District of Columbia, to wit:
  BE IT HEMfEMIBERED, That on the 11th day of February, in the year of our Lord
1831, and of the Independence of the United States of America, the 55th, Patrick
Nisbeti Edgar, of Granville County, North Carolina, has deposited, in this office,
the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following
to wit:
  " The American Race-turf Register, Sportxnan's Herald, and General Stud
Book, containing the pedigrees of the most celebrated Horses, Mares, and Geld-
ings, that have distinguished themselves as racers on the American Turf, from
one qcuarter of a mile race up to four miles and repeat. Also such as have been
kept in the stud, as stallions, and mares for breeding, from the earliest period to
the present time; and from which have descended the most valuable blooded stock
at present in the United States. The whole calculated for the use and information
of amateurs, breeders, and trainers of that most noble and useful animal, the horse.
Compiled from the papers, letters, memorandums, stud books, and newspapers, of
the most celebrated and distinguished sportsmen. Also, from other sources of the
most correct information.  By Patrick Nisbett Edgar, of Granville county, North
Carolina.

                    Ostroque insignis et auro,
              'Stat, sonipes acf7anaferoz spumantia mand it.'    VIRGIL.

  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 conies during the times therein men-
tioned,"' 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 coplies, during the times therein men-
tioned,' 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
  [9sAL.I     seal of my office, the day and year aforesaid.
                                                         EDM. I. LEE,
                                         Clerk of the Dish7 ice of Columbia.