_DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS--To wit_:

_District Clerk's Office_.


Be it remembered, that on the 2d day of November, A.D. 1824, in the
forty-ninth year of the independence of the United States of America, E.G.
House, of the said district, has deposited in this office the title of a
book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to
wit--Memoirs of General Lafayette, with an account of his visit to America;
and of his reception by the people, of the United States, from his arrival,
Aug. 15. to the celebration at Yorktown, Oct 19, 1824.

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 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."

JNO. W. DAVIS, _Clerk of the Dist. of Mass_.