Extract from the Constitution of May 23, 1845.
Extract from the Constitution of May 23, 1845. [May 23, 1845.] Part I.—Article I. “Spaniards are— “1. All persons born within the dominions of Spain. “2. The children of a…
Extract from the Constitution of May 23, 1845. [May 23, 1845.] Part I.—Article I. “Spaniards are— “1. All persons born within the dominions of Spain. “2. The children of a…
laws of the two sicilies. [undated.] By the civil code of the Two Sicilies provision was made both for naturalization and expatriation. A royal decree of the 17th December, 1817,…
[Switzerland] [undated.] According to a paper quoted before the Aliens Committee “in some cantons the acts-of naturalization are granted by the legislature, in others by the executive government. In most…
[Belgium.] [undated.] In December, 1860, a case occurred at Brussels, (that of M. Ignatius Téleki,) in which various questions were put to Her Majesty’s government by Lord Howard de Walden,…
[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,…
[Russia.] [undated.] In 1857 Madame yon Essen applied to Lord Wodehouse, at St. Petersburgh, for a British passport, to enable her to be recognized as a British subject by the…
[Netherlands.] [undated.] In 1861 a case arose in which the Dutch government claimed the military service of Daniel Swan, a British subject born in Scotland of British parents and subsequently…
[Würtemberg] [undated.] naturalization. An alien must belong to a commune in order to have the rights of citizenship, unless he has been named to some public employment. expatriation. The rights…
[Bavaria.] [undated.] Mr. Attorney-General Black, in the case of Amthor, a Bavarian, naturalized in the United States, who returned to Bavaria, gave an opinion, in 1857, admitting the right to…
[Austria.] [undated.] During the Venetian insurrection in 1848 the provisional government claimed a right to exact payment to a forced loan from certain British and Ionian subjects, on the ground…