List of Papers.

• No. 496. Letter from the President to the principal officer in each of the Executive Departments, requiring his opinion in writing upon a series of questions, relating to allegiance and expatriation, which were inclosed in the letter
• No. 497. The Secretary of State to the President, answer to No. 496
• No. 498. The Secretary of the Treasury to the President, answer to No. 496
• No. 499. The Secretary of War to the President, answer to No. 496
• No. 500. The Secretary of the Navy to the President, answer to No. 496
• No. 501. The Postmaster-General to the President, answer to No. 496
• No. 502. The Attorney-General to the President, answer to No. 496
• No. 503. The Secretary of the Interior to the President, answer to No. 496
• No. 504. Mr. Fish to Mr. Washburne, Mr. Bancroft, and Mr. Marsh, (circular,) August 11, 1873, asking information respecting Americans residing in Europe
• No. 505. Mr. Bancroft to Mr. Fish, reply to No. 504
• No. 506. Mr. Marsh to Mr. Fish, reply to No. 504
• No. 507. Mr. Washburne to Mr. Fish, reply to No. 504
• No. 508. Report of a commission appointed by the Queen of Great Britain for inquiring into the laws of naturalization and allegiance
• Memorandum by Baron Bramwell and Mr. Mountague Bernard, two of the commissioners
• Memorandum by Mr. Vernon Harcourt, one of the commissioners
• APPENDIX No. I.—Naturalization and Allegiance. Memorandum by Mr. Abbott (Lord Tenderden.)
• [N. B.—The Italics in this list indicate the papers added by order of the Secretary of State to Lord Tenderden’s list.]
• Part I.—British and Colonial Laws.
  • Act of May 12, 1870, (now in force)
  • Colonial naturalization—Antigua, Grenada, St. Vincent
    • Bahamas
    • Barbadoes, St. Vincent, St. Lucia, Grenada
    • Bermuda
    • British Columbia
    • British Guiana
    • Canada
    • Cape of Good Hope
    • Honduras
    • Hong Kong
    • Jamacia
    • Natal
    • New Burnswick
    • Newfoundland
    • New South Wales
    • New Zealand
    • Nova Scotia
    • Prince Edward’s Island
    • Queensland
    • St. Kitt’s and Anguila
    • Sierra Leona
    • South Australia
    • Tasmania
    • Trinidad
    • Turk’s Island and Caicos Island
    • Victoria
    • Western Australia
  • Part II.—Laws of the United States.
    • A.—Report of the Examiner of Claims upon the provisions of the statutes and Constitution respecting naturalization and expatriation
    • B.—Opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States in the “Slaughter-House cases,” December term, 1872
    • C.—Extract from the analytical index to the Treaties and Conventions of the United States with other Powers”
    • D.—Extract from the regulations for the consular service
  • Part III.—Laws of other countries.
    • France—Nationality
      • Loss of civil rights
      • Decree of 1811—Naturalization of Frenchmen abroad
      • Law of 1851—Nationality of the sons born in Africa of aliens themselves born in France
      • Conscription of Frenchmen naturalized abroad—Count Walewski’s note to the United states chargé d’affraires in 1859
      • Conscription—Zeiter’s case—Report by M. Treitt
      • Naturalization of aliens in France
      • Naturalization laws of 1849, 1867
      • Debate on army bill, 1867
      • Statistics—Naturalization in France, 1851 to 1861
    • Prussia—Naturalization of aliens
      • Expatriation
    • Austria—Naturalization and expatriation
    • Bavaria—Wurtemburg—Netherlands
    • Russia—Naturalization law, 1864
    • Hamburg—Belgium—Switzerland
    • Italy—Codes of Sardinia and Two Sicilies
      • Conscription law, 1855
      • Revised Italian code; 1866
    • Spain—Constitution of 1845; decree of 1852
  • Part IV.—Correspondence between the United States and Great Britain Britain.
  • [Not reprinted in this collection.]
  • Part V.—Correspondence between the United States and other countries.
    • Prussia—Mr. Wheaton's doctrine, 1840
      • Mr. Barnard's doctrine, 1851
      • Mr. Everett's doctrine, 1853
      • Baron Manteuffel’s explanation of Prussian practice and law of 1843.
      • Mr. Cass's doctrine, 1858
      • Correspondence interrupted by civil war
      • Correspondence resumed, 1865. Count Bismarck’s suggestions for an arrangement by a convention
      • Further proposal of Prussian government
      • Austro-Prussian war. Renewed negotiations
      • Substance of treaty of February 22, 1868
    • German States—Hamburg expatriation law—Correspondence with Bremen; &c
    • Austria—Case of Martin Koszta
      • Case of Martin Koszta—Mr. Marcy's assertion of claim to protection acquired by domicile
      • Case of Simon Tousig—Such claim forfeited by return to native country
    • Bavaria—Case of Amthor—Renunciation of naturalization
    • France—Mr. Webster's doctrine, 1852
      • Alibert’s case—French conscription
      • Zeiter’s case—French conscription
      • Recent conscription cases, 1866
    • Spain—Thrasher’s case—Domicile—Exercise of foreign jurisdiction over Americans in cases of treason
      • Case of Liaño—Mr. Webster's doctrine, 1852
    • Denmark—Boie Smidt—Conscription case.
    • Russia—Law as to renouncing naturalization — Russians naturalized abroad expelled from Russia
    • Costa Rica—Protection refused to persons fraudulently naturalized in United States without intention of residing.
    • Austria—Attorney-General Williams to Mr. Fish—Case of François A. Heinrich
    • Germany and Egypt—Mr. Beardsley to Mr. Fish, (telegram,) March 20, 1873. Case of Leopold Ungar
      • Mr. Fish to Mr. Beardsley, (telegram,) March 22, 1873—Same subject
      • Mr. Beardsley to Mr. Fish, March 24, 1873
      • Mr. Fish to Mr. Beardsley, April 28, 1873
      • Same to same, June 30, 1873
      • Mr. Schlozer to Mr. Fish, September 8, 1873
      • Mr. Fish to Mr. Schlozer, September 12, 1873
      • Mr. Schlozer to Mr. Fish, September 15, 1873
      • Mr. Davis to Mr. Schlozer, September 18, 1873
    • Netherlands—Mr. Davis to Attorney-General Hoar, May 11, 1869, asking his opinion respecting persons in the island of Curaçoa claiming American citizenship
      • Attorney-General Hoar to Mr. Fish, June 12, 1869—Reply to the foregoing
    • Spain—Consul Rail to Mr. Davis, February 22, 1870—Case of Felix Govin y Pinto
      • Mr. Davis to Mr. Fox, May 11, 1869—Cases of Valdesipno, Vingut, Suarez and Graragorri
    • Turkey—Mr. Fish to Mr. Boker, April 19, 1872—Persons residing in Turkey claiming to be naturalized American citizens
      • Mr. Boker to Mr. Fish, May 12, 1872—Same subject
      • Mr. Smithers to Mr. Hunter, October 19, 1872—Case of Hubert Reggio
      • Report of the examiner of claims on the case of Kindinicio
  • Part VI.—Correspondence between Great Britain and other countries.
    • Observations—Conflict between British statute law and common law of native allegiance in regard to children of British subjects born abroad
    • Instructions given as to their protection to Vice-Consul Dale, December 20, 1842
    • Argentine Republic—Buenos Ayres—Sir R. Peel’s statement in the House of Commons, 1845
      • As to British subjects wearing the badges of foreign citizenship
      • Conscription—Substitutes allowed to the sons of aliens
      • Correspondence between English and French governments as to protection to be accorded to the sons of their subjects born in Buenos Ayres—Anomaly of French law of nationality
      • Further as to conscription law of 1863 declaring all persons born in the confederation to be Argentines
    • Austria—Venetian cases in 1848—Citizenship acquired by domicile
    • Belgium—Rules as to protection to be afforded by Her Majesty’s ministers abroad to naturalized Englishmen
    • Brazil—Nationality and conscription cases
    • Mr. Spence—Brazilian law of nationality
    • China—Notification of 1868. Distinctive dress to be worn by British Chinese within the Chinese Empire
    • Colombia—New Granada—British protection not forfeited by entering foreign civil service—Panama riot claims—United States doctrine of domicile—Laws respecting foreigners
      • Señor Montoya—As to status of sons of a Colombian born in England
    • Denmark—Mr. Rainal’s case—Effect of taking a “borgerbrev”
    • France—Señor Braza’s children—Status of minor children of aliens born in France
      • Militia in British Guiana—French residents refused exemption
      • Julien Colonna Walewski, born in England of Polish parents
      • Answer returned to French government as to British law of native allegiance
      • British naturalization does not protect in native country—Mr. Casaubon—Conscription case—Domiciles
      • Mr. Zwinger—Marriage of a naturalized Swiss at British embassy
    • Germany—Frankfort—Mr. Grimm—Claim to British protection from English or colonial naturalization [Page 1182]
      • Hanse Towns—James Terry—Liability to conscription or sons of British subjects who have taken up Hamburgh citizenship—Messrs. C. and A. Bosdet
      • Saxony—Children born on board British vessels, or born without the Queen’s dominions, naturalized parents
      • Greece—Conscription of British subjects domiciled in Ionian Islands
        • Don Pacifico, a native of Gibraltar
      • Guatemala—Conscription—Sons of British subjects exempted up to twenty-one years of age, and can then provide substitutes
    • Italy. Sicilian nationality cases, 1837
      • Mr. Vertu, born in England of Sardinian parents
      • Messrs. Salteri and Sofio, Sicilian and Tuscan nationality
      • Philip Smith, 1866, provisions of new code as to the sons of domiciled aliens render them liable to conscription until they are 21
      • Liability of British subjects to forced loans on mines, &c., in which they are associated with Italians
    • Mexico. Protection to be given to naturalized British subjects
      • Law as to aliens holding land, and illegitimate children of aliens
      • Mr. Crowther not debarred from British protection by service in American Army
    • Montevideo. Instructions to Mr. Vice-Consul Dale
    • Netherlands. Liability to conscription of domiciled aliens, British subjects exempted; question as to the enrollment of aliens in British militia
    • Norway. Conscription of domiciled aliens
    • Persia. Protection to children born in British India of Persian parents; such cases must be treated exceptionally in countries like Persia
      • As to the protection of the grandson of a British-born subject
    • Peru. Registration of children of British-born subjects
    • Portugal. Children born in Portugal of British parents cannot be protected against Portuguese laws
    • Prussia. Status of British widows of foreigners
      • Mr. Consul Cronthwaite, liability to conscription of sons of aliens naturalized in Prussia
      • Answer returned to Prussian government as to British practice of enlistment on return to England of British subjects naturalized abroad
    • Russia. Madame von Essen, claim to a British passport as the widow of a naturalized Russian
      • Status of British Jews in Russia
      • As to children of British subjects who have been naturalized in order to carry on trade in Russia; case of Mr. Woolff, born in England of Hanoverian parents
    • Spain. Conscript on sons of domiciled aliens exempted; claims of grandsons of British subjects
    • Switzerland. Answer to Swiss government as to loss of English nationality
      • Conscription of British-born sons of naturalized Swiss
      • European Central Railway Company, as to British protection to companies whose direction is domiciled abroad; Mr. Roch, conscription case
    • Tunis. Grazia Abela Maltese turned Mahometan
    • Turkey. Protection to naturalized British subjects, and their agents
      • Cases of Messrs. Casavetti, Culimachi, Theologo, and Giro; protection of naturalized Turkish rajas in Egypt
      • Mr. J. Asian, Ionian nationality, Mr. S. Theologo’s agent at Galatz; Mr. Rodocanachi Scioan bankrupt; claim of a naturalized British subject resident abroad, to be registered as part owner of a British ship, Mr. T. G. Asian
      • Messrs. Cuppa’s claim to British nationality, as sons of a British naval officer; M. Mavrogodato’s case
    • Venezuela. Status of illegitimate children of British parents
      • Objection of Venezuelan government to persons born in Venezuela being regarded as British claimants
      • Venezuelan nationality law of 1863
• ADDENDA.
  • A. Attorney-General Cushing’s opinion on expatriation
  • B. (Omitted.)
  • C. Sir W. Scott’s judgment in the case of the Ann
  • D. Judgment of Weissembourg court in Zeiter’s case, (French conscription)
  • E. Attorney-General Bates’s opinion on citizenship
  • F. (Omitted.)
  • G. Memorandum on Prussian laws
  • H. Report by counsel to Vienna embassy on Austrian laws
  • I, K, L, M, and N, not reprinted.
  • APPENDIX No. II.—Disabilities of aliens. Reports from foreign states: Austria, Baden, Bavaria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Greece, Hanse Towns, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Prussia, Russia, Saxony, Sweden, Switzerland. [This appendix also contained a report from the United States for which there is substituted in this compilation—A. A report on the subject from the examiner of claims. B. Extracts from the Analytical Index to the Treaties of the United States, showing what disabilities are removed from aliens by treaty.] Würtemburg.
  • APPENDIX No. III.—Right of aliens to hold lands. Colonial and Indian laws. Memorandum by Mr. Abbott.
  • APPENDIX No. IV.—(Omitted.)
  • APPENDIX No. V.—Nationality of children born of alien parents. Austria, Baden, Bavaria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Greece, Hanse Towns, Hesse Darmstadt, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Prussia, Russia, Saxony, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland.
  • APPENDIX No. VI.—(Omitted.