12345-27た US22032.8 MARVARD COLLEGE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA, To wit: BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the eighth day of January, in the fiftyfourth year of the Independence of the United States of America, A. D. 1830, CAREY & LEA, 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: "The History of Louisiana, particularly of the Cession of that Colony to the "United States of America; with an Introductory Essay on the Constitu"tion and Government of the United States. By Barbé Marbois, Peer of "France, &c. &c. &c. Translated from the French by an American "Citizen." 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 the 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." D. CALDWELL, Clerk of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. GRIGGS & DICKINSON, PRINTERS. DEDICATION. SIR, TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS, THE DAUPHIN. IF you have read, with some interest, the book which I have the honour to dedicate to you, I owe it less to the facts that I have related than to the maxims of justice and virtue which you have remarked in it. A frequent witness of the benevolent actions that render your person so dear to us, I have been anxious to be permitted to publish my book under your happy auspices. I beg your Royal Highness to accept the homage of my profound and respectful devotion. BARBÉ MARBOIS. |