Office of the Historian

No. 463.
Mr. Coleman to Mr. Bayard.

Legation of the United States,
Berlin, June 22, 1888. (Received July 9.)
No. 631.]

Sir: I have the honor to inclose herewith a copy of the passport application of Charles Stein, which has been forwarded to this legation under cover of a communication from our consulate at Hamburg, with which several other passport applications were also inclosed. With respect to the application in question the above communication states:

Mr. Stein is in possession of a passport, although he has never taken out his second paper.

You will observe that in the passport application naturalization is not claimed, but rather distinctly negatived, and that the passport referred [Page 642] to, which is also inclosed herewith, refers to the present applicant as—

Charles Stein, who is lawfully liable to military duty in this country, and who has declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States, etc.

I can find no warrant in law for the issue by this legation of a regular passport to a person who has not been naturalized as a citizen of the United States, nor for the issue of a passport of the modified character of the inclosed to a person who has only declared his intention to become a citizen.

I respectfully ask that I may be instructed as to the disposition to be made of the inclosed application and passport of Mr. Stein, who has been informed, through the consulate at Hamburg, that the same have been transmitted to Washington for your decision, pending which I shall adopt such means as may be necessary and proper for his protection.

I have, etc.,

Chapman Coleman.
[Inclosure in No. 631.]

Passport of Charles Stein.

United States of America.

To all to whom these presents shall come, greeting.

I, the undersigned Secretary of State of the United States of America, hereby request all whom it may concern to permit safely and freely to pass Charles Stein, who is lawfully liable to military duty in this country, and who has declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States, and in case of need to give him all lawful aid and protection.

Given under my hand and the impression of the seal of the Department of State, at the city of Washington the 27th day of March, A. D. 1866, in the ninetieth year of the Independence of the United States.

No. 24717.
[seal.]
William H. Seward.

Description.—Age, thirty-eight years; stature, 5 feet 5 inches, English; forehead, full; eyes, gray; nose, pointed; mouth, ordinary; chin, oval; hair, light; complexion, healthy; face, round.

Signature of the bearer.

Charles Stein.
Renewed at the American legation at Berlin June 15, 1869, for one year from date.

Good for Russia.

Alexander Bliss,
Secretary of Legation.