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Eastern District of Pennsylvania, to wit: 
P Bz 1T REMEMBERED, that on the twenty-seventh day of 
em May, in the fifty-third year of the independence of the 
« “, United States of America, A. D. 1829, Silas Dinsmoor, of 
iS the said district, has deposited in this office the title of a 
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: oO Book, the right whereof he claims as Proprietor, in the 
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‘¢ The Pyramidal Bee-hive: a plain and natural method of preserving 
and perpetuating the population of bees, and of receiving annually, 
from each family, a box full of wax and pure honey, without dis-. 
turbing the bees, or destroying the couvain; and the art of restoring 
hives, (whose population has perished,) by hatching the eggs, re- 
maining in the cells, by the heat of the sun. Also, the art of con- 
verting honey into white, modorous sugar, and of making hydro« 
mel, sirups, &c. A_work useful to farmers. By. P. Ducouédic, 
President du Canton du Maure, Department D’Ille-et-Vilain—Lz- 
titiam, laudem, copiam, hinc sperate coloni.—Abridged, and trans- 
lated from the French, by Silas Dinsmoor.”’ 
In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, inti- 
tuled, “ 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.” 
D. CALDWELL, 
Clerk of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. 
