Indian migrant's application for domicile – memorandum

Memorandum for the Secretary, Department of External Affairs.

Transcript

[Handwritten note in red at top of page, partially obscured by torn paper:] [Illegible] Naik Mahomet

[Stamped in purple ink 'DEPARTMENT OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS', with reference number 'A03/7/64' handwritten inside stamp.]

[Printed letterhead:] COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA.

Customs and Excise Office,

Freemantle, 24th October, 1902.

In reply please quote

No 2271/02 [number handwritten.]

[Stamped in black ink: 'COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA', 'DEPARTMENT OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS', '3 NOV 02 AM'.]

The Secretary,

External Affairs,

Melbourne, V.

Memo:

Enclosed herewith please find an application and other papers &c. [etcetera] for a domicile certificate for an Indian named Naik Mahomet, which I am induced to sent forward on reconsideration of his case on account of his having free-held property at Coolgardie, but it will be seen that he has a wife and three childern [sic] in Karachi and does not even propose to bring them here; indeed I understand that the law of his country absolutely forbids his doing so.

[Handwritten signature of Clayton Mason]

COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS.

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