Front matter
Reading edition
The Capitol at Washington.
Designed and Published by W. Birch, Enamel Painter, Springland near Bristol, Pennsylv.a 1808.
DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA, TO WIT:
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the twentieth day of January, in the thirty-third year of the Independence of the United States of America, A. D. 1809, William Birch of the said District, hath deposited in this Office, the Title of a Book, the Right whereof he claims as Author, in the words following, to wit:
“The Country Seats of the United States of North America, with some Scenes connected with them.”
In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, intituled, “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 Time therein mentioned,” and extending the Benefits thereof to the Arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other Prints.
D. CALDWELL, Clerk of the District of Pennsylvania.