The Genius of Masonry: Or a Defence of the Order, Containing Some Remarks on the Origin and History; The Uses and Abuses of the Science, With Some Notices of Other Secret Societies in the United States, in Three Lectures

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Be it remembered, That on the 22d day of October, 1828, and in the fifty-third year of the Independence of the United Sates of America, Samuel L. Knapp, of said District, deposited in this Office, the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the following words, viz: "The Genius of Masonry, or a Defence of the Order, containing some remarks on the origin and history; the Uses and Abuses of the Science, with some notices of other Secret Societies in the United States, in three Lectures, by Samuel L. Knapp."

Lo this, we have searched it, so it is, hear it,
And know thou it, for thy good -Job v. "7."

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