Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United
States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President,
December 1, 1873
[Hamburg]
[undated.]
Aliens can become naturalized after six months’ residence on
payment of a small fee. The law of Hamburg is said to
recognize a double allegiance in persons thus, naturalized,
and does not require any renunciation of native
allegiance.1