[Copy of the Copyright to the first American edition of this work, published at Georgetown, D. C, in 1823, by Joseph Milligan, and printed by J. C. Dunn.]
District of Columbia, to wit:
BE it remembered, that on the twentieth day of March, in the forty-seventh year of the Independence of the United States of America, Joseph Milligan, 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 :
"Meditations for every day in the year, collected from different spiritual writers. First written in Latin by N. B., translated into English by E. M., in the year 1669, and now revised by Rev. R. Baxter. Every day will I bless thee : and I will praise thy name forever; yea. forever and ever. — [Ps. cxlv. 2.]"
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.
EDMUND I. LEE,
Clerk of the District of Columbia.'
