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district of Massachusetts, t® wit- . 
District Cleric Office? 
BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the twenty-fourth day of 
October, A. D. 1827, in the fifty-second year of the independ¬ 
ence of the United Statesof America, WILLIAM LAY and 
GYRUS HUSSEY, of the said District, have deposited i& 
this Office, the title of a Book, the Right whereof they claim 
as Proprietors, in the words following, to wit • 
<e A Narrative of the mutiny on board the Ship Globe, of 
Nantucket, in the Pacific Ocean, Jan. |824 ? and a Journal of a 
residence of two years on the Mulgrave Islands, with observa¬ 
tions on the manners and customs of the inhabitants, By Wip 
liam Lay, of Saybrook, Conn, and Cyrus M, Hussey, of Nan® 
tucket, the only Survivors from the Massacre of the Ship*® 
Company, by the Natives.” 
In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United State® 
entitled an act for the encouragement of learnii g, by secur¬ 
ing the Copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and 
Proprietors of such Copies during the times therein mention, 
ed :** and also to an 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 Author® 
and Proprietors of such copies, during the times therein men¬ 
tioned ; and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of De¬ 
signing, Engraving, and Etching Historical and other Prints/* 
JNO. W. DAVIS, 
Clerk of the District of Mazmchmem . 
Green , Printer a 
