DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, to wit :
District Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the eighteenth day of March, A. D. 1823, in the forty-seventh year of the Independence of the United States of America, CHARLES EWER and TIMOTHY BEDLINGTON, of the said District, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as Proprietors, in the words following, to wit :- Lessons in Elocution; or a Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse, for the improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking. By WILLIAM Scott. To which are prefixed, Elements of Gesture ; illustrated by four plates, and rules for expressing with propriety the various passions of the mind. Also, an Appendix, containing lessons on a new plan. To which is added, an abridgment of Walker's Rules for the pronunciation of Greek and Latin proper names, with a list of classical names which occur in the work.” 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 District