Handwritten Certificate of Copyright for Geographical Description of Wisconsin, p. 2

Territory of Wisconsin
Third Judicial District
Milwaukee County District Court

[to all?-illegible]

Be it [remembered?] that on the second day of January A.D. 1844 in the sixty eighth year of the Independence of the United States of America Increase A. Lapham of the said district hath deposited in this office the title of a book the night he claims as author in the words following suit:

"A Geographic and Topographical Description of Wisconsin with brief sketches of its history, geology, mineralogy, natural history, population, soil, productions, government, and antiquities &c. &c. By I.A. Lapham."

In conformity to the art of the congress of the United States entitled "An Act for the encouragement of learning by securing its copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the time therein mentioned"

Lynn Hawly Leluk
of the District Court for Milwaukee County in the third judicial District of the Territory of Wisconsin.