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Sample registrations, various states (1790-1800)

Source: Library of Congress, Rare Books and Special Collections: Maine, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts records; National Archives, Atlanta Facility: North Carolina records; National Archives, Northeast Facility: Vermont records.

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Sample registrations, various states (1790-1800), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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DISTRICT OF MAINE - TO WIT:

                                                                                                DISTRICT CLERK'S OFFICE

      BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the ninth day of April A.D. 1792
and in the sixteenth year of the Independence of the United States of America,
John Gardiner of said District, has deposited in this office, the title of a
book, the right whereof he claims as author in the words following, to wit:

"The Speech of John Gardiner Esquire, delivered in the House of Representatives
on Thursday the 26th of January 1792; on the Subject of the Report of the Committee
appointed to consider the Expediency of repealing the Law against Theatrical Exhi-
bitions, within this Commonwealth."


      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."

                                                                                                H. Sewall, Clerk of the District of Maine.
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DISTRICT OF MAINE - TO WIT:

                                                                                                DISTRICT CLERK'S OFFICE

      BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the twenty-fifth day of October A.D. 1792
and in the seventeenth year of the Independence of the United States of America,
Samuel Freeman of said District, has deposited in this office, the title of a
book, the right whereof he claims as author in the words following, to wit:

"The Probate Auxiliary: or a Director & Assistant to Probate Courts, Executors,
Administrators & Guardians. Being the Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
respecting the estates of Testators, Intestates & Wards - Carefully collected: Together
with a comprehensive alphabetical index to the same. To which are added a variety of
Forms for the use of Probate Courts, & such persons as may have business to transact therein."


      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."

                                                                                                H. Sewall, Clerk of the District of Maine.

    

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