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RB MSS M200b.3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 57.09.14Preferred Citation:
Henry Barkly to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1857-09-14. R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora, J.H. Voigt and Monika Wells (eds), Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, <https://vmcp.rbg.vic.gov.au/id//letters/1850-9/1857/57-09-14-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026
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MS is a certificate on parchment.
CERTIFICATE to NATURALIZE under the provisions of an ACT of the GOVERNOR and COUNCIL,
XI. VICTORIA, No. 39.
Whereas in accordance with the provisions of an Act of the Governor and Legislative
Council of New South Wales, passed in the Eleventh year of the Reign of Her Majesty,
Queen Victoria, intituled, "An Act to amend the Laws relating to Aliens within the
Colony of New South Wales," Ferdinand James Henry Mueller M.D. of Melbourne in the Colony of Victoria, Botanist has presented to me a Memorial, in the form and manner prescribed by the said recited
Act, praying that he may be naturalized; and whereas I have enquired into the truth
of the circumstances set forth in the said Memorial, Now I, the Governor of the Colony
of Victoria, do hereby certify that it has been established to my satisfaction that
the said Ferdinand James Henry Mueller is a Native of Mecklenburg Schwerin thirty two years of age, and that having arrived by the ship "Hero" in the year One thousand eight hundred and fifty two, he is now residing in the said Colony, and intending to purchase land and settle for life in the said Colony of Victoria he desires to obtain the advantages of said Act; and I do therefore grant to the said
Ferdinand James Henry Mueller (upon his taking before one of the Judges of the Supreme Court the Oath prescribed
by the said recited Act), all the rights and capacities within the said Colony of
Victoria, of a natural born British Subject, except the capacity of being a Member
of either the Executive or Legislative Council.
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2MS bears the seal of the Government of Victoria.
By His Excellency's Command,
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Signature faded, illegible.
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GIVEN under my Hand and Seal at Melbourne, in Victoria, aforesaid, this fourteenth day of September
One thousand eight hundred and fifty seven
Henry Barkly
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ENTERED on Record by me, in Register of Patents No.
3 Page 138
this
fourteenth
day of
September
One thousand eight hundred and
fifty seven
J. […]
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Signature faded, illegible.
for Chief Secretary and Registrar.
Note. —This Certificate is required to be enrolled in the Supreme Court, and the oath referred
to should be taken before one of the Judges within 60 days from its date. — See Sections
7 and 8 of the Act XI. Victoria, No. 39.
Enrolled in the Office of the Registrar of the Supreme Court of the Colony of Victoria
in Register of Certificates of Naturalization Book. C. Folio. 225. this Tenth day
of November 1857.
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Signature faded, illegible.
Acting Registrar.
The within named Ferdinand James Henry Mueller M.D. did on the Twenty ninth day of
October A.D. 1857 (being within sixty days from the day of the date of the within
certificate) take and subscribe as the oath required to be taken by persons being
Aliens to whom certificates of naturalization shall be granted under and by virtue
of the provisions of an act of the Governor and Legislative Council of New South Wales
made and passed in the eleventh year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria entituled
"an act to amend the Law relating to Aliens within the Colony of New South Wales"
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Dated the Twenty ninth day of October
6Twenty ninth and October here, and above, in a different hand, probably Stawell's.
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the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
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Before me
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and fifty seven
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William F. Stawell
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Signed by Stawell.
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Judge of the Supreme Court
of the Colony of Victoria