Eastern District of Pennsylvania, to wit:

BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the fourteenth day of May, in the forty-fifth year of the Independence of the United States of America, A. D. 1821, [SEAL.] Abraham Small, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit: "Reports of Cases adjudged in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. By Thomas Sergeant, and William Rawle, jun. Vol. III."

In conformity to the act of the congress of the United States, intituled "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.”

rec. Dec.

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

29 1883

(Appointed March 14th, 1817, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Jasper Yeates, Esq.)

ATTORNEY GENERAL.

AMOS ELLMAKER, Esq.

N. B. The cases being reported in the term at which the opinion of the Court was given, many were decided by the other two Judges, after Judge DUNCAN came on the bench, which had been previously argued by him as counsel.