Southern District of New-York, 35. BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the twenty-seventh day of August, in the forty-fourth year of the Independence of the United States of America, William A. Mercein, 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: "ROMAN ANTIQUITIES: or, An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Romans, res pecting their Government, Magistracy, Laws, Judicial Proceedings, Religion, Games, Military and Naval Affairs, Dress, Exercise, Baths, Marriages. Divorces, Funerals, Weights and Measures, Coins, Mathod of Writing, Houses, Garder:s, Agriculture, Carriages, Public Buildings, &c. &c. Designed chiefly to illustrate the Latin Classics, by explaining Words and Phrases, from the Rites and Customs to which they refer. By Alexander Adam, L.L. D. Rector of the High School of Edinburgh. Revised, Corrected, and Illustrated with Notes and Additions, by P. Wilson, L.L. D. Professor of Languages in Columbia College." 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 tnaps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the time 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 author's 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." GILBERT LIVINGSTON THOMPSON, |