Winiwarter to The Lord Bloomfield, June 22, 1868

Your Excellency: In answer to the letter 21st instant your excellency addressed me, I have the honor of submitting to your excellency a memorandum containing the most important disabilities to which aliens residing in Austria are subject by Austrian law. I must state at the same time that no particular law exists by which all these disabilities could be ascertained.

There exist on the contrary many laws which prescribe that for certain professions, positions in life, and occupations, the Austrian citizenship is required. From these laws, which have been issued at very different periods, I have extracted the enumeration of cases in which aliens do not enjoy the same rights as the Austrian subjects themselves.

I might further state that my information holds only good for the so-called German provinces, that is to say, for the kingdoms and countries represented by the Reichsrath. With regard to Hungary I can only say that a new law regulating the position of the Hungarian citizen and of foreigners is to be discussed in the two houses, but has not yet passed.

I have, &c.,