I hereby empower Mr. Ferdinand Lassalle of Berlin, on my 
departure from that city, to vindicate my rights in the matter, now 
pending before the Royal Police Presidium, relating to the 
recognition of my status as a Prussian, restored to me under the 
Royal Amnesty of January 12 of this year or, alternatively, the 
possible granting of new naturalisation and permission to reside in 
Berlin. I further empower him to submit applications, to lodge 
petitions and appeals with the Royal Prussian Government as also 
with the German Federal Diet,**° and to avail himself of every 
right to which I am entitled, in the same measure to which I 
myself am entitled thereto. 

Dr Karl Marx 
Berlin, April 12, 1861 

Works, First Russian Edition, Vol. XXV, script 

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