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ness was established and his domicile fixed
in a house purchased in Asia Minor, & which
for the last four years he has occupied with
his wife, who he married after his return to the
Ottoman Empire. It is also known that his
wife refused ther consent to go to the United
States, and that in 1893 this Legation refused
to him a passport because his application
showed no fixed intention to return to the
United States, and there resume the duties
of American Citizenship

For the causes above stated, and
for other facts not necessary to state, I have
decided that Adam Aivazian had for--
feited his American citizenship and my
protection, and had therefore no right to
be tried for the offense charged with to
before an American tribunal

The friendly solicitude of my