HARVARD COLLEGE

SEP 22 1927

LIBRARY

Professor Chester 4. Groenough,

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, TO WIT:

SEAL.

Be it remembered, That on the twenty-ninth day of January, in ********* the year 0f our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, and of the Independence of the United States of America, the fifty-second, William B. RANDOLPH, of the said district, has deposited in the office of the Clerk of the District Court for the District of Columbia, the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit:

"The Virginia Housewife; or, Methodical Cook. By Mrs. Mary Randolph. Method is the soul of management."

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."

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the public seal of my office, the day and year aforesaid. EDM. I. LEE, Clerk of the District Court for the District of Columbia.