Eastern District of Louisiana, ss.
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the seventh day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, and of the independence of the United States the fifty-first FRANCOIS-XAVIER MARTIN, of the said district, hath deposited in the Clerk's office for the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Louisiana, the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor and publisher, to wit:
"The History of Louisiana, from the earliest period. Xavier-Martin.
By François-
Hac igitur formam crescendo mutat, et olim
Immensi caput orbis erit. Sic dicere vates.
Ovid. Metam. xv. 434 & 435."
In conformity to an act of 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 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 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." W. F. LEA, DPT. CLERK, U. S. DIST. COURT, Eastern District of Louisiana.