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[Hand written in red ink top left of page: "60/159"]
[printed form, with handwritten amendments or insertions]
MEMORIAL, OR APPLICATION FOR A CETIFICATE OF NATURALIZATION
To His Excellency SIR WILLIAM THOMAS DENISON Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Knight
Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath distinguished Order of St . Michael & St George
Governor General in and over all Her Majesty's
Colonies of NEW SOUTH WALES, TASMANIA, VICTORIA,
SOUTH AUSTRALIA and WESTERN AUSTRALIA, and Cap-
tain General and Governor-in-Chief of the Territory Colony of
NEW SOUTH WALES Queensland, and its Dependencies, and Vice
Admiral of the same &c., &c., &c

1. ---- The Memorial of Joseph Nemeth
of Warwick, Darling Downs respectfully sheweth,
that your Memorialist is a native of * Pest[h?], Hungary
2.----That your Memorialist is Thirty Two years of age, and
is a Saddler by trade
3.----That your Memorialist arrived in the Colony of New South Wales, by the
ship Aurora in the year 1855
and has been resident therein since that date.
4.----That your Memorialist begs to refer your Excellency to the annexed
Certificate of character and of the correctness of the statements herein contained from
respectible persons to whom your Memorialist has been known since his arrival in the
Colony.
5.----That your Memorialist has purchased Land
in this Colony and wishes to reside in
it for the rest of his life; and that on these grounds your Memorialist is
desirous of availing himself of the privileges granted to Aliens by the Acts of Council,
11 Victoria, No. 39, and 17 Victoria, No. 8.
6.--- That your Memorialist therefore respectfully requests that your Excellency
may be pleased to grant to your Memorialist a Certificate under the provisions of the said
Act, conferring upon your Memorialist the privileges of a natural born British Subject,
with such restrictions as to your Excellency may seem meet.
And your Petitioner will ever pray.
Signature Joseph Nemeth
Date Warwick 3 Feby 1860
We, the undersigned, do hereby certify as to the correctness of the statements
contained in the subjoined Memorial, that we have known the Memorialist for the
the last three years, and believe him to be a person of
respectable character.
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George Lewis
Charles [Wagner?]
[footnote to form)