirty-first clay of December, in the forty-eighth 

 year of the Independence of the United States of America, A. D. 1823, WILLIAM P. C. BAR- 

 TON, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a Hook, the right whereof 

 he claims as Author in the words following, to wit : " A Flora of North America. Illustrated 

 by coloured figures, drawn from Nature. By William P. C. Barton, M. D. U. S. N. Professor 

 of Botany in the University of Pennsylvania. Volume III." In conformity to the Act of the 

 Congress of the United States, intituled, " An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by se- 

 curing 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 supplemen- 

 tary 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." 



D. CALDWELL, Clerk of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. 



