Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 1, 1873

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Munich, August 20, 1868.

My Lord: With reference to your lordship’s circular dispatch of the 11th instant, I have the honor to transmit herewith a copy and a translation of a note of the 17th instant, which I received yesterday evening from Mr. de Daxenberger, in Prince Hohenlohe’s absence, in answer to my inquiries relative to the state of the Bavarian law with iegard to the nationality of children born of alien parents within the Bavarian dominions.

From this note your lordship will perceive that according to Bavarian law the children of aliens, even when born in Bavaria, do not acquire the Bavarian citizenship, but are considered and treated as aliens, until they shall have been naturalized in the same manner as all emigrants; but that, on the other hand, the children of immigrants begotten after the naturalization of their parents are considered as Bavarian subjects.

I have, &c.,

HENRY F. HOWARD.

The Lord Stanley, M. P., &c., &c., &c.

[Translation.]

The undersigned, in answer to the note of Sir H. F. Howard, &c., &c., &c., of the 14th instant, has the honor to reply that according to Bavarian law the children of aliens, being persons not belonging to the Bavarian state, even when begotten and born in Bavaria, do not acquire the Bavarian citizenship, but are considered and treated as aliens until they shall have been naturalized in the same manner as all immigrants.

On the other hand, the children of immigrants begotten after the naturalization of their parents are considered as Bavarian subjects.

The undersigned, &c.,

v. DAXENBERGER.

Sir H. F. Howard, K. C. B., &c., &c., &c.