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MEMORIAL

TO THE

CONGRESS OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES.

                                                            Mobile, December 14, 1863.

      WM. J. HARDEE, of Georgia, the author, and S. H. GOETZEL, of,
Alabama, the publisher, of a work entitled "Hardee's Rifle and
Infantry tactics," which has been revised and improved by the author
at the commencement of the present war; humbly memorialize the
Congress of the Confederate States of America, to grant a special
copy-right therefor, and assign as reasons the following:
      In 1855, the work was completed for publication by your memo-
rialist, Hardee, and the contract for printing, lithographing and pub-
lishing was made with Lippincott, Grambo & Co., of Philadelphia,
the Congress of the United States making an appropriation to assist
in its publication, on condition that the publishers should furnish the
Government of the United States eighteen thousand copies, at one
dollar per copy. This condition was assented to and complied with.
The author's contract with the publishers was that they should pay
him -------- cents per copy for each copy sold over and above the
Government purchase, which was afterwards increased to --------
cents per copy.
      This contract was complied with up to the formation of this Govern-
ment, and the said Hardee regularly received under it, his share of
the proceeds of sales by the publishers.
      The publishers neglected to take out a copy-right for the work, as-
signing as reasons, therefor, that the work was a very expensive one
to publish, principally on account of the numerous lithographic plates
it contained; that the sales would necessarily be small and limited,
and that no one would undertake to re-publish it from any profits that
could be realized from it. In time of peace, as then existed, these
reasons were patent and satisfactory; and, until the war, no one at-
tempted to re-publish it.
      During the war the work has been published in the United States
in immense quantities, and the publishers there have realized large
sums from the sale of it, in which the author, as a matter of course,