ITM846732 Colonial Secretary's Inwards Correspondence - 1860, No. 151 - 499

for taking the liberty of asking if I could not obtain the advice of the Honorable Attorney General free of expense respecting the order of payment and the legality of recovering expenses-

The favour of your reply addressed for me at the St. Patricks Tavern Brisbane will oblige

Honorable Sirs Your ob''t ser't Wm Parrington

[Addressee lower page: Tthe Honorable The Colonial Secretary Queensland"]

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[in red overwritten] 60/158 9th February, 1860. P. Hoffman Appln for Certificate of Naturalization.

Warwick, 5th Jany 1860 The Honourable The Colonial Treasurer Sir, I beg to hand you enclosed application for a Certificate of Naturalization, and I pray that the same may be submitted to the consideration of his Excellency the Governor of Queensland. I have the honour to be Sir Your most obedient Servant Peter Hoffman

O.H.M.S The Honourable, The Colonial Treasurer [&c. &c. &c. ?] Brisbane Queensland

[Hand written in red ink top left of page: "60/158"] [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,l 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 Captain 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 Peter Hoffmann of Warwick, Darling Downs respectfully sheweth, that your Memorialist is a native of * Kaffertal, Baden 2.----That your Memorialist is Forty Eight years of age, and is a farmer by trade 3.----That your Memorialist arrived in the Colony of New South Wales, by the ship Helena in the year 1852 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 settle down in it for the rest of his life, among his children and their families; 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 Peter Hoffman Date Warwick 5th 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 last Four Years, and believe him to be a person of respectable character.

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