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My Lord: In obedience to the instructions contained in your lordship’s dispatch, marked circular, of the 11th instant, I have the honor to report that the general law of Russia in regard to aliens is, that all foreign subjects who have not taken an oath of allegiance to Russia in due form, are held to be aliens. The law of the of February, 1864, of which an abstract was inclosed in my dispatch of the 30th June last, stipulates:
“5. The allegiance (to Russia) when sworn to (by the subject of a foreign power) is [Page 1435] merely personal, and does not affect children, whether of age or minors, previously horn. Those born after the adoption of Russian nationality are acknowledged as Russians;
“12. Children of foreigners not Russian subjects, born and educated in Russia, or if born abroad, yet who have completed their education in a Russian upper or middle school, will be admitted to Russian allegiance, should they desire to be so, a year after they shall have obtained their majority; and, lastly,
13. The children of foreigners wishing to become Russian subjects will be admitted to Russian allegiance on the same terms as their parents.”
I have, &c.,
The Lord Stanley, M. P., &c., &c., &c..