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

[In red ink] The Registrar of Supreme Court 7 March 1860 The Bench of Magistrates 6 March - Peter Hoffman

Queensland State Archives Colonial Secretary's Office Inwards Correspondence 01 Jan 1860 - 31 Dec 1860 S 5253 ITM846732 Dept No. 159 The legibility of this item may be reduced due to the following factors: Minimal Impression Faded Ink Iron Gall ink halo and lacing Discoloured paper Torn or creased pages

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60/159 9th February, 1860 J Nemeth Certificate of Naturalization

Warwick 3rd Feby 1860 The Honourable The Colonial Secretary

Sir, Enclosed I beg to hand you memorial for a Certificate of Naturalization which I pray be submitted to the consideration of His Excellency the Governor in due course. I have the honour to be Sir, Your most obedient Servant, Joseph Nemeth

O.H.M.S The Honourable The Colonial Treasurer [illeg words] Brisbane Queensland

[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 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 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. ​ George Lewis Charles [Wagner?] [footnote to form)