US Copyright Office: ar-1949

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THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESSCOPYRIGHT OFFICE

FIFTY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORTOF THE

REGISTER OF COPYRIGHTSFOR THE FISCAL YEAR

ENDING JUNE 0

VNITED STATESG O V E B N ~ l lMTMG o m a

VASHING'IDN r 1950


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Cop*tBudncP ...................................................................Improvanmtr in theCatalogof CopyrightEntria........................................Cw.wlidationd he CPrd CatalogF i .................................................Canpbncc Section of& RcanarctDivision.........................................................................................................................Amendment of CopyrightLaw: Public Law 84..........................................mppine-- .............................................................W T m t y ......................................................................0 U ~ d i u . g opyrightOua..........................................................&p&h &pod@, 1945-49 ..........................................................h R e c d P t , , e k . 1 8 9 7-1949 ........................................................Reghation by Subjet Matter, 1945-49 ....................................................................................................ummary ofCopyrightBurida,1WPub l i aW........................................................................

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The Copyright Office -REPORT TO THB llBRARUN OP CONOR

C qy igh t BusinessS a result of Public Law 501 whichA ecame effective May 27,1948 andwhich increased copyright fees,there was, during the year under review,a marked rise in the revenues of theCopyright Office. The total revenueswere $834,738.05, or an increase of 71percent over the highest previous year.

As had been anticipated, the number ofregistrations decreased (15 percent), thelargest decline beiig in the categories ofunpublished music and certain miscella-neow cl- Registrations for booksincreased 5 percent and motion pictures 8percent; registrations for periodicals de-creaPed 9 percent and renewals of regis-trations 13 percent. Of the 193,236 itemstransferred to the collection of the Library,48,320 were books and pamphlets.Irnprouemcnts in the Catalog o Cokpright Entries

Volume 2 of the Third Series of theCatdog o CoPpiht Entries, covering thecalendar year 1948, was produced with no&aqe in plan, but with a number ofadded features designed to improve its~ e s s .mportant among thesc addi-tionswas a classified index in the PublishedMusic Catalog, which provides acceps tocurrent pductions by medium-of-per-formance and broad subject headings.Thc inclusion of brief, objectivesummariesfor moat motion pictures furnishes a guideto the content ofh. rief sectionswereadded to the Works of Arc and PeriodicalCatalogs, consisting of listsof books on artand photography, and listsof new periodi-eaIs published for theht time d+ the

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year. Additional indexing featuru wercalso added to the Works of Arc Catalog,and to the Map Catalog.Publicresponseto thesechanges hasbeenencouraging. Each year more people areusing the Catalog and recognizing it asconstituting in effect a national bibliog-raphy in each of the fields represented bycopyright registrations. The Catalog pro-vides information as to a number of t ypaof writings not available in any otherpublication.Producing the C d o g by the l~art co-nomical process, namely by photographingtypewritten cards, nvolves numerow tech-nical difEcultia. Marked progresr wasmade during the year in overcoming theseand in improving the readabiity andgeneral appearance of the C d o g .Codidat ion of the Card Catalog FilesOneof the duties of the CopyrightOffice

is to supply information concerning copy-right claims which have been registutd.Because of the u n d t y of many en-q u i . s to when claims wen recorded itis usually more expeditious to refer to therecord in the card catalog rather than toother sources. The administration of theCopyright Office has been aware of themultiplicity of its files and the advisa-bility of consolidating all entries for agiven clam of material in a single file thusincreasing their prompt accessibility tothe public. As early as 1937 plans weredrawn tffecting a -tion and con-solidation of the reghation aes. Owingto lack of pmonntl and funds, and to aninaeaaipg workload, the consolidationcould only be undedccn on a piecemealbasis.

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2 REPORT OF THE REGISTER OF COPYRIG=, 1949In 1949, however, some thirty people -

wete assigned for the purpose, and theyreviewed and refiled mom than 10,000,000cards. In addition mom than 50,000 newguidec a dwere inserted. The t il lbe an appreciable reduction in the amountof time r e q u i d to answer enquiriar fromthe public.The Complian c~ ection o f the RGftmtDivisionA new service of the Copyright Of3ice to

the public was inaugurated, during fiscal1949, in the es tab l i ie nt and rmcces$uloperation of a Compliance Section as apart of the Reference Division. The pur-pose of thia Section is, through search andcorre~pondena, to advisc owners andagents of owners of copyrights how to per-fect their daima,when they have not doneso, by registering thun in the CopyrightO h , s required by law.This d c e as been pdt ab le , not onlyto the holdera of copyrights, who, havingrcgintmd may thus enforce thcir rights atlaw, but to the Copyright Office and theLibrary of Congrea~as well. In eightmonth, the Copyright Oi3ice nccivtdthrough the Compliana Section few inthe amount of $18,014.00. The Library,on its part, d v e d books and 0 t hmaterials valued at $13,023.00. Fees andmaterials together thus totaled $31,357.00,which is almost three times the expenseincurred by the project. Having p ditself a practical asset to the Library, how-e m , the Section, with additional pason-n 4 prop- to extend its suvice to otherfields, inducting music, maps, motionpictures, periodicals, etc., in which themwould appear to be many published, butaa yet unregiatmd claims o copyright.

Henriette Mcrtz was appo ing aa anAttorney in the Copyright Offia Dmm-ber 6, 1948. Mias Mertz had been incharge of the Foreign Law Department of

the law firm of Brown, Jsclrson, Boettcherand Dienner s ince September 1919, work-ing aimaet urcluaively in the field ofcopyright, patent and trade mark law.Mary B. Davis m t k d h m er positionin the Copyright Office on June 30, 1949,aftcr almost fortyeightyean' service in theLibrary. Mk Davis joined the staffAugua 7,1901. On August 29,1917, h etransferred to the Copyright Oace andsince that time had been engaged incataloging work. MQ Davis was beatknown for the conscientiou attitude shealways maintained toward her duties andthe &cient manner in which rhe per-formed them.

Mary P. Faun- retired f q n theCopyright Offia stafT on Septcmbq 30,1948, a h r iheen ycan~ f ewia.M m m t of Cspynght Law: PublicLaw84

For many yearsEnglish a u t h nd pub-liahera have complained about the "manu-facturing clause" in the copyright law ofthe United States. Recently dollar ~h or t-ages, together with exchange regulationsin force in many countrica, have made itextremely &&cult for mast foreign au thmto register copyrights in thb country. OnJune 3, 1949, Public Law 84, an actdesigned to remedy the situation, becamelaw.

1. The, aw rcmwes the i~npcdimentswhich foreign authors encountved in thepayment of fees by relievingthan of thenecessity of payment. Before the enact-ment of t h i a legislation foreign authonr andpublishurr were required to pay a $4 feeand to deposit in the Copy@lt m c e onecopyof heir book oro k ork. The ewlaw giva than thc option of acnding anadditional copy of the work and a catalogcad n licu of payment of the fee.

TbG provision will be helpful to Am&-cans as well as to fardgncn, because itwiil incmuc the number of foreign booksand other works received in the Copyright


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REPORT OF THE REGISTER OF COP-Office. Thus it wiH make publicly avail-able information, otherwise difficult t6obtain, conccming works published abroadthat have American coppight. The lawmay also, to some degree, promote thegradual attainment of world-wide biblia-graphical ccmmls. National librarieeabroad will doubtless prepare many of tbe .catalog cards produced in response to tbenew act, in cooperation with the UnitedStates Copyright Office. This oint laborshould go a long way toward standardizingAmerican and foreign library techniques.The loss of the $4 fee will reduce tbe

revenues of the Copyright ma, butprobably, on balance, will not d t nloss to the Federal Government. TheLibrary of Congress now buys and cata-logs each year thousands of foreign w a l aMost, if not all, of the foreign works sentto the Copyright Office will be needed bythe Library for its awn collections or forits exchange operatiom. The increme inthe number ofworks deposited, and a can-sequent duction in tbe number whichmust be purchased, the value of the ex mcopy and the saving of the expense dcataloging should mart than offact tbeloss of the fee on the small number ddeposits made prior to the new act.

2. Even more important are the changeswrought by this act in provbions of tbecopyright law regarding books and period-icals in the English language. Prior to tbepassage ofPublic Law 84 a book publishedabroad in the English language had to beregistered in the United States CopyrightOilice within sixty days of publication a dwas required to be manufa& in tbeUnited States within four montbs thereaftu in order to secure United Statercopyright protection. With a few urctptiom no copy manuEacturtd abroad couldbe imported into thc United States whilethe American copyright rubsiisted.The effect was to deprive almost allworks published abroad in the Englishlanguage of American copyright protee

tion. bring he last few yuvr only a'&hundred books and periodicals wert sotegistaed and many 1 wlcn in factmanufactured in this country.

Public Law 84 allows six months frompublication abroad within which t6 regis-ter and five years n which to manufacturein the United States. It a h dds 1,500 tothe number of copies that may be importedunder the provisions of the Copyright Actwithout 1 of copyright.

It k expected that the new law willincrease the number of English booksreprinted in the united States. Thc ex-tendon of the period of five years shouldmake it possible for an Amuican pub-lisher to determine whether a book is asuccess in England and Canada Woredeciding whether to publish it hat. Theright &to import 1,500 copies to test theAmerican market should p t l y d t ndetermining whether the Act will appealtoAmcrican as well as o British and Cana-dian tastes.

Phdipgina RocIamatwThe President of the united Sate8 of

America and the President of theRepublicof the Philippints issued prochmtiom onOctober 21, 1948 which extended copy-right protection in each country to thenationals of the other. The Philippinecopyright law is modeled aftcr the law inthis country and like it requites rcgbtra-tion, and tbat a copyright notice be placedin each work.

C h r#atyOn January 12,1949theReddent d t b eUnited Staas proclaimed the Treaty dFricndahip, Commerce and Navigation

with China. Article IX and the Protocolcontain provinions relative to copyright.The Roclamationd hc M d e n t quotestbe reexvation and undcmadhgs adopt-ed by the United States Senate in advisingand consenting to tbe ratification d betreaty with particular refkncc to tbe


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4 REPORT OF THE REGISTER OF COPYRIGHTS, 1949most-favorad-nation treatment and trans-lation~. Translation rights will be inter-preted in accordance with the provisionsof Article XI of the Treaty as to Commer-cial relations signed at Shanghai, O c t o k8, 1903.

Outstanding Cojyight CastsThe outstanding court decision of the

year, as far as international copyright lawis concerned, is Todamcrica Musica Ltda. v.Radio Corfwation of America, 171 F (2d)369 (C. C. A. 2d, 1948). It was an actionfor infringement of the mechanical repro-duction rights to the Brazilian tuneTico." The plaintiff relied upon theBuenos Aim Convention of 1910, towhich both Brazil and the United Statesare signatories. The court held thatneither that Convention nor the Residen-tial Proclamation relating thereto specifi- 'cally mentioned mechanical reproductionrighe and that section l(e) of the copy-right law required a Presidential Procla-mation for the enforcement of such rightsby the owner of a foreign copyright whois not domiciled in the United States.Thia decision indicates a need for the es-tablishment, by means of PresidentialProclamations, of rcciprocaI relations con-cerning mechanical reproduction rights,with each of the thirteen member repub-lics of the Buenos Aires Convention whichhave previously relied upon it for inter-national protection of those rights.

In the Annual Report for last yearmention was made of the poaclibiiity thatthe Supreme Court would have an oppor-

trtnity to review the holding of the FourthCircuit Court of Appeals that copyrightwas a divisible, rather than an indivisiblebuirdle of rights. In the case of W&h e . Commissioner, 69 S. Ct. 1120 (1949),a majority of the court based its decisionon the tax question and omitted any diicussion of the interesting copyright prob-lem. The minority noted that the court'sdecision, by the plain implication of itadence, rejected the notion of indivisibilityof copyright but clung to the conclusionwhich was derived from that concept.Thus the validity of the concept of theindivisibility of copyright is probably stilluncertain.

In Khan v. LdoFeut, Inc., 78 F. Supp. 754@. C. N. Y., 1948) the court threw doubton the rule that it is not a violation ofcopyright to make and sell phonographm r d s of a copyrighted nondramaticsang, saying: "COTCOTM. Montgomery Wmd6r Co., Inc., et al., 9 Cir., 121 F. (2d) 572,is not the law in this Circuit so far as I amadvised. I hesitate to believe, for in-stance, that the copyright of a book couldbe avoided by reading it over the radioto a public audience, instead of printingit." Cf. Krepborg v. Durante, 21 U. S.P. Q. 557 (S. D. N. Y., 1934); 22 U. S.P.Q.248 (S.D.N.Y., 1934).

Important monopoly decisions dealingwith copyright were handed down inAldm-RochIIc, Inc. cl d. v. American Socictyaf Com,boscrs, Authors, and Publishers et d.,80 F. Supp. 900 (D. C. N. Y., 1948) andM. Wihark d Sons v. Jmrm et al., 80 I?.Supp. 843 (D. C. Minn., 1948).


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REPORT OF THE REGISTER OF COPYRIGHTS, 1949 5NUMBXR OF AILTXCLtS DEPOSITED bVllMG TXE CBCAL Y B W I945 TO 1949, MUwWJl

GROSS RECEIPTS, Em., WDB JULY I , I897

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SinceJuly 1,1897, the date of organizationof the Copyright0 % the total -tiana have ken7,457.07.3, and the total recdpts for fees$10,704,950.95. The 6gura, year by year, appear in the ollowingtable:

Year G r a receipts regirtra- rc@~tra- in re@-tiom

..................horn : trations

1897-98.. $61,099.56 $55,926.50 75,545 ;...........................896-99.. 64,185.65 58,267.00 80,968 5,42318994900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71.072.33 65,206.00 .........1900-1901:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69,525.15 63,687.50 92,351 . . . . . . . . . . . 2,4471901-2.. ................... 68,405.08 64,687.00 92,978 627 ..........1902-3.. ................... 71,533.91 68,874.50 97,979 . 5,001 ....................903-4.. ................... ..............................904-5 ........... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .905-6..

Shbject matter of copyright

Boob:(a) Printed in the United Stata:Boob proper.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Pamphlets, leaAeto, etc. . . . . . . . .Contributionr to newrpapen andperiodicah.. ................

Total. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(b) Rinted abroad in a foreign language.(c) Englirh boole registered for ad in-terim copyright. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Total ......................Periodicals.. ............................W a , mom etc.. ...................Dramatic or dramaticm-musical compcmitiom.Murical compmitiorn. ....................Mapa.. ................................Worksofart,modebordeaigns............Rcproductiom of wr l e o f u t . . ............Drawiqa or plastic worle of a scientific or...................echnical character..Photogmpln.. ..........................Rinta, Lakb nd pictorial illustrations. .....

..............otion picture photoplaya..Motion pictura not photoplaya.. .. ......Total. ............................

1949-

20,50867,8543,815

1948

19,572 .71,5945,963

92,1772,644595

108,3741,0365,72058,0874,6274,349'4691,6031,89135,5771,3302,111

320,590

1947 .

97,1292, H 5683

95,416'100,357'98,779,119,3981,2636,65985,359 .2,855 .5,055609 .

5 3362,94534,5631,2541,914

364,567

1946

94,096 -3,970713

116,680-972

7, OM79,4283,526 .5,4541.064 .3,0142,98231,848 .1,3122,741

354, 8% :

19,80669,8804,410

1945

81,9703,660610

86,240%,578 .1,1295,87772,8242,5583,938596 .2,3752,605 .26,3441,5452,440

305,049

15,35861,1085,504

. 74,674113655

7 5 , M91,5261,1775,18267,1731,7092,3923412,0171,95319,7801,2282,172

272,092

13,92455,8724,878


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6 REPORT OF THE REGISTER OF COPYRIGHTS, 1949

Year

...................906-7.. ...................907-8.. ...................908-9..1909-10 ....................1910-11. .....................................911-12....................912-13..

....................913-14 ..................914-15..

....................915-16 ....................916-171917-18.. ..................1918-19 ........................................919-201920-21.. ..................1921-22. ...................1922-23.. ....................................923-24..1924-25.. ..................1925-26.. ..................1926-27 ....................1927-28 ......................................920-29.. ..................929-30....................930-31....................,931-32..1932-33. .....................................933-34..1934-35.. ....................................935-36......................936-37..................937-38.. ..................938-39..1 9 3 9 4 . . ....................................94041..194142.. ..................194243.. ..................194344.. ...................1944-45.. ..................1945-46. ...................

1946-47....................194748. .:.................194849.. ..................Total.................

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$84,685.0082,387.5083,816.75104,644.95109,913.95116,685.05114,980- 60120,219.25111,922.75112,986.85110,077.40106,352 40113,118.00126,492.2519,516.15138,516.15149,297.00162,544.90166,909.55178,307.20184,727.60195,167.65308,993.80327,629.90309,414.30280,964.90250,995- 30251,591.50259.881.70285,206.90280,541.40298,799.60306,764.40320, 082.90347,430.60351,158.10306,836.70319.466.30338,812.90379,738.00442,626.10487,475.2089,738.05

10,704,950.95

Ctar r d p b

$87,384.3185,042.0387,085.53113,662.83113.661.52120,149.51118,968.26122,636.92115,594.55115,663.42113,808.51109,105.87117,518.96132,371.37141,199.33145,398.26153,923.62167,705.98173,971.95185,038.29191,375.16201,054.49322,135.82336,980.75312,865.41284,719.20254,754.69258,829.53269,348.81293,149.82295,313.24326,326.67330,466.37341,061.35347,125.35376,906.63324,300.99333,270.24367,402.04405,740.58471,119.41525,510.25889,105.92

11,225929.83

Number of""a-tlm

123,829119,742120,131109,074115,198120,931119,495123,154115.193115,967111,438106,728113,003126,562135,280138,633148,946162,694165,848177,635184,000193,914161,959172,792164,642151,735137,424139,047142,031156,962154,424166,248173,135176,997180,647182,232160,789169,269178,848202,144230,215238,121201,190

7,457,073

Ilwrurcrin=-6,125

...........389..........6,1245,733..........3,659..........774....................

6,27513,5598,7183,35310,31313,7483,15411,7876,3659,914..........10,833..............................1,6232,98414,931..........11,8246,8873,8623,6501,585..........8,4809,57923,296

28,0717,906..............................

Deaewri&z..........

4,087..........11,057....................

1,436..........7,961

..........4,5294,710....................................................................................................31,955..........8,lfiO

1%90714,311..............................

2,538...................................................

21,443..................................................

36,931


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REPORT OF THE REGISTER OF COPYRIGITIS. 1949 71.45 1.49.LMIBTIUTION BY SUB MA= V OR TRB mChL YEAN l U mlJS%%

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1946

7. 67930. 5%5. 504

43. 7373. 513

61047. 86048.2891. 1295. 3%

63. 3671. 3043. 094

3171. 7771. 7327. 9735. 384

7741. 25033 .

12, 483202, 144

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1945

6. 96227. 9364. 856

39. 754111679

40, 54445. ,7631. 17?4. 714

57. 8358571. 6211861. 554. 1. 258

. 7. 45!2, 6346151. 12030

11. 337-78. 648

1948

9. 786.5. 797

5. 96351. 5462,545

68354. 77459. 6991. 2636. 128 '

72, 3391. 4563. 938

3091. 6191. 644

10. 6196. 68663299920

15. 796---38. 121

1947

9. 90334. 9404.400

49. 2433. 970

71253. 92558. 3.(0

9 7 26. 45668. 7091..7794. 044

5402, 1471. 8389. 6746. SO6

6661. 418

2113. 180

230. 215

Subject ma- of cowright

Booh:(a) Printed in the United Stata:Boob proper...............Pamphlcla. I etc.......Contributionsto ncwnpapurand p a h l i d s ...........

Total..................(b) Printed abroad in a foreignlanguage ...................(c ) English books regirtaed far adintvim copyright.............

Total....................Paidcab (numbers)...................Lecturu. aumom. addresea............Dramatic or dramati-mIpical c a m p.............................tionrMdcal aanpdtiona ..................Map................................WorlPofart.mod&. adcsignr.........Rcpmductiomof wo& of art ...........DrawingaarplruticwoxbofeIcientXc

ar technicalch.racta ..............:Photograph..........................C o m m d prints and labels...........Printa and pictorial illuatratiom .........Motion picture photoplaya..............Motion pictura not photoplaya ..........RcncwabafcommadalpxintaandlabelsR e n d faU othcrd.sga ............

T d ..........................

1949

10, 25433. 9294. 140

48. 3232. 644

59551. 56254. 163

1. OM5. 159

48. 2102, 3143. 281

2391. 0631. 134

13. 2334. 358667

1. 096..........13. 675

201. 190


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8 REPORTOF TFXEREG- OF JCOPYRIGRIS, 1949. . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . ~ ; . O I ' C O P Y R I Q ~ ' ~ ~ Y a A l919 . ' .

. . . . . .- . . . . . . . ..: - . . .B + tq c a m + d , ~ u l ~ ,1948.;. . . ...... . ...! ...........?....................,.,. $137,369.39, .Gi& redipt l July 1,1948 to June.30,1949. ; ..................................... 889,105.92

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Total tok cmuntcd for. ............................................... 1,026, 47S431Rdund*. .........................................................38.859.51 :........ ....................................... .&rckmwcl,vpaid : 2,'102.00

. . . . . . . . . . . . .&$mid h j q . e d ~ ;,. . ;. ... ................................ 824,584.75. . . . .B aW c e ~ e d w c r t o J u l y l , ~ 9 4 9 : . '. Fea &.qcd in J u y 1949. but not depwitcd until July

t . '. ,. . . , . . . . . . . ..................................................949 .$68,397.00. ...........................~ . ~ ~ e d ~ u a i n ~ . b d a n ~ e 15,280.00. . lhpwit a m t l xhme.. ..:..... ; ....... ; ;: . . 77;252:05. . . , . . ,; ' - , ._ I : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 160,929.05. . . 1,026,'475.31,,: . .". ,. . : &,,ppn'& . . . .. . . . . .kcgia~aiidm di .p &~ nd"bb&; ...... ..... .:............... 13,233 at 6.00 79,398.00. .v t h a for"^^^ warb. ............... : '. .: .; . 130,799 at 4.00 523,196.00

. . . . . . . . . . . .&ghpatiplld fbrpuldiqhd worb. ....... ......................... 208 at 2.00 4)6,00~ t i o n f o r ' U n p u ~ w o r h :.............. .;;:::;.'...';... 43,236.at4.00 172,944:.00. ................................@tmt+ tar unpjb~irhed tkks. 39 at 1.00 39.00

. . . . . . . . .R+pwtOrrmmJI , ...................................... 13,640at2.00' 27,280.00. . . . . . . . . . . . .Pcgimatipn fop r e n d . ......................................

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35 at 1. do 35.00, . I . . . . . .Tcfal numk;of reghtianr ............................... 201,190. . . . .Ftea for rkghtfations;.................., .. .................................. 803,308.00 :~ a a f o r r d h g a = i g m h m t a ....................................... $15,384.30. . . . .~a r . f o rqdcxing trapden ofp r b p r i e k p . ........................... 5,588.75. . . . . . . . .Fccb tor nk i c ko f rw i recorded. ....... '. .......................... 2;t36.00

. . . . . .Fga fordztified documen l .. ....................................... 1,976.00. . . . . .tb'ku tprcbes'made.. ............................................ 6,345.00,. . . . . . . .. . , . * . . . . . . ., . . . . . - 1,430; 05: I ( i . . ,"I ' . . . . . . . . . .. . TQf.'f m ~ e d . ,.... ; .............................................. 834,730.05. . .~. . , . . . . . . . . . .--- . . ~ e s p c ~ & ~ubmitted, ' . . . ., . . , /< ........ ) ..:. ,: . . . . . . . . . . . . -Slur BASS.W ~ N E Ri- -.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Regiskr of.Coppghts ......WASHINOTON,D.C.

Jury 27, 1949


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REPORT OF THE REGISTER OF COP.YRICIITS, 1949 ..9Publications o the Co&ight O f i e

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