To Dr. Marx, Esquire, in Cologne 

In reply to your submission of the 23rd of last month,* I have to 
inform you that I cannot consider it illegal that for the time being the 
Royal Government in Cologne has rejected your request to be 
accorded the status of Prussian, since you do not possess a right to 
naturalisation; for your status of Prussian became extinct under 
Paragraph 20 of the law of December 31, 1842, Statute Book 1843, 
p. 17, by your acceptance of the Deed of Release which you 
requested for the purpose of emigrating to North America in the 
year 1845,°* of which you also availed yourself when you settled 
abroad. A claim to readmission, however, is neither conferred on the 
emigrant by that law nor can it be derived from the decision of the 
Prussian Assembly of March 30 of this year nor from general legal 
principles. 


Berlin, September 12, 1848 


Minister of the Interior 

von Kühlwetter