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 DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT: District Clerk's Office.

Be it remembered that on the thirteenth day of December, A. D. 1827, in the fifty-second year of the Independence of the United States of America,, of the 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:

"An Introduction to Linear Drawing; translated from the French of M. Francœur; with alterations and additions to adapt it to the use of schools in the United States; to which are added the Elements of Linear Perspective, and Questions on the whole. By William B. Fowle, Instructer of Monitorial School, Boston."

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;" and also to an act entitled, "An act supplementary to an act, entitled, as 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."

JOHN W. DAVIS, Clerk of the District of Massachusetts.