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Vienna, December 8,
1868.
My Lord: Having addressed myself to
Baron Beust by note of the 22d ultimo, to
remind his excellency of the request addressed to him by Lord
Bloomfield in August last, to be informed as to the state of the
laws in Austria, relative to children born of alien parents in
this country, I have now the honor to transmit to your lordship
copy, with translation by Mr. Grosvenor, of a note which, in the
absence of Baron Beust, I have received
froni Baron Vesque.
Baron Vesque informs me that in the western
(Cisleithan) portion of the empire, all children born of foreign
parents are treated as aliens, illegitimate children following
the nationality of the mother. But Baron
Vesque promises that his reply to Lord
Bloomfleld’s first note will be more complete when he has
received the information as regards Hungarian law which he has
applied for to the Hungarian government.
I have, &c.,
The Lord Stanley, M. P., &c., &c., &c.
[Translation.]
In accordance with the wishes expressed by his excellency
Lord Bloomfield, &c., in his note of the 15th of August,
1867, and referred to by Mr. Bonar, &c., in his note of
the 22d of November last, the imperial royal ministry for
foreign affairs has the honor to inform Her Britannic
Majesty’s chargê d’affaires, that according to the laws in
force in the western half of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy,
children born of foreign parents within the limits of the
lands represented in the Austrian Reichsrath are treated as
aliens on account of their birth.
This rule applies as well to legitimate as to illegitimate
children, and in the case of the latter, the nationality of
the mother is decisive.
In order to furnish Her Majesty’s government with authentic
information respecting the provisions of the Hungarian
legislature as regards the nationality of children born of
foreign parents in Hungary, the imperial royal ministry for
foreign affairs addressed a memorandum on this subject to
the royal Hungarian ministry, but as no answer has up to
this date been received, this matter will now be brought
again to the recollection of the Hungarian ministry, and the
imperial royal ministry for foreign affairs will not fail to
communicate the desired information to Her Britannic
Majesty’s charge d’affaires so soon as they shall have
obtained it. The undersigned avails himself, &c.
Signed for the minister for foreign affairs,
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Vienna, December 21,
1868.
My Lord: With reference to my
dispatch to Lord Stanley, of the 8th instant, informing his
lordship, in reply to the queries addressed to me in his
dispatch No. 70, circular of the 11th of August, that
according to the law of the western (Cisleithan) portion of
the empire all children horn of foreign parents in Austria
are regarded as aliens, illegitimate children of aliens
being regarded to follow the nationality of the mother, I
have now the honor to inclose to your lordship a translation
of a note I have this day received from the imperial
chancery of State, stating that the laws of Hungary on that
point are identical with those of Cisleitha.
I have, &c.,
The Right Hon. Earl of
Clarendon, K. G., &c.,
&c., &c.
In sequel to the note of this department, of 30th of last
month, the ministry for foreign affairs has the honor to
inform Mr. Bonar, &c., that as regards the nationality
of illegitimate children born in this country of alien
parents the laws in force in the lands belonging to the
Hungarian Crown are identical with those of the western
portion of the Anstro-Hungarian monarchy.
The undersigned avails, &c.,
BIEGELEBEN.
Vienna, December 20,
1868.
