At the first conference last year, the representatives of the Association of Publishers, in a spirit of conciliation, agreed with the representatives of the Typographical Union that they would not oppose the requirement of an affidavit. As a member of that Association of Publishers. I shall not now oppose the affidavit section as a whole, which requires me to swear five hundred times a year that I have done something, failure to do which would have invalidated many thousands of dollars' worth of copyright property. But I do object earnestly and emphatically to the final paragraph of section 13 (lines 21-25, p. 9), requiring the statement in the affidavit of the particular establishment in which the work has been done. This fact is wholly irrelevant to the purpose of the affidavit and has no bearing on the requirements of the copyright law. It is purely a private business matter. In case the affidavit is challenged (as it would be in only an infinitesimal proportion of registrations) and proof of domestic manufacture is required in any action, of course the establishment would be readily shown. Copyright proprietors should not be required to disclose it otherwise, satisfying the curiosity of business rivals and others. It seems also an unnecessary insult to the publishers to provide special penalties for false affidavits. Will not the ordinary penalties for the crime of perjury be sufficient to cover all cases where publishers, in addition to jeopardizing their property rights by violating the provision for domestic manufacture, swear falsely in the premises? I believe that Mr. Sullivan, in behalf of the Typographical Union, stated at the last conference that the union was not disposed to insist on the specification of the establishment in the affidavit if it should appear that this fact was unnecessary and irrelevant to the purpose of the affidavit. I hope that the union will make no opposition to the elimination of this provision, which is obnoxious to the publishers. By so doing they will at least minimize the opposition of the publishers to the affidavit provision as a whole. There are very many publishers throughout the country who are not members of the association referred to, and will not be governed by the agreement made at the conference. The date of publication, if given in the affidavit, might serve for convenience as furnishing an essential fact to be a part of the record covered by the Librarian's certificate.