Mr. Justice McLEAN delivered the opinion of the court.
This is a writ of error to the Circuit Court for the district of Rhode Island.
An action was brought by the plaintiff in the Circuit Court, alleging that he was the author of a topographical map of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, surveyed trigonometrically by himself, the copyright of which he secured under the act of Congress of the 3d April, 1831, entitled "An act to amend the several...
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