No. 2043.]
Department of State, Washington,
August 20, 1867.
You are instructed to take such measures as you may think proper for
securing the early release of Mr. Costello.
Charles Francis Adams, Esq., &c., &c., &c.
Mr. Rogers to Mr. Seward
Sir: I have the honor to call the attention
of your department, to the fact that Mr. Augustine E. Costello, an
American citizen, was, on or about the 31st day of May last,
arrested at or near Dunganon, Ireland, and imprisoned, and is now
held and imprisoned under the “habeas corpus suspension act,” of the
British government.
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I transmit herewith a duly certified proof of the citizenship of the
gentleman named, and request that it may be transmitted to our
minister in London, and to the appropriate consul in Ireland with
directions for the immediate release of the prisoner.
I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of State.
[Untitled]
United States of America, State of New York, City and County of New
York:
Be it remembered that on the twentieth day of October, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six,
Augustine E. Costello appeared in the court of common pleas for
the city and county of New York, (the said court being a court
of record, having common law jurisdiction, and a clerk and
seal,) and applied to the said court to be admitted to become a
citizen of the United States of America, pursuant to the
directions of the act of Congress of the United States of
America, entitled “An act to establish a uniform rule of
naturalization, and to repeal the acts heretofore passed on that
subject,” passed April 14, 1802; and the act entitled “An act
for the regulation of seamen on board the public and private
vessels of the United States,” passed March 3, 1813; and the act
relative to evidence in cases of naturalization, passed March
22, 1816; and the act entitled “An act in further addition to an
act to establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and to repeal
the acts heretofore passed on that subject,” passed May 26,
1824; and an act entitled “An act to amend the acts concerning
naturalization,” passed May 24, 1828; and an act to amend the
act entitled “An act for the regulation of seamen on board the
public and private vessels of the United States,” passed June
26, 1848; and “An act to secure the rights of citizenship to the
children of citizens of the United States born out of the limits
thereof,” passed 10th February, 1854. And the said applicant
having thereupon produced to the court such evidence, made such
declaration and renunciation, and taken such oaths as are by the
said acts required, thereupon it was ordered by the said court
that the said applicant be admitted, and he was accordingly
admitted to be a citizen of the United States of America.
In testimony whereof, the; seal of
the said court is hereto affixed this
20th day of October, 1866, in the ninety-first year of
the independence of the United States.
By the court:
[seal.] NATH’L. P. JARETT, Jr., Clerk.
