No. 20.
Mr. Lawton
to Mr. Bayard.
Legation of
the United States,
Vienna, December 17, 1887.
(Received January 4, 1888.)
No. 21.]
Sir: Referring to my dispatch No. 19, under date of
the 10th instant, and its inclosure, wherein it was said that information
respecting the
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right to sue in forma pauperis in Hungary would be sent as soon as
a reply to an inquiry made on the subject had been received from the royal
Hungarian minister of justice, I now have the honor to transmit a
translation of a note just received from the ministry of foreign affairs
respecting the rights of foreigners to sue in forma
pauperis when residing in the countries of the Hungarian Crown.
I have, etc.,
[Inclosure in No.
29.—Translation.]
Baron Pasetti to
Mr. Lawton.
Sir: In pursuance of the note No. 28752–7,
under date of the 7th instant, the imperial and royal ministry of
foreign affairs has the honor to inform his excellency, General
Alexander R. Lawton, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of
the United States of America, that the laws which are in force in the
countries of the Hungarian Crown provide that foreigners are entitled to
the right of suing in forma pauperis when they
are subjects of a State which has concluded a treaty with the
Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, by which mutual privileges are secured, or in
the terms of paragraph 85 of the instructions given to the royal courts
of justice, if they are subjects of a state in which the same procedure
is observed towards Hungarian citizens.
The undersigned avails, etc.
For the minister of foreign affairs.
M.
Pasetti.
Vienna, December 14,
1887.