No. 155.
Mr. Bayard
to Mr. Pendleton.
Washington, March 10, 1886.
Sir: Your dispatch No. 193, of the 8th ultimo, reporting your application to the foreign office on behalf of Mr. C. H. G. J. F. Burmeister, alleged to be a naturalized American citizen who had been ordered to leave Prussia by the 1st of February last, has been received and considered.
In reply, I have to observe that if the dates are correctly given in your dispatch, Mr. Burmeister quitted Germany in 1881, arriving in this country on the 19th day of August of that year, and was naturalized September 3, 1885, after a residence in the United States of only four years and fifteen days. His case would not therefore seem to be a proper one for presentation under the treaty, or for interference by the legation on the applicant’s behalf unless the presumption of fraud upon the court which naturalized him be dispelled.
I am, &c.,