DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, SS.

District Clerk's Office.

Be it remembered, that on the fifteenth day of August, A. D. 1826, and in the fifty-first year of the Independence of the United States of America, Cummings, Hilliard and Company 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:

'A Discourse in Commemoration of the Lives and Services of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, delivered in Faneuil Hall, Boston, August 2, 1826. By Daniel Webster.'

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 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 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.' JNO. W. DAVIS,

Clerk of the District of Massachusetts.

William L. Lewis, Printer, Congress street.

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City of Boston.

In Common Council, Aug. 7, 1826.

Resolved, That the thanks of the Mayor, Aldermen and Common Council, be presented to DANIEL WEBSTER, Esq. for the eloquent Discourse delivered by him in Faneuil Hall by request of the City Council, in memory of the late venerable JOHN ADAMS and THOMAS JEFFERSON; and that he be informed it is the wish of the City Council, that the same should be published. Resolved, That seven thousand copies of the said Discourse be printed or otherwise procured, for the use of the citizens.

Resolved, That Messrs Curtis, Waters and Lodge, with such as the board of Aldermen may join, be a Committee to carry the foregoing resolves into effect.

Sent up for concurrence.

JOHN R. ADAN, President.

In the Board of Aldermen, Aug. 7, 1826.

Read and concurred, and Aldermen Bellows and Marshall are joined.

JOSIAH QUINCY, Mayor.