His Excellency Baron von Zedlitz-Neukirch 


Your Excellency, 


I hereby respectfully inform you that, on the strength of the 
Royal amnesty, I have returned to Prussia from London, where I 
have lived as a political refugee since 1849, with the intention of 
taking up residence here in Berlin to begin with. 

In this connection I respectfully request Your Excellency: 

1. on the basis of the Royal order of the amnesty*”’ and the law 
of December 31, 1842 (Ges. S. 15-18)? to issue a confirmation of 
my reintegration into the status of a Prussian subject, for which Your 
Excellency is the competent authority under § 5 of the aforesaid 
law, and 

2. to be good enough to forward to me the certificate 
mentioned in § 8 of the law of December 31, 1842, on the 
reception of newly-arrived persons (Ges. S. 5), to the effect that 
I have reported my entry into this community to the Royal police 
authorities; and I declare with respect to the latter that, upon 
request, I can show that I have fully independent means of 
subsistence through contracts as co-editor of the New-York Tribune, 
published in New York, as well as otherwise. 

To begin with, I have taken up residence with a friend of mine, 


a “Gesetz liber die Erwerbung und den Verlust der Eigenschaft als Preussischer 
Unterthan ... Vom 31. Dezember 1842”, Gesetz-Sammlung für die Koniglichen 
Preussischen Staaten, Berlin, 1843, No. 2.— Ed. 


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Herr F. Lassalle, 13 Bellevuestr., and request that the two 
documents asked for be sent to me there. 


With best respects 
Your Excellency’s devoted 
Dr Karl Marx 


Berlin, March 19, 1861