of No. 1 Maitland Park Road Haverstock Hill in the County of Middlessex, Doctor of 
Philosophy, do solemnly and sincerely declare as follows: 

That the statements contained in the paper writing now produced and shown to 
me marked with the letter “A” purporting to be a Memorial addressed by myself 
to The Right Honourable Richard Assheton Cross, Esq., M.P., Her Majesty’s Principal 
Secretary of State for the Home Department, praying for the Grant of a Certificate 
of Naturalisation under the provisions of the Act of Parliament made and passed in 
the 33rd year of the Reign of Her present Majesty Queen Victoria, Cap. 14 intituled 
“An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Legal Condition of Aliens and British 
Subjects”, are true as therein set forth. 

And I make this solemn Declaration conscientiously believing the same to be 
true and by virtue of the provisions of an Act made and passed in the 6th year of 
the Reign of His late Majesty King William IV intituled “An Act to repeal an Act 
of the present Session of Parliament intituled ‘An Act for the more effectual 
Abolition of Oaths and Affirmations taken and made in various Departments of the 
State, and to substitute Declarations in law thereof and for the more entire 
suppression of voluntary and contra-judicial Oaths and Affidavits and to make 


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other provisions for the abolition of unnecessary Oaths’”’. 


Declared at Number 82 Saint 
Martin’s Lane in the County 
of Middlessex this first day 
of August One thousand eight ‘ 
hancred and seventy four [signed] 
Karl Marx 
Before me 
Christ. R. Cuff, 
A London Commissioner to 
administer oaths in Chancery. 


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METROPOLITAN POLICE OFFICE 


Scotland Yard 


Detective Officer’s 
Special Report 


17th August 1874 


Carl Marx.— Naturalisation. 

With reference to the above I beg to report that he is the notorious German 
agitator, the head of the International Society, and an advocate of Communistic 
principles. This man has not been loyal to his own King and Country. 

The referees Messrs Seton, Mathesen, Manning, and Adcock are all British born 
subjects, and respectable householders. The statements made by them with 
reference to the time they have known the applicant are correct. 


W. Reimers— Sergeant 

J. Williams— Sergeant