District of New-Jersey, ss.
Be it remembered, that on the sixth day of May, in the fortieth year of the Independence of the United States of America, Ava Neal, 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:
"A Dissertation on the Marriage of a Man with his Sister in Law. By John H. Livingston, D.D. S.T.P. Ye shall do my Judgments, and keep my Ordinances, to walk therein: I am the Lord your God.. ..Levit. xviii. 5."
In Conformity to an 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 the act, entitled, "An act supplementary to the 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."
ROBERT BOGGS,
Clerk of the District of New-Jersey.